Director

NISHIKAWA Katsumi

Cast

YOSHINAGA Sayuri, HAMADA Mitsuo, MOCHIZUKI Yuko

A heart-warming story which tells of the love between an 18-year-old country maiden, Moyoko, and an innocent 19-year-old farmer's son, Tokizo, who meet and fall in love during the autumn grass-mowing in the plains of North-eastern Japan. The two are...

Release Date

Oct, 25th, 1961

Director

ICHIKAWA Kon

Cast

KYO Machiko, KANO Junko, NAKADAI Tatsuya

Mr. Kenmochi, in his early sixties, is enjoying an obviously happy life in his Kyoto home. A man of artistic temperament, he is not merely an art-critic and an antiquarian, but also a connoisseur of beautiful things and a dilettante. He complains of...

Release Date

Jun, 23rd, 1959

Director

NOMURA Hiromasa

Cast

NAKAYAMA Shoji, KUBOTA Nahoko, NUMATA Yoichi

On board the ship in which Goro lnada a pro-boxer is returning to Japan he falls in love with Ayame, a popular singer. But their happiness is of short durations as the vessel is wrecked. When lnada awakens from the nightmare of shipwreck, he finds h...

Release Date

Jun, 8th, 1958

Director

AKASA Masaharu

Cast

OZAWA Eitaro

A documentary about Vietnam, its history and the present war. Here are scenes of the countryside, of Saigon, and many details of actual battles. The on-the-spot scenes show not only the actual fighting, but also incidents of alleged torture. The brut...

Release Date

May, 27th, 1965

Director

TOMIMOTO Sokichi

Cast

TAMIYA Jiro, KANO Junko, TAKAMATSU Hideo

Tokyo with its large modern buildings is filled with white-collar workers caught in the feverish rat race to climb the ladder of success. But one misstep, a few sweet stolen moments, and even the ablest of men can topple from the highest rung and bea...

Release Date

Aug, 19th, 1962

Director

TANAKA Shigeo

Cast

KANO Junko, KAWASAKI Keizo, UTSUI Ken

In the train to Tokyo, Asako becomes acquainted with Kashiwagi, a public prosecutor. The next day, Asako visits Kashiwagi at his home to ask him to help release lchijo, who is detained by the police under suspicion of dealing in opium. lchijo has a...

Release Date

Oct, 29th, 1961

Director

IMAI Tadashi

Cast

ATSUMI Kiyoshi, MORITSUGU Koji, BAISHO Chieko

Tamiji Nishiyama (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns from war with last messages from his fallen comrades to their wives, sweethearts and parents. The A-bomb had killed his family in Hiroshima and he lives in Tokyo with a whore (Mayumi Ogawa), who unknown to h...

Release Date

Apr, 29th, 1972

Director

OZAWA Keiichi

Cast

WATARI Tetsuya, MATSUBARA Chieko, UCHIDA Ryohei

Goro, a gangster, decides to quit his dangerous and ill-paying profession. He goes to live with his friends, Yukiko and Yumeko, but is soon drawn back into his old life. Yumeko is ill and to pay for her treatment Goro enters Kiuchi's gang. In line w...

Release Date

Apr, 28th, 1968

Director

TANAKA Tokuzo

Cast

YASUDA Michiyo, NAKAHARA Sanae, SHIMEGI Shigako

In 1785 the Hosho Temple in old Edo was burned to the ground. It was never rebuilt and an old story suggests the reason why. A nun named Shigetsuin (Shigako Shimegi) was in charge of this temple-convent, sent there as a punishment. Cousin to the Sho...

Release Date

Jan, 25th, 1969

Director

KOBAYASHI Masaki

Cast

KISHI Keiko, NAKADAI Tatsuya, KAWAZU Yusuke

Company president Kawahara's days are limited as he suffers from cancer. His estate is valued at three hundred million yen and he has no legitimate heir other than his wife. He entrusts his faithful employees with the task of locating three children...

Release Date

Feb, 17th, 1962

Director

KUROSAWA Akira

Cast

SHIMURA Takashi, ODAGIRI Miki, HIMORI Shinichi

Thrown into despair after his terminal cancer diagnosis, a city office bureaucrat fights to turn around his unremarkable life and do something of consequence with his remaining time. This was the first film Kurosawa co-wrote with famed scriptwriters ...

Release Date

Oct, 9th, 1952

Director

INOUE Yoshio

Cast

FUNAKOSHI Eiji, KATO Haruko, KIRITACHI Harumi

Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears. When found, it appears he has a secret and the girl goes with him to spend a week-end at...

Release Date

Aug, 22nd, 1964

Director

ICHIMURA Hirokazu

Cast

KUWANO Miyuki, TAKAMINE Mieko, IWASHITA Shima

A girl lives with her mother in Tokyo. She meets a young man and it seems they will be happy together until he discovers that her mother is having an affair with a married man. He does not mind, but his mother does, and forbids such a marriage. The g...

Release Date

Apr, 1st, 1966

Director

SAITO Kosei

Cast

MATSUBARA Chieko, YAMAMOTO Yoko, KAJI Meiko

Ayako (Chieko Matsubara), a pretty girl in a small country town yearns to marry Nishida. She falls into depths of despair, however, when she loses her chastity Eiji who assaults her and Nishida abandons her. A year later, she finds a job at a Shinju...

Release Date

Apr, 24th, 1971

Director

SAITO Koichi

Cast

NAKAYAMA Jin, ASO Reiko, FUJI Manami

No one knows quite why he is called 'Whispering Joe.' He is a good-looking young man, with no parents, no job, no real interests - the only thing known about him is that he would like to go away, immigrate, perhaps to Brazil. A girl friend, Kanako, ...

Release Date

Dec, 1st, 1967

Director

MASUMURA Yasuzo

Cast

SUGIMURA Haruko, YAMAMOTO Fujiko, WAKAO Ayako

Fusa Yoshino's only ambition in life is to care for her ancestral estate on the outskirts of Tokyo. By her first husband she has a lovely daughter name Kikue, while from her deceased second husband she has another daughter, named Keiko, who is just a...

Release Date

Aug, 12th, 1959