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Juvenile Jungle aka Crazed Fruit (1956)
- Director
- NAKAHIRA Ko
- Cast
- ISHIHARA Yujiro, TSUGAWA Masahiko, KITAHARA Mie
While spending the summer at their Shonan holiday villa, two brothers lust over and fall in love with the same woman, setting them on a one-way course to destruction. Characterized by its bold editing style and cutting-edge visual flair, Nakahira's m...
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A Cheerful Girl (1957)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, KAWASAKI Keizo, SUGAWARA Kenji
In this lighthearted work from Masumura's early period, protagonist Yuko comes to Tokyo to find her mother after learning about her from her critically ill grandmother. The film, which unfolds beneath a cloudless blue sky, remains remarkably unsentim...
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A Room for Rent (1959)
- Director
- KAWASHIMA Yuzo
- Cast
- Frankie SAKAI, AWASHIMA Chikage, KATSURA Kokinji
A quick-moving yarn that follows the exploits of a zany cast of characters living in an old Osaka boarding house. The film's unique stylings are said to have angered IBUSE Masuji, the author of the novel it was originally based on; Kawashima, meanwhi...
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Conflagration (1958)
- Director
- ICHIKAWA Kon
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, NAKAMURA Ganjiro, NAKADAI Tatsuya
A young Buddhist acolyte fanatically obsessed with Shukakuji Temple despairs at how its beauty is being tarnished by worldly corruption and decides to set it ablaze. The film adapts MISHIMA Yukio's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, with Ichikawa usi...
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The Burmese Harp (1956)
- Director
- ICHIKAWA Kon
- Cast
- MIKUNI Rentaro, YASUI Shoji, MIHASHI Tatsuya
At the close of the war in Burma, Corporal Mizushima is tasked with persuading a holed-up group of soldiers who are still fighting to surrender. After sustaining injuries when caught in crossfire, he is rescued by a Burmese monk, whereupon he resolve...
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Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
- Director
- KINOSHITA Keisuke
- Cast
- TAKAMINE Hideko, TSUKIOKA Yumeji, TAMURA Takahiro
A chronicle of the emotional bond between a young schoolteacher – a new arrival to the island of Shodoshima – and her twelve students, set against the transitional period of the wartime years. Kinoshita was inspired by Jean Renoir's The River (1951) ...
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Farewell to Spring (1959)
- Director
- KINOSHITA Keisuke
- Cast
- TSUGAWA Masahiko, YAMAMOTO Toyozo, KAWAZU Yusuke
Five childhood best friends reunite early one spring in their hometown of Aizu-Wakamatsu, only to find themselves shaken by the discovery that they are not quite as similar as they once were. For this film focused on youth, Kinoshita called on a tale...
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A Last Note (1995)
- Director
- SHINDO Kaneto
- Cast
- SUGIMURA Haruko, OTOWA Nobuko, ASAGIRI Kyoko
Like many works of the director's later period, A Last Note grapples with the theme of aging. It focuses on famed (fictional) actor Yoko, whose retreat to her rural summer residence is interrupted by a visit from Tomie, an old friend and former actor...
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Ikiru (1952)
- 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 ...
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I Live in Fear (1955)
- Director
- KUROSAWA Akira
- Cast
- MIFUNE Toshiro, MIYOSHI Eiko, SHIMURA Takashi
Convinced that a nuclear war is imminent, an elderly man decides to uproot his entire family and emigrate to Brazil. When they object to his plan, it sends him spiraling deeper and deeper into obsession. Kurosawa reportedly got the idea for the story...
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Forever a Woman aka The Eternal Breasts (1955)
- Director
- TANAKA Kinuyo
- Cast
- TSUKIOKA Yumeji, HAYAMA Ryoji, MORI Masayuki
Tanaka's first directorial work on which she collaborated with a female scriptwriter tells the story of the life of tanka poet NAKAJO Fumiko. Betrayed by her husband, Fumiko moves back to her mother's home together with her daughter. Though determine...
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The Moon Has Risen (1955)
- Director
- TANAKA Kinuyo
- Cast
- KITAHARA Mie, SUGI Yoko, YASUI Shoji
Setsuko plays the role of overzealous matchmaker for her elder sister, but what about when it comes to her own budding romance? Featuring a screenplay by SAITO Ryosuke and OZU Yasujiro, Tanaka's sophomore film about three sisters' love lives skillful...
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Lightning (1952)
- Director
- NARUSE Mikio
- Cast
- TAKAMINE Hideko, MURATA Chieko, MIURA Mitsuko
A screen adaptation by TANAKA Sumie of a HAYASHI Fumiko novel. Frustrated by growing tensions at home – such as her elder sister Mitsuko's being approached by her deceased husband's mistress to provide child support for the child he secretly fathered...
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The Ghost Story of Yotsuya (1959)
- Director
- NAKAGAWA Nobuo
- Cast
- AMACHI Shigeru, WAKASUGI Katsuko, EMI Shuntaro
Based on a kabuki play by TSURUYA Nanboku. After he is witnessed carrying out a murder, samurai Iemon falls prey to the manipulations of Naosuke. He later drives his wife Oiwa to suicide, incurring the wrath of her vengeful ghost. Nakagawa's bold tra...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953)
- Director
- GOSHO Heinosuke
- Cast
- UEHARA Ken, TANAKA Kinuyo, AKUTAGAWA Hiroshi
An adaptation of a short story by SHIINA Rinzo. When a middle-aged couple living in the lower-class outskirts of Tokyo find an abandoned child, it ends up sparking a conflict that engulfs the young boarders living above them. The film takes its name ...
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The Yellow Crow (1957)
- Director
- GOSHO Heinosuke
- Cast
- AWASHIMA Chikage, ITO Yunosuke, TANAKA Kinuyo
Hoping to bring pointed significance to the use of color for what was to be his first color film, Gosho turned to the world of child psychology. The film tells the story of Kiyoshi, a young boy emotionally estranged from his parents after his father'...
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A Story from Chikamatsu (1954)
- Director
- MIZOGUCHI Kenji
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Kazuo, KAGAWA Kyoko, MINAMIDA Yoko
Mizoguchi's quintessential tale of tragic love, based on a classic play by Edo-period dramatist CHIKAMATSU Monzaemon. In seventeenth-century Kyoto, Mohei, the apprentice of a wealthy scroll maker, forges a receipt to help his master's young wife, Osa...
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The Lower Depth (1957)
- Director
- KUROSAWA Akira
- Cast
- MIFUNE Toshiro, YAMADA Isuzu, KAGAWA Kyoko
Maxim Gorky's play of the same name is the basis for this solid drama in which the story has been transplanted to an Edo tenement house. It is written, directed, and produced by Kurosawa Akira. Dwelling in a tenement house at the end of the Edo peri...
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A Cat And Two Women (1956)
- Director
- TOYODA Shiro
- Cast
- MORISHIGE Hisaya, KAGAWA Kyoko, YAMADA Isuzu
The essence of Tanizaki Junichiro's literature is expressed in this poetic masterpiece. It depicts a man with an unusual love for his cat, as well as the desires and jealousies of women. Shozo is an undependable man who runs a small hardware store i...
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Love Letter (1953)
- Director
- TANAKA Kinuyo
- Cast
- MORI Masayuki, KUGA Yoshiko, KAGAWA Kyoko
Directorial debut for celebrated actress Tanaka Kinuyo. All-star cast depicts the sorrowful romance of a couple at the mercy of fate. Script by Kinoshita Keisuke. Reikichi has been searching for his beloved Michiko for five years since the end of th...
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Ginza Cosmetics (1951)
- Director
- NARUSE Mikio
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, HORI Yuji, KAGAWA Kyoko
Lyrical film from Naruse Mikio that poignantly portrays women working as hostesses in Ginza still recovering from the war. Tanaka Kiniyo performs brilliantly as both "woman" and "mother." Yukiko works as a hostess in Ginza while raising the son she ...
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A HOUSE OF GEISHA (1956)
- Director
- NARUSE Mikio
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, YAMADA Isuzu, TAKAMINE Hideko
Naruse Mikio helmed this adaptation of Koda Aya's same-named novel. Repast and Late Chrysanthemums screenplay writer Tanaka Sumie coauthored the script with Ide Toshiro. Depicts the tragicomedy of women gathered in the Yanagibashi entertainment distr...
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The Life of Oharu (1952)
- Director
- MIZOGUCHI Kenji
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, YAMANE Hisako, MIFUNE Toshiro
Mizoguchi Kenji's adaptation of a literary classic won the International Award at the 13th Venice International Film Festival. Oharu (Tanaka Kuniyo) is a star-crossed woman destroyed by men, both hateful and beloved. One freezing winter morning at d...
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MUNEKATA SISTERS (1950)
- Director
- OZU Yasujiro
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, TAKAMINE Hideko, UEHARA Ken
Melodrama helmed by Ozu Yasujiro that captures Japanese beauty while depicting pained yet beautiful human events. First film directed by Ozu away from Shochiku. The Munekata sisters are Setsuko (Tanaka Kinuyo) and Mariko (Takamine Hideko). Their fa...
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HER MOTHER'S PROFESSION (1954)
- Director
- MIZOGUCHI Kenji
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, OTANI Tomoemon, KUGA Yoshiko
Yukio's lover rejects her when he discovers her mother runs a geisha house. Following a failed suicide attempt, Yukiko returns to her mother, and despises everything connected with the geisha house including her mother's lover. But gradually Yukiko c...
