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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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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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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...
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SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954)
- Director
- MIZOGUCHI Kenji
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, HANAYAGI Yoshiaki, KAGAWA Kyoko
Winner of the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. Medieval Japan: a compassionate governor is exiled, his family sold into slavery. Raised by a brutal tax collector, the governor's son grows into a brute himself but a childhood memory forc...
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SEVEN SAMURAI (1954)
- Director
- KUROSAWA Akira
- Cast
- MIFUNE Toshiro, SHIMURA Takashi, KIMURA Isao
The masterpiece samurai period film by master filmmaker Kurosawa Akira. Upon painstaking research into the period, Kurosawa employed multiple cameras to simultaneously capture the unfolding true-to-life battles. The film captured the Silver Lion at t...