Kikuko Hanaoka

Jônetsu - Ra pashion

Hiroshi Shimizu

Hideo Fujino, Kikuko Hanaoka

Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.

おもかげの街

Ryō Hagiwara

Kazuo Hasegawa, Takako Irie

A 1942 film.

森繁のデマカセ紳士

Kunio Watanabe

Hisaya Morishige, Junko Ebata

Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.

残菊物語

Kenji Mizoguchi

Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kōkichi Takada

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.

麗人

Yasujirō Shimazu

Sumiko Kurishima, Yukichi Iwata

Немой фильм «Прекрасная» (иной вариант перевода — «Красавица») является примером жанра кэйко-эйга (так называемых «тенденциозных фильмов») левого толка и продвигает социальную критику через несправедливые переживания женщины.

野戦看護婦

Hiromasa Nomura

Yoko Minakaze, Shoji Nakayama

Japanese war drama.

Lord for a Night

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Kazuo Hasegawa, Hideko Takamine

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

「粘土のお面」より かあちゃん

Nobuo Nakagawa

Yūnosuke Itō, Yūko Mochizuki

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.

もぐら横丁

Hiroshi Shimizu

Minoru Chiaki, Shigeru Amachi

恋文

Kinuyo Tanaka

Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

何故彼女等はそうなったか

Hiroshi Shimizu

Kyōko Kagawa, Toyo Takahashi

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

靑春の夢いまいづこ

Yasujirō Ozu

Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

東海道四谷怪談

Nobuo Nakagawa

Shigeru Amachi, Noriko Kitazawa

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

銀座化粧

Mikio Naruse

Kinuyo Tanaka, Ranko Hanai

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

Yotsuya Kaidan

Masaki Mōri

Tomisaburō Wakayama, Akemi Tsukushi

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famous ghost stories throughout Japan.

恋の花咲く 伊豆の踊子

Heinosuke Gosho

Kinuyo Tanaka, Den Obinata

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl. The student finds the naïve girl attractive even though he eventually has to part with the family after spending memorable time together.