Noriko Hodaka

真昼の罠

Sôkichi Tomimoto

Jirō Tamiya, Junko Kano

みだれ髪

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Michiko Ai, Noriko Hodaka

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

螢の光

Kazuo Mori

Kenji Sugawara, Ayako Wakao

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

赤線の灯は消えず

Shigeo Tanaka

Machiko Kyō, Hitomi Nozoe

女は二度生まれる

Yūzō Kawashima

Ayako Wakao, Jun Fujimaki

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.

青空娘

Yasuzō Masumura

Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.

踊子

Hiroshi Shimizu

Chikage Awashima, Machiko Kyō

In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their apartment and begins to stir things up with her riotousness.

母の旅路

Hiroshi Shimizu

Tadashi Date, Murasaki Fujima

黒の超特急

Yasuzō Masumura

Jirō Tamiya, Yukiko Fuji

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired.

細雪

Koji Shima

Yukiko Todoroki, Machiko Kyō

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

おとうと

Kon Ichikawa

Keiko Kishi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.

Uta andon

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Raizō Ichikawa, Mayumi Kurata

夜の蝶

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Machiko Kyō, Fujiko Yamamoto

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

その夜は忘れない

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Ayako Wakao, Jirō Tamiya

Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on.

眠狂四郎魔性剣

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Raizō Ichikawa, Michiko Saga

Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot that might topple -- or save -- a mighty Clan, and while the swords of some angry samurai may not cause Kyoshiro much trouble, the deadly wiles of two women may be more difficult to survive!

傷だらけの山河

Satsuo Yamamoto

Sō Yamamura, Ayako Wakao

The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.