Tamao Nakamura

女狐風呂

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Raizō Ichikawa, Michiko Saga

あばれ鳶

Kazuo Mori

Raizō Ichikawa, Shinobu Araki

赤胴鈴之助 一本足の魔人

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Shoji Umewaka, Tamao Nakamura

The magical swordsman battles a gang of cutthroats, who are led by a peg-legged villain.

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

Masaki Kobayashi

Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.

Kirare Yosaburô

Daisuke Itō

Raizō Ichikawa, Tamao Nakamura

The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress of the gang boss. Despite the physical and emotional scars he now carries with him, Yosaburo falls for a young noblewoman. The rest of the film follows the two as they fend off attacks from gangs and the police.

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Ayako Wakao, Junichiro Yamashita

Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.

濡れ髪剣法

Bin Kato

Raizō Ichikawa, Kaoru Yachigusa

新・平家物語

Kenji Mizoguchi

Raizō Ichikawa, Yoshiko Kuga

Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But because the high courtiers dislike career soldiers gaining power and influence, they ignore the will of ex-Emperor Toba and refuse to reward the captain. Reward recommender Lord Tokinobu is punished, and the captain sends his son Kiyomori to the Lord's residence, where he falls in love with Tokiko, the Lord's daughter. Meanwhile, Kiyomori finds out that he is possibly the ex-Emperor's son... Written by L.H. Wong

大阪物語

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Raizō Ichikawa, Shintarō Katsu

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.

かげろう侍

Kazuo Ikehiro

Raizō Ichikawa, Reiko Fujiwara

金環蝕

Satsuo Yamamoto

Tatsuya Nakadai, Jūkichi Uno

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.

The Notorious Man's Return

Kazuo Mori

Shintarō Katsu, Jirō Tamiya

1962 film

Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut

Katsuhiko Tasaka

Shintarō Katsu, Tamao Nakamura

The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develop his own style.

炎上

Kon Ichikawa

Raizō Ichikawa, Tatsuya Nakadai

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.

赤胴鈴之助　月夜の怪人

Bin Kato

Shoji Umewaka, Narutoshi Hayashi

In the first two films we learn the character's origins, including his childhood and how he learned his fighting skills. Later, he must face his friend, who has joined a gang of criminals.

中山七里

Kazuo Ikehiro

Raizō Ichikawa, Tamao Nakamura

When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and grief-stricken by the fact that Oshima committed suicide. Going underground in the gambling world, perpetually hiding from the law, Masa eventually meets a young woman named Onaka, who looks exactly like Oshima. Tales having two look-alike heroines are a commonplace in Japanese period films, a plot affectation inherited from the kabuki theater. Based on a novel by Shin Hasegawa, Nakayama shichiri was already twice filmed in 1930, one version directed by Namio Ochiai, and from which less than 40 minutes survive, the other directed by Kyotaro Namiki. Both are silent films, preserved by the Makino film institute.