Murasaki Fujima

民謡の旅　秋田おばこ

Kunio Watanabe

Hibari Misora, Eiko Namiki

A cosmetics saleswoman falls for a rival executive.

だれの椅子？

Kenjiro Morinaga

Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tetsuya Watari

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.

ひばりの母恋いギター

Kiyoshi Saeki

Hibari Misora, Eitarō Shindō

Kimie, a traveling guitarist, performs at various inns at help out her sickly mother. One night while out with her mother, Otoshi, Kimie unexpectedly sees her father, who had abandoned the family 20 years ago. Her hopes for a happy reunion are quickly dashed as her father, having married into a wealthy family, wants nothing to do with her. Will Kimie be able to regain her father’s love?

The Approach of Autumn

Mikio Naruse

Nobuko Otowa, Yōsuke Natsuki

A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery store, and works a local inn. The boy befriends a girl, the daughter of the innkeeper...

The Other Woman

Mikio Naruse

Hideko Takamine, Chikage Awashima

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Ginza aunt is really their mother.

東京の恋人

Yasuki Chiba

Setsuko Hara, Toshirō Mifune

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.

母の旅路

Hiroshi Shimizu

Tadashi Date, Murasaki Fujima

坊っちゃん

Seiji Maruyama

Ryō Ikebe, Mariko Okada

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

日本侠客伝

Masahiro Makino

Ken Takakura, Hiroki Matsukata

The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamasa falls ill.

眠狂四郎無頼控 魔剣地獄

Masazumi Kawanishi

Koji Tsuruta, Michiyo Kogure

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

今日もまたかくてありなん

Keisuke Kinoshita

Teiji Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man...

Third Class Executives

Masahisa Sunohara, Kajirō Yamamoto

Reikichi Kawamura, Sadako Sawamura

1950s Japanese comedy.

惜春鳥

Keisuke Kinoshita

Keiji Sada, Ineko Arima

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

極道の妻たち

Hideo Gosha

Shima Iwashita, Rino Katase

While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him. The two sisters, united by blood ties but married to enemy yakuzas, will ultimately have to decide whose side they’re on.

台風騒動記

Satsuo Yamamoto

Keiji Sada, Kenji Sugawara

Shochiku Production on typhoon

無宿 やどなし

Kōichi Saitō

Shintarō Katsu, Ken Takakura

The Homeless is a picaresque tale in the truest sense of the word. Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the acquaintance of a would-be prostitute with a childlike mind and serious problems with the yakuza. They help her escape from the mob-infested cathouse and decide to guide her on her quest for sunken contraband somewhere off the coast, whose location only she knows, but which the yakuza are very eager to learn about. It is a remake of the French film The Last Adventure (1967).