Minpei Tomimoto

左近捕物帖　鮮血の手型

Kenkichi Hara

Tsumasaburō Bandō, Kogiku Hanayagi

歌女おぼえ書

Hiroshi Shimizu

Yaeko Mizutani, Ken Uehara

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town, setting up street performances. A way of escape from this marginal existence arises when she gets the chance to move to tea merchant Hiramatsu’s place, where she is asked to teach his daughter to dance.

夜の女たち

Kenji Mizoguchi

Kinuyo Tanaka, Sanae Takasugi

Fusako, a drug dealer's young mistress in postwar Japan, loses her tenuous grasp on life upon learning about her lover's affair.

女優須磨子の恋

Kenji Mizoguchi

Kinuyo Tanaka, Sō Yamamura

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent.