Fusako Maki

待ちぼうけの女

Masahiro Makino

Kyoko Asagiri, Shinichi Himori

Waiting woman

Pale Flower

Masahiro Shinoda

Ryō Ikebe, Mariko Kaga

Muraki, a hardboiled Yakuza gangster, has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder. Revisiting his old gambling haunts, he meets Saeko, a striking young upper-class woman who is out seeking thrills, and whose presence adds spice to the staid masculine underworld rituals. Muraki becomes her mentor while simultaneously coping with the shifts of power that have affected the gangs while he was interred. When he notices a rogue, drug-addicted young punk hanging around the gambling dens, he realizes that Saeko's insatiable lust for intense pleasures may be leading her to self-destruction.

The Inheritance

Masaki Kobayashi

Keiko Kishi, Tatsuya Nakadai

On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown to his family and colleagues. A bevy of lawyers and associates scheme to procure the money for themselves, enlisting the aid of impostors and blackmail.

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.

縮図

Kaneto Shindō

Nobuko Otowa, Sumiko Hidaka

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.

按摩と女

Hiroshi Shimizu

Mieko Takamine, Shin Tokudaiji

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and family at a remote resort in the mountains. With delicate and surprising humor, Hiroshi Shimizu paints a timeless portrait of loneliness and the human need to connect.

ペン偽らず　暴力の街

Satsuo Yamamoto

Kenzo Asada, Tōru Abe

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

暖流

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Shin Saburi, Mitsuko Mito

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse.

花形選手

Hiroshi Shimizu

Shūji Sano, Shinichi Himori

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman who may be a prostitute.

花咲く港

Keisuke Kinoshita

Eitarō Ozawa, Ken Uehara

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience. Keisuke Kinoshita’s directorial debut is a breezy, warmhearted, and often very funny crowd-pleaser that’s a testament to the filmmaker’s faith in people.

女舞

Hideo Oba

Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a classical theatre student in the hope that the latter will marry Senya..

秘話ノルマントン号事件　仮面の舞踏

Keisuke Sasaki

Shin Saburi, Toshiko Kawano

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

春の若草

Kenkichi Hara

Chishū Ryū, Yumeji Tsukioka

許された一夜

Keisuke Sasaki

Michiyo Kogure, Ichirô Shimizu

第二の出発

Iseo Hirukawa

Fumiko Katsuragi, Yasumi Hara