Kyoko Aoi

月夜の渡り鳥

Hirokazu Ichimura

Yukio Hashi, Chieko Baisho

A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.

三匹の侍

Hideo Gosha

Tetsurō Tamba, Isamu Nagato

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.

Akitsu Springs

Yoshishige Yoshida

Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.

Assassination

Masahiro Shinoda

Tetsurō Tamba, Eiji Okada

Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.

下町の太陽

Yoji Yamada

Chieko Baisho, Homare Suguro

A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.

Tokyo Bay

Yoshitaro Nomura

Jirô Ishizaki, Hiromi Sakaki

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling investigation through Tokyo's underworld.

猟銃

Heinosuke Gosho

Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry.

二階の他人

Yoji Yamada

Kazuya Kosaka, Kyoko Aoi

After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon discover the woe of being landlords.

望郷と掟

Yoshitaro Nomura

Noboru Andô, Kiyoshi Atsumi

Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy and he tracks down his prey in Kobe.

ハイウェイの王様

Hirokazu Ichimura

Kyoko Aoi, Mariko Kaga