Mikio Naruse, Heihachirô Ôkawa, Masako Tsutsumi, Ryuko Umezono, Hiroshi Uruki, Roppa Furukawa, Kohei Ima, Ryûji Nagami

Saakasu goningumi is a movie starring Masako Tsutsumi, Ryuko Umezono, and Heihachirô Ôkawa. Five poor musicians make up the worst traveling brass band in Japan. For a few days they hook up with an awful circus whose male performers...

Toshirô Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Mikio Naruse, Keiju Kobayashi, Toshirô Ide, Akemi Negishi

Kazuo Hasegawa, Mikio Naruse, Isuzu Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara, Matsutarô Kawaguchi, Heihachirô Ôkawa

Tsuruhachi Tsurujirô is a movie starring Kazuo Hasegawa, Isuzu Yamada, and Kamatari Fujiwara. Mr. Tsurujiro is a Japanese folk singer assisted by Ms. Tsuruhachi on the shamisen. The pair is popular, but he nitpicks often on her...

Hideko Takamine, Mikio Naruse, Fumiko Hayashi, Keiju Kobayashi, Akira Takarada, Toshirô Ide, Sumie Tanaka, Daisuke Katô, Kazuo Kikuta

Hôrô-ki is a movie starring Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, and Daisuke Katô. Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working in poverty while being abused by her boyfriend all the while hoping to break...

Nobuko Otowa, Mikio Naruse, Ryôzô Kasahara, Kamatari Fujiwara, Jun Fujimaki, Yôsuke Natsuki

Aki tachinu is a movie starring Nobuko Otowa, Jun Fujimaki, and Kamatari Fujiwara. Single mum (father of child dead) from the country with 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family - wife, male,...

Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Mihashi, Mikio Naruse, Keiju Kobayashi, Toshirô Ide, Mitsukô Kusabue, Edouard Atiyah

Onna no naka ni iru tanin is a movie starring Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, and Mitsukô Kusabue. Two friends meet in a bar. Later that night, one friend's flirtatious wife is reportedly in an accident. The other friend doesn't...

Mikio Naruse, Musei Tokugawa, Noriko Honma, Akira Ubukata, Kaoru Itô, Nao Tokugawa

Hataraku ikka is a movie starring Musei Tokugawa, Noriko Honma, and Akira Ubukata. Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and...

Shinobu Hashimoto, Masayuki Mori, Mikio Naruse, Akira Takarada, Ken Yamauchi, Yoshiko Kôda, Nobuo Ishimori

Mikio Naruse, Fumiko Hayashi, Toshirô Ide, Haruko Sugimura, Ken Uehara, Sumie Tanaka, Chikako Hosokawa, Sadako Sawamura

Bangiku is a movie starring Haruko Sugimura, Ken Uehara, and Sadako Sawamura. What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, spending...

Mikio Naruse, Kamatari Fujiwara, Sachiko Chiba, Toshiko Itô, Kô Mihashi

Uwasa no musume is a movie starring Sachiko Chiba, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Toshiko Itô. The suitor rejects elder sister Kunie but likes Kimoko, the younger one. Their father and his mistress have separate shops. Kimiko suddenly...

Machiko Kyô, Yoshiko Kuga, Masayuki Mori, Mikio Naruse, Yôko Mizuki, Yûji Hori, Saisei Murô

Ani imôto is a movie starring Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, and Yoshiko Kuga. In Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruse's adaptation of an oft-filmed popular novel by Saisei Murô, the eldest daughter (Machiko Kyô) of a...

Hideko Takamine, Mikio Naruse, Fumiko Hayashi, Keiju Kobayashi, Akira Takarada, Toshirô Ide, Sumie Tanaka, Daisuke Katô, Kazuo Kikuta

Hôrô-ki is a movie starring Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, and Daisuke Katô. Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working in poverty while being abused by her boyfriend all the while hoping to break...

Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ryûzô Kikushima, Masayuki Mori, Mikio Naruse, Reiko Dan

Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki is a movie starring Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, and Masayuki Mori. A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her...

Yasunari Kawabata, Yukiko Shimazaki, Mikio Naruse, Fumiko Hayashi, Toshirô Ide, Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Yôko Sugi, Sumie Tanaka

Meshi is a movie starring Ken Uehara, Setsuko Hara, and Yukiko Shimazaki. Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Mikio Naruse, Reikichi Kawamura, Akio Isono, Sumiko Mizukubo

Kimi to wakarete is a movie starring Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Akio Isono, and Sumiko Mizukubo. Two Geisha with a connection to a young man deal with life's hardships.

Yasunari Kawabata, Sô Yamamura, Mikio Naruse, Yôko Mizuki, Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Yôko Sugi

Yama no oto is a movie starring Setsuko Hara, Sô Yamamura, and Ken Uehara. An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Zenzô Matsuyama, Tatsuya Mihashi, Mikio Naruse, Yôko Tsukasa, Akira Takarada, Isuzu Yamada, Yûzô Kawashima, Toshirô Ide

Yoru no nagare is a movie starring Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, and Akira Takarada. Aya is the Madame who runs a restaurant where Geishas meet with their customers to eat, drink, listen to music and sing.

Michiyo Aratama, Shinobu Hashimoto, Chikage Awashima, Mikio Naruse, Kumi Mizuno, Yôko Tsukasa, Tsutou Wada

Iwashigumo is a movie starring Chikage Awashima, Michiyo Aratama, and Kumi Mizuno. A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

Hideko Takamine, Isao Yamagata, Mariko Okada, Masayuki Mori, Mikio Naruse, Fumiko Hayashi, Yôko Mizuki

Ukigumo is a movie starring Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, and Mariko Okada. A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo.