Kazuko Inano

"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter's marriage. The play was...

Release : 1963.03.21
Popularity : 1.136

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He...

Release : 1973.08.11
Popularity : 10.16

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second...

Release : 1969.03.13
Popularity : 5.532

Release : 1969.04.12
Popularity : 0.575

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.

Release : 1979.06.03
Popularity : 4.426

About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to...

Release : 1969.06.28
Popularity : 2.785

In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid...

Release : 1971.11.17
Popularity : 10.728

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

Release : 1962.09.29
Popularity : 17.231

The story of a selfless mother and her family throughout the decades, from th 1920's to the 1960's.

Release : 1966.09.30
Popularity : 1.161

Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and...

Release : 1976.10.16
Popularity : 0.778

A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the yakuza and execute a variety of...

Release : 1966.05.15
Popularity : 1.172

The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period, and the hurricane-like inner side of his life.

Release : 1971.06.07
Popularity : 1.807

One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversation with an unfamiliar young lady Akiko. She...

Release : 1964.08.29
Popularity : 4.379

Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the...

Release : 1964.04.19
Popularity : 2.777

Based on the comic by George Akiyama

Release : 1970.10.31
Popularity : 1.6

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much...

Release : 1964.10.21
Popularity : 1.792

A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.

Release : 1966.10.30
Popularity : 1.475

Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately,...

Release : 1974.07.13
Popularity : 4.124

Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period daimyo who unified Japan.

Release : 1965.01.03
Popularity : 19.537

Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown when he was 10 years old. He has been...

Release : 1972.01.01
Popularity : 13.267

Release : 1986.04.30
Popularity : 1.351