During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople ...

Genre: Action,Drama

Actors:Isuzu Yamada, Kōkichi Takada, Masao Mishima, Tsumasaburō Bandō, Utaemon Ichikawa

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the ...

Genre: Drama,Thriller

Actors:Daisuke Katō, Isuzu Yamada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirō Mifune, Yōko Tsukasa

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by ...

Genre: Action,History,War

Actors:Isuzu Yamada, Kyōko Kagawa, Toshirō Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga, Yuriko Hoshi

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Akira Takarada, Isuzu Yamada, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yōko Tsukasa, Yumi Shirakawa

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Chishū Ryū, Ineko Arima, Isuzu Yamada, Setsuko Hara, Teiji Takahashi

Returning to their lord’s castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part ...

Genre: Drama,History

Actors:Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn’t see any future in her ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Haruko Sugimura, Hideko Takamine, Isuzu Yamada, Mariko Okada

Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its effects on various civilians, ...

Genre: Drama,History

Actors:Eiji Okada, Isuzu Yamada, Masaya Tsukida, Yoshi Katō, Yumeji Tsukioka

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Chishū Ryū, Isuzu Yamada, Michiyo Kogure, Teruko Kishi, Yōko Katsuragi

Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss so she can pay her father’s debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Benkei Shiganoya, Chiyoko Ôkura, Isuzu Yamada, Shinpachirō Asaka, Yōko Umemura

Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Benkei Shiganoya, Fumio Okura, Isuzu Yamada, Namiko Kawashima, Yōko Umemura