A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Frankie Sakai, Jun Fujimaki, Kyū Sazanka, Sō Yamamura

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds ...

Genre: Drama,History

Actors:Chikage Awashima, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Sō Yamamura, Yatsuko Tan'ami, Yoshiko Kuga

Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching…

Genre: Drama

Actors:Jirō Tamiya, Kohji Moritsugu, Kōji Takahashi, Sō Yamamura, Taisaku Akino

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. ...

Genre: Drama,History,War

Actors:Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten, Martin Balsam, Sō Yamamura, Tatsuya Mihashi

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the ...

Genre: Drama,History,War

Actors:Chishū Ryū, Rokkō Toura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Sō Yamamura, Toshirō Mifune

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager–and then wrote a bestselling novel about it–reappears in her life, ...

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Kaoru Yachigusa, Kei Yamamoto, Mariko Kaga, Misako Watanabe, Sō Yamamura

A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown, so a bevy of lawyers and ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Keiko Kishi, Seiji Miyaguchi, Sō Yamamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yūsuke Kawazu

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal ...

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Eijirō Tōno, Hiroyuki Nagato, Jūkichi Uno, Mariko Okada, Sō Yamamura

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in ...

Genre: Drama,History,War

Actors:Chikage Awashima, Ineko Arima, Michiyo Aratama, Sō Yamamura, Tatsuya Nakadai

Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous ...

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Eiko Ando, Ryuzo Demura, Sam Jaffe, Sō Yamamura

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that ...

Genre: Drama,History,Romance

Actors:Eitarō Ozawa, Eitarō Shindō, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, Sō Yamamura

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Ken Uehara, Setsuko Hara, Sō Yamamura, Teruko Nagaoka, Yōko Sugi

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Chieko Higashiyama, Chishū Ryū, Haruko Sugimura, Setsuko Hara, Sō Yamamura