Daijirô Natsukawa

In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Kumazawa mistreats Sokichi and Osen, while swindling some Buddhist monks out of their temple treasures. When Kumazawa is arrested, Osen agrees to help Sokichi finance his dream of going to medical school. They live in a humble room, and eventually the only way Osen can find enough money for them is to prostitute herself during the day, without Sokichi knowing. (imdb)

As the teenage bus conductress O-Koma, Takamine might best be described as beatification personified, and it is her continuously cheerful demeanor that effectively masks the film's underlying current of satirical bitterness. (Slant Magazine)

It's senseless. "I should have changed. But it's not my fault" says one of the characters. In the great tradition of storytelling, Mizoguchi creates remarkable characters, gets involved in their drama, but also keeps distance. He skips between concepts, ideas, emotions poetically. In his films, people laugh and people cry... (blog.waysofseeing)

It is based on Kawaguchi Matsutaro's adaptation of Maupassant's "Boule de Suif". To this story Mizoguchi added some of his own elements. Set during the Franco-Prussian War, it is the story of a group of people who try to flee the battleground in a horsedrawn carriage. The bourgeois use the expression "lump of fat" to refer sarcastically to the prostitute who is riding along with them. When they are caught by the enemy, they offer to send her to the commander as a human sacrifice... (rapidshareindex.com)

An penniless orphan loses the woman he loves when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed and becomes a ruthless money lender. (imdb)

Loosely based on the H.G. Wells 1897 classic novel THE INVISIBLE MAN, the Japanese take on the story, still has a scientist using a special chemical to become invisible. The story begins when jewel thieves becomes interested in an invisibility formula invented by Professor Nakazato. The thieves kidnap the professor and want to use his invention to acquire a diamond necklace called the "Tears of Amour".

Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women’s university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a lawyer. The aim. Michiko (Kuniko Miyake), one of the seven best friends from the same women’s college, is getting married. The man she’s marrying is her sister’s lover.

The story is about love and friendship of young girls who are naive and delicate.

A devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is 'Bokuseki' (wooden head) because of his supposed stubbornness.

During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt government and end the bloodshed between the Choshu and Satsuma clans which would ultimately lead to the alliance of these 2 clans, and restoration of the emperor to full power. Based on the play that made Sawada Shojiro famous, this is the story of Tsukigata Hanpeita, a forward-looking samurai from Choshu, who along with ...