Kôzaburô Yoshimura

After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the house before leaving. (imdb)

A yakuza gang is exploiting girls from a juvenile prison by forcing them to appear in pornographic films. It's up to Rica to stop them.

Based on the classic novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing the one object of desire he must never obtain: his father's young and beautiful bride. Following the tragic onsequences of his obsession, Genji wanders from one affair to another, always seeking some sort of resolution to his life. (KG)

Yoshimura brought satire back into the film in his 1947 The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant (Zo o Kutta Renchu), which was about five hungry men who, after eating a zoo's elephant, dead from natural causes, get into an enormous amount of difficulty with bureaucratic authorities. (Donald Richie)

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and when she falls in love with a forger, she opts to wait for him after he is sent to prison, rather than follow societal or family dictates. (All Movie)

When the young lawyer Yano hears that Takako the daughter of his former teacher has become an orphan he is ready to help her. Takako becomes part of his household to teach his children and spreads love and warmth among the family. Soon both of them develop romantic feelings for each other...

A satirical comedy about a store clerk who falls in love with his boss's daughter. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo. (The Movie Database)

Haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife. (imdb)

Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes marriage but whose mother harbours ill feeling towards her because of an incident in the mountains where a child got into difficulties. Kozoe rejects the proposal but falls ill and when she recovers, decides to devote herself entirely to the world of flower arranging.

1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura. (themoviedb)

A family of weavers deals with an uncertain future after the father commits suicide. (imdb)

A 1949 drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.

Eldest daughter Kiwa (Fujiko Yamamoto) fuels the business with her ambition and unquestionable talent, but her attraction to a genetics professor will take her and her family's practice to an unforeseeable direction… (KG)

A pair of sisters make a go at life in post-WWII Kyoto; one as a geisha, the other as an office worker.

As Japan became more prosperous, the Ginza district of Tokyo emerged as the luxury bar and cabaret center it remains to this day. While the charming and beautiful women who operate these establishments are privy to political and financial deals of national importance, Yoshimura's film reveals that their hopes, their businesses and their very lives are as fragile as butterflies. (KG)

Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio’s novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director’s daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse.

Chinese Yasumi Hara is ordered by his chief of Intelligence to go to Japan, use the attraction Japanese women feel for exotic aliens to get information from them, and disrupt Japanese morale.

Melodrama that lovingly portrays working people who live in poverty but righteously. Kosaburo Yoshimura, the master of “women’s films,” cast Yasuko Fujita, an unknown newcomer, in the leading role for this masterpiece about the joy of love. The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father’s and daughter’s salaries to support the family’s six members, life is not easy. (Letterbox'd)

A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men. (imdb)

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto. (letterboxd)