Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Ryûzô Kikushima
Cast
Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori
Plot
A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Minoru Nakano, Mikio Naruse
Cast
Sachiko Chiba, Yuriko Hanabusa, Toshiko Itô
Plot
When she reaches adulthood, a precocious young woman sets out to find her biological father, who, as her mother tells her, abandoned them for another woman.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Toshirô Ide, Aya Kôda, Sumie Tanaka
Cast
Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takamine
Plot
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 mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: None, Japanese
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Shunyô Yanagawa, Kôgo Noda
Cast
Yoshiko Okada, Shin'yô Nara, Yukiko Tsukuba
Plot
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim - with the help of her gangster brother - the daughter she abandoned years before.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Fumiko Hayashi, Sumie Tanaka, Toshirô Ide
Cast
Haruko Sugimura, Ken Uehara, Sadako Sawamura
Plot
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days cold-heartedly collecting debts. Even her best friends, Tomi, Nobu,...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: na
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Jitsuzô Ikeda, Komatsu Kitamura
Cast
Setsuko Shinobu, Akio Isono, Hikaru Yamanouchi
Plot
Story of a waitress whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a stiflingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.
Okoma, a young lady working as a conductor with a bus company in Kofu Yamanashi, has an idea for her bus that could avert the dwindling number of passengers.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Yasunari Kawabata, Mikio Naruse
Cast
Chikako Hosokawa, Masako Tsutsumi, Ryuko Umezono
Plot
Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in bars. A number of loosely linked episodes ensue as the sisters who have different cha...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Tomoyoshi Murayama, Mikio Naruse, Jirô Osaragi
Cast
Hideo Saeki, Ranko Edogawa, Noboru Kiritachi
Plot
Avalanche is a study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his wife.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Yôko Mizuki, Saisei Murô
Cast
Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga
Plot
In Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruse's adaptation of an oft-filmed popular novel by Saisei Murô, the eldest daughter (Machiko Kyô) of a rural family comes home pregnant, testing some already tenuous family bonds...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Fumiko Hayashi, Kazuo Kikuta, Toshirô Ide
Cast
Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Daisuke Katô
Plot
Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working in poverty while being abused by her boyfriend all the while hoping to break free from the cycle.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Edouard Atiyah, Toshirô Ide
Cast
Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Mitsuko Kusabue
Plot
Two friends meet in a bar. Later that night, one friend's flirtatious wife is reportedly in an accident. The other friend doesn't feel well. What's come over him?
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Mikio Naruse
Writer
Matsutarô Kawaguchi, Mikio Naruse
Cast
Kazuo Hasegawa, Isuzu Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara
Plot
Mr. Tsurujiro is a Japanese folk singer assisted by Ms. Tsuruhachi on the shamisen. The pair is popular, but he nitpicks often on her music and so they split. She marries a benefactor, but after a joint show, feels music is above ...
