Kinuyo Tanaka

On dokuzuncu yüzyılda Tokyo'da Genç Dr Noboru Yasumoto yaz için lisansüstü tıp eğitimi yapmak üzere bir kırsal kliniğe Akahigenin rehberliği altında ( "Kızıl sakallı"), Dr Kyoj Niide görevlendirilmiştir. Dr. Niide bir zalim görev gibi görünsede gerçekte şefkatli bir insan olduğu ortaya çıkacaktır.

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.

"Merhamet duygusu olmayan biri artık insan değil demektir" Orta Çağ Japonya'sında özgürlüklükçü politikaları yüzünden sürgüne gönderilen vali Taira, oğlu Zushio'ya böyle söyler. Zushio, annesi Tamaki ( muhteşem Kinuyo Tanaka) ve kız kardeşi Anju'yla beraber ailesinin topraklarından kaçar. Bir rahibenin ele verdiği Zushio ve Anju, zalim Sansho'nun (Eitaro Shindo) yönettiği çok büyük bir esir kampına gönderilirler. Anneleri de kaçırılarak uzakta ki bir adaya götürülüp Fuhuşa itilir. Böylece, sinema adına yapılmış en dokunaklı ve felsefi yolculuklardan biri başlar. Kenji Mizoguchi'nin ölümünden kısa bir süre önce çektiği bir dizi başyapıtın belki de doruk noktası olan Efendi Sansho, büyük ölçüde, ağır kamera hareketleriyle ilerleyen karmaşık biçimde tasarlanmış genel planlardan oluşan, yönetmenin imzası haline gelmiş bir görsel Uslubun mükemmeliyetini sergiler; Mizoguchi bu tarzı 1930'lardan itibaren geliştirmeye başlamıştır.

In a remote village where food is scarce, elders who reach the age of 70 are carried by their children to the top of a nearby mountain to die in solitude. Orin, a vibrant 69-year-old grandmother, has accepted her fate — but struggles to prepare the rest of her family for the ritual.

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

Wataru Hirayama ( Shin Saburi ) zengin bir Tokyo işadamıdır. Eski bir okul arkadaşı Mikami ( Chishū Ryū ), babasıyla tartıştığı için evden kaçan kızı Fumiko ( Yoshiko Kuga ) ile ilgili yardım ister onunla konuşmasını ister Watara Hirayama evden kaçan kız ile yardımcı olmak için konuşmayı kabul eder. Çalıştığı bir barda onu bulur, hikayesini dinler . Fumiko, babasının inatçılığından ve evliliğinine karşı çıkmasından şikayet ederken, şu anda bir müzisyene aşık olmuş ve kendi yolunda yaşamı sürdürmeye kararlıdır.

In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts the life and career of his friend and mentor Mizoguchi.

Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko.

Ellili yaşlarına gelmiş olan Oharu, bir zamanlar Kyoto'da bir imparatorluk mahkemesinde nedimelik yapmıştır. Artık erkekler üzerindeki etkisini yitirmiştir. Bİr zamanlar kendinden daha alt statüde bir adama aşık olmuş ve bu ortaya çıktığında ailesiyle birlikte sürgün edilmiştir. İhara Saikaku'nun 'Aşka Aşık Kadın' romanından uyarlanmıştır.

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 mother's trade in the late days of geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portrays the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Mokichi Asai is a widowed father living in Nara with three daughters—Chizuru, Ayako, and Setsuko. The youngest, Setsuko, plays matchmaker for her older sisters, leading to humorous and awkward romantic entanglements.

Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. But now he's back and Mariko tries to reunite them, although she too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.

Tokiko patiently awaits her husband's return from WWII when her four-year old son falls ill. She takes him to the doctor but has no means of paying, so she resorts to prostitution. A month later, her husband returns to find his desperate wife, who tells him the truth. Together, they must deal with the consequences.

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946.

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.

Chubei, the adopted son of an Osaka courier, falls desperately in love with the courtesan Umegawa. To prevent a wealthy client from purchasing her, he steals money from his employer to buy her freedom himself. Now hunted criminals, the lovers flee toward Yamato, pursued by the law.

Fumiko, mother of two and wife to an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In her final stages, Fumiko meets a young journalist from Tokyo who wants to write a story on her experiences.

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies.

In 1880s Japan, women's struggle for equality rages on. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.

Japanese silent film directed by Yasujirô Shimazu, originally released as a two-part movie on December 11, 1931.

Depicting Date clan’s internal strife that occurred during a peaceful Edo period governed by the 4th Tokugawa shogun.