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6.4

♡ 3

Comedy

Keisuke Kinoshita Director

Shinji Tanaka as Kôhei, the man from the country

Hiroko Itô as Miyoko, the lodger Ryo Ono

Ryo Ono as Shintarô, Sakura's husband

Hideko Takamine as Yuriko Satô

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

365 Nights

1949

6.1

♡ 2

Kon Ichikawa Director

Hideko Takamine as

Hisako Yamane as

Yûji Hori as

Ken Uehara as

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and decides to marry her. Only to discover that his father is is in debt and wants him to marry Ranko so that she may help his company by granting 1.5 million yen. Teruko decides to borrow money from a greedy bar owner who lends her money on certain conditions and photographs her without her consent. A love traingle forms between Koroku, Ranko, and Teruko. Things complicate when Koroku marries Teruko and Tsugawa threatens them for the money causing many twists and turns.

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

1960

7.3

♡ 7

Mikio Naruse Director

Akira Takarada as Reiji Sakanishi, the younger son

Hideko Takamine as Sakanishi Kazuko, Yuichiro's wife

Setsuko Hara as Sanae Sakanoshi, the eldest daughter

Hiroshi Tachikawa as Shin Asabuki

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.

Lightning

1952

7.5

♡ 9

bus

parent child relationship

sister

Mikio Naruse Director

Hideko Takamine as Kiyoko

Mitsuko Miura as Mitsuko

Chieko Murata as Nuiko

Jun Negami as Shuzo

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.

Untamed Woman

1957

7.4

♡ 7

taisho

taishō period

Mikio Naruse Director

Eijirô Tôno as

Masahiko Tsugawa as

Hideko Takamine as Oshima

Mitsuko Miura as Oyu, her rival

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.

A Woman's Place

1962

7.4

♡ 3

Mikio Naruse Director

Kunio Ôtsuka as

Akira Takarada as Rokkakuya Kou, Aki no senpu no ko

Akemi Kita as Yasuko, Matsuyo no musume

Hideko Takamine as Yoshiko, Ishikawa-ke no yome

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Floating Clouds

1955

7.6

♡ 12

82%

Mikio Naruse Director

Fuyuki Murakami as Futsuin no shikensho-chou

Nobuo Kaneko as Futsuin no shoin - Suitou

Masayuki Mori as Kengo Tomioka

Hideko Takamine as Yukiko Koda

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

Flowing

1956

7.5

♡ 13

88%

Mikio Naruse Director

Kichijirô Ueda as

Yoshie Minami as

Hideko Takamine as Katsuyo, Otsuta's daughter

Isuzu Yamada as Otsuta

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 portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

The Munekata Sisters

1950

7.4

♡ 3

89%

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Hideko Takamine as Mariko Munekata

Yoshiko Tsubouchi as Mieko

Reikichi Kawamura as Sangin's customer

Sanae Takasugi as Yoriko Mashita

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

1967

7.2

♡ 6

83%

History

Yasuzô Masumura Director

Misako Watanabe as Koriku

Hideko Takamine as Otsugi, Seishû's mother

Yatsuko Tan'ami as Saheiji's wife

Raizô Ichikawa as Seishû 'Unpei' Hanaoka

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

1961

8.8

♡ 38

Masaki Kobayashi Director

Hideko Takamine as Hinanmin no Onna

Nobuo Kaneko as Kirihara Gôchô

Fujio Suga as Nagata Taii

Yûsuke Kawazu as Terada Nitôhei

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

1960