Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.
The Blue Mountains: Part II
Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.
The Blue Mountains: Part I
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young man from Tokyo.
Mickey One
A former comic is on the run from the mob.
Mr. Pu
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
Three Outlaw Samurai
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. His first adventure sees him investigating his superior officer's mistress, whom he suspects of having ties with a reputed criminal on the loose.
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Double Suicide
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.
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Mikio Naruse
Director
Toshiko Itô
as
Etsuko - Kimiko's mother
Sachiko Chiba
as
Kimiko Yamamoto
Chikako Hosokawa
as
Shingo's wife
Tadashi Imai
Director
Masao Mishima
as
Kokuten Kôdô
as
Setsuko Hara
as
Yukiko Shimazaki
Ichirô Ryûzaki
as
Tamao Numata
Fran Ryan
as
Homeless Woman
Hideo Gosha
Director
Miyuki Kuwano
as
Aya
Akira Kurosawa
Director
Yoshie Minami
as
The Maid
Masahiro Shinoda
Director
Shima Iwashita
as
Koharu / Osan
Shizue Kawarazaki
as
Osan's Mother
Sumiko Hidaka
as
Proprietress
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Kon Ichikawa
