My Son! My Son!
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.
Spring Dreams
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.
Thus Another Day
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man...
Father
A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.
Onna
Like many women after the war, Toshiko works as a chorus girl; her boyfriend Tadashi wishes she'd join him more frequently, but she detests his criminal involvement.
The Tattered Wings
A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.
Danger Stalks Near
The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
Apostasy
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
Boyhood
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
Children of Nagasaki
August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.
Taiyô to bara
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
Zen-ma
The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.
The Scent of Incense. Part 1
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.
The Ghost of Yotsuya: Part I
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband.
The Ghost of Yotsuya: Part II
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil Naosuke.
Wedding Ring
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
A Japanese Tragedy
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
Umi no hanabi
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
The Ballad of Narayama
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?
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Keisuke Kinoshita
Director
Sanae Takasugi
as
Kazuyo Sakai
Tomisaburô Wakayama
as
Shuzo Kawase
Sayuri Yoshinaga
as
Yasuko Shibata
Hideko Takamine
as
Yukie Kawase
Yûsuke Kawazu
as
Mamoru Okudaira
Masao Oda
as
Takeuchi
Michiko Araki
as
Yae
Yoshio Inaba
as
Yamada
Rentarô Mikuni
as
Kenzô Akada
Takahiro Tamura
as
Tetsuo Mori
Murasaki Fujima
as
Tomoe Takemura
Shizue Natsukawa
as
Yasuko's mother
Yôko Moriguchi
as
Akiko
Daigo Kusano
as
Kojiro
Yuko Saito
as
Mie
Kuniko Igawa
as
Kimiko, Fuyuko's sister
Eijirô Yanagi
as
Shunsuke's father
Ryo Ono
as
Shintarô, Sakura's husband
Eijirô Tôno
as
Jûkichi Uno
as
Ginnosuke Tuchiya
Ichirô Sugai
as
Keinosuke Kazama
Chishû Ryû
as
Father
Eiko Miyoshi
as
General store lady
Akira Ishihama
as
Ichirô
Takeshi Katô
as
(as Tsuyoshi Kato)
Yukiyo Toake
as
Midori Nagai
Chikage Awashima
as
Tsumo
Sadako Sawamura
as
Akiyama's mother
Keijirô Morozumi
as
Bar master
Fujio Suga
as
Sushi shop master
Koreya Senda
as
Tsuyoshi Kitaura
Eiji Okada
as
Nobuko Otowa
as
Ikuyo
Hisako Yamane
as
Oume
Mitsuko Yoshikawa
as
Toshirô Mifune
as
Takeshi Ema
Masami Taura
as
Haruko's son
Isuzu Yamada
as
Kaoru Uozumi
Danko Ichikawa
as
Kesakichi
Seiji Miyaguchi
as
Mata-yan
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