Isuzu Yamada
Black River
Oct. 23, 1957Yojimbo
Apr. 25, 1961Daredevil in the Castle
Jan. 03, 1961The Lovelorn Geisha
Jul. 12, 1960The Lovelorn Geisha
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite ...
Bonchi
Apr. 14, 1960Bonchi
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to ...
Tokyo Twilight
Apr. 30, 1957Tokyo Twilight
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
Throne of Blood
Jan. 15, 1957Flowing
Nov. 20, 1956Flowing
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 ...
Hiroshima
Oct. 07, 1953Fireworks Over the Sea
Oct. 25, 1951Fireworks Over the Sea
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
Osaka Elegy
May. 28, 1936Osaka Elegy
Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss so she can pay her father’s debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.
Sisters of the Gion
Oct. 15, 1936Sisters of the Gion
Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt ...