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1. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama
In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô
Votes: 18,341
2. Sound in the Mist (1956)
84 min | Drama, Romance
In a cabin in the heart of the Japanese Alps, a botany professor observes two newlyweds while spending time with his lover. At night, his wife confronts him about the extramarital relationship and she leaves the teacher the next morning.
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu | Stars: Ken Uehara, Michiyo Kogure, Keizô Kawasaki, Keiko Fujita
Votes: 29
3. Ugetsu (1953)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito
Votes: 25,962 | Gross: $0.01M
4. The Life of Oharu (1952)
Not Rated | 133 min | Drama
Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai, Toshirô Mifune
Votes: 7,690
5. A Story from Chikamatsu (1954)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Ishun is a wealthy but unsympathetic master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô, Eitarô Ozawa
Votes: 4,986
6. Osaka Woman (1940)
145 min
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô, Kôkichi Takada, Ryôtarô Kawanami
Votes: 23
7. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
Not Rated | 148 min | Drama, Romance
The adopted son of a legendary actor, and an aspiring star himself, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and affection - only for her to give up everything for her beloved's glory.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kôkichi Takada, Ryôtarô Kawanami, Kinnosuke Takamatsu
Votes: 4,410
8. Bad Reputation: Turf Wars (1974)
104 min
A man, Asakichi, becomes the target of the yakuza when he relates to a geisha.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Jôji Ai, Hiroko Isayama, Kirin Kiki
Votes: 49
9. A Geisha (1953)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
A seasoned geisha and her apprentice maiko are forced to give in to their clients' sexual advances to survive.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu, Eitarô Shindô
Votes: 2,381
10. Yôtô monogatari: hana no Yoshiwara hyakunin-giri (1960)
109 min | Action, Fantasy
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in ... See full summary »
Director: Tomu Uchida | Stars: Chiezô Kataoka, Yaeko Mizutani, Isao Kimura, Akiko Santô
Votes: 320
11. Onnakeizu (1962)
99 min | Drama, Romance
Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geisha.
Director: Kenji Misumi | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Michiyo Kogure, Masayo Banri, Eiji Funakoshi
Votes: 26
12. Nyokei kazoku (1963)
111 min | Drama
Director: Kenji Misumi | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Machiko Kyô, Jirô Tamiya, Miwa Takada
Votes: 49
13. Miss Oyu (1951)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Romance
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective wife, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of ... See full summary »
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Yûji Hori, Kiyoko Hirai
Votes: 1,904
14. The Woman of Rumour (1954)
83 min | Drama, Romance
Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present-day Kyoto. Her daughter Yukiko returns from Tokyo following a failed suicide attempt, after her lover found out ... See full summary »
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomoemon Otani, Yoshiko Kuga, Eitarô Shindô
Votes: 1,409
15. Sisters of the Gion (1936)
95 min | Drama
Two geisha sisters lead a hard life in the Gion district of Kyoto. After one of them feels obliged to support a bankrupt businessman, the other sister sets up various schemes to get rid of him.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Yôko Umemura, Benkei Shiganoya, Namiko Kawashima
Votes: 3,009
16. Bushido (1963)
122 min | Action, Drama
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he remembers his gruesome family history, which sees his ancestors sacrificing themselves for the sake of their cruel lords, and realizes that he's about to repeat their mistakes.
Director: Tadashi Imai | Stars: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Eijirô Tôno, Kyôko Kishida, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 503
17. Love and Faith (1978)
154 min | Drama
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has ... See full summary »
Director: Kei Kumai | Stars: Ryôko Nakano, Kichiemon Nakamura, Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune
Votes: 49
18. A New Bad Reputation Story (1962)
99 min | Action, Crime
Director: Kazuo Mori | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Jirô Tamiya, Tamao Nakamura, Reiko Fujiwara
Votes: 18
19. Taira Clan Saga (1955)
108 min | Drama, History
After his father is not rewarded for his military achievements, Taira Kiyomori rebels against the court and the monks who rule the country. He also falls in love with Tokiko and discovers unsettling revelations about his parentage.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Narutoshi Hayashi, Raizô Ichikawa, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Michiyo Kogure
Votes: 1,101
20. Musashino fujin (1951)
88 min | Drama, Romance
Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become close.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Yukiko Todoroki, Masayuki Mori, Akihiko Katayama
Votes: 712
21. Flame of My Love (1949)
96 min | Drama, Romance
A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, ... See full summary »
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Votes: 481
22. An Osaka Story (1957)
97 min | Drama
Story follows a poor peasant family that through hardship gets some money and how that change them.
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Shintarô Katsu, Michiko Ono
Votes: 79
23. Ibo kyoudai (1957)
110 min | Drama
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.
Director: Miyoji Ieki | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Kinuyo Tanaka, Chôko Iida, Yoshihide Morishita
Votes: 61
24. The 47 Ronin (1941)
241 min | Drama, History
The legendary Forty-seven ronin plot to avenge the death of their lord, Asano Naganori, by killing Kira Yoshinaka, a shogunate official responsible for Asano being forced to commit seppuku.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Utaemon Ichikawa, Kan'emon Nakamura
Votes: 2,680
25. Osaka Elegy (1936)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A young woman becomes a mistress of her boss in order to support her family.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Yôko Umemura, Chiyoko Ôkura, Kiyoko Ôkubo
Votes: 2,602
26. Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow (1962)
109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
In the reign of the Emperor Suzaku (930- 946 A.D.), various mishaps happen after a strange white rainbow in appearance in the sky over Kyoto. The Emperor orders a famous astronomer, ... See full summary »
Director: Tomu Uchida | Stars: Hashizô Ôkawa, Michiko Saga, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata, Jun Usami
Votes: 458
27. Women of the Night (1948)
75 min | Drama
A mistress of a drug dealer in post-war Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is having an affair with her sister.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Sanae Takasugi, Tomie Tsunoda, Mitsuo Nagata
Votes: 1,503
28. Peony Lantern (1968)
89 min | Horror
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her.
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto | Stars: Kôjirô Hongô, Miyoko Akaza, Mayumi Ogawa, Kô Nishimura
Votes: 210
29. Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975)
132 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary film on the life and works of director Kenji Mizoguchi.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Takako Irie, Daisuke Itô, Kyôko Kagawa, Matsutarô Kawaguchi
Votes: 328
30. Ballad of the Cart (1959)
145 min | Drama
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto | Stars: Yûko Mochizuki, Rentarô Mikuni, Sachiko Hidari, Tokie Hidari
Votes: 47
31. Yôkihi (1955)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, History, Romance
In 8th-century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the ... See full summary »
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura, Eitarô Shindô
Votes: 2,078
32. Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950)
88 min | Drama, Romance
Young servant girl Hamako has just started working for her personal heroine, Madame Yuki, but her romanticized view of the Madame is broken immediately as she is introduced to a list of the Madame's personal problems.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Michiyo Kogure, Yoshiko Kuga, Ken Uehara, Eijirô Yanagi
Votes: 575
33. The Straits of Love and Hate (1937)
108 min | Drama
A young couple of lovers want to travel to Tokio to work and form a family there, but the parents of him want his son to regent their hotel. Finally, he does what his parents want him to, and her finds herself abandoned in the big city.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Taizô Fukami, Akira Harue, Kiyoshi Katô, Seizaburô Kawazu
Votes: 232
34. Bad Reputation Marketplace (1963)
89 min
Director: Kazuo Mori | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Jirô Tamiya, Michiko Saga, Minoru Shiraki
Votes: 18
35. Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)
106 min | Drama
Utamaro is a great artist who lives to create portraits of beautiful women, using the brothels of Tokyo to provide his models.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô, Hiroko Kawasaki
Votes: 1,430
36. Namida gawa (1967)
79 min | Drama
Director: Kenji Misumi | Stars: Shiho Fujimura, Kiku Wakayagi, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Rokkô Toura
Votes: 26
37. Death of a Tea Master (1989)
107 min | Biography, Drama, History
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.
Director: Kei Kumai | Stars: Eiji Okuda, Toshirô Mifune, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Gô Katô
Votes: 386
38. Bad Reputation (1961)
94 min | Action, Crime
Director: Tokuzô Tanaka | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Jirô Tamiya, Tamao Nakamura, Yasuko Nakada
Votes: 44
39. Oedo gonin otoko (1951)
132 min | Action, Drama, History
During the 17th Century bands of hatamoto, samurai vassals of the Tokugawa shogunate, were causing havoc in the new capital city of Edo. Opposing them was Banzui-in Chobei,whose sole aim ... See full summary »
Director: Daisuke Itô | Stars: Tsumasaburô Bandô, Utaemon Ichikawa, Isuzu Yamada, Kôkichi Takada
Votes: 83
40. Another New Bad Reputation Story (1962)
99 min | Action, Crime
Director: Tokuzô Tanaka | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Jirô Tamiya, Reiko Fujiwara, Mieko Kondô
Votes: 17
41. The Love of Sumako the Actress (1947)
96 min | Drama
The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Sô Yamamura, Kikue Môri, Chieko Higashiyama
Votes: 335
42. Bad Reputation Harbor (1963)
92 min
Director: Kazuo Mori | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Jirô Tamiya, Makoto Fujita, Eiko Takashiro
Votes: 15
43. Life of Bad Reputation (1967)
84 min
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Jirô Tamiya, Mitsuko Mori, Yûko Hamada
Votes: 11
44. Another Bad Reputation Story (1961)
93 min | Action, Crime
Director: Tokuzô Tanaka | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Jirô Tamiya, Tamao Nakamura, Yaeko Mizutani
Votes: 19
45. Bad Reputation of the Big Three (1963)
89 min
Zatoichi is caught between two gang bosses and must fight his way pit of an intense territorial dispute (Hulu)
Director: Tokuzô Tanaka | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Jirô Tamiya, Reiko Fujiwara, Hiroyuki Nagato
Votes: 15
46. Number One Bad Reputation (1963)
91 min
Director: Tokuzô Tanaka | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Jirô Tamiya, Kyôko Enami, Reiko Fujiwara
Votes: 13
47. Tempyo no iraka (1980)
120 min | Drama, History, Horror
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era, four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.
Director: Kei Kumai | Stars: Katsuo Nakamura, Masaaki Daimon, Mitsuo Hamada, Daigo Kusano
Votes: 20
48. Bad Reputation: Invincible (1965)
83 min
Director: Tokuzô Tanaka | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Jirô Tamiya, Kaoru Yachigusa, Shiho Fujimura
Votes: 16
49. Flag of Bad Reputation (1965)
81 min
Director: Tokuzô Tanaka | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Jirô Tamiya, Yaeko Mizutani, Chôchô Miyako
Votes: 17
50. Sisters of Gion (1956)
91 min
Director: Hiromasa Nomura | Stars: Michiyo Kogure, Tamao Nakamura, Michiko Ono
Votes: 8