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1. The Maid Story (1963)
110 min | Drama
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Mitsuko Mori, Nobuko Otowa, Yaeko Mizutani
Votes: 11
2. Kôkotsu no hito (1973)
102 min | Drama
Story about a woman who looks after her father in law.
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Hideko Takamine, Takahiro Tamura, Nobuko Otowa
Votes: 41
3. Jinsei gekijô - Seishun hen (1958)
111 min | Drama
Director: Toshio Sugie | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Hisaya Morishige, Takashi Shimura, Mitsuko Kusabue
Votes: 15
4. Sweet Sweat (1964)
120 min | Drama
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Keiji Sada, Junko Ikeuchi, Miyuki Kuwano
Votes: 17
5. Onibi (1956)
46 min
Directors: Yasuki Chiba, Motoyoshi Oda | Stars: Daisuke Katô, Keiko Tsushima, Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura
Votes: 25
6. Saigô no shinpan (1965)
96 min
Director: Hiromichi Horikawa | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takeshi Katô
Votes: 8
7. Yushu heiya (1963)
114 min | Drama
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Fujiko Yamamoto, Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Nakadai
Votes: 10
8. Mito Kômon man'yûki (1969)
Action, Comedy
Director: Yasuki Chiba | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Akira Takarada, Tadao Takashima, Junko Ikeuchi
Votes: 13
9. Hymn to a Tired Man (1968)
130 min | Drama
During WWII a soldier is beaten so badly by a superior officer he is left deaf. After the war he is an inventor and meets this officer at the patent office. The man is still the bully he was.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Michiyo Aratama, Makoto Fujita, Toshio Kurosawa, Tomoko Naraoka
Votes: 149
10. Shiro to kuro (1963)
113 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Hiromichi Horikawa | Stars: Keiju Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Hisashi Igawa, Koreya Senda
Votes: 21
11. Anyakôro (1959)
144 min
Adapted from Naoya Shiga's novel about the emotional turmoil of a man who suspects that his wife is committing adultery with his father.
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Fujiko Yamamoto, Chikage Awashima, Tatsuya Nakadai
Votes: 10
12. Gurama-to no yuwaku (1959)
105 min | Comedy
The story of three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes and the wife of an officer - all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of World War II.
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Furankî Sakai, Tatsuya Mihashi, Kaoru Yachigusa
Votes: 14
13. The Tale of the Blue Beka Boat (1962)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Eijirô Tôno, Sachiko Hidari, Nobuko Otowa
Votes: 18
14. Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (1975)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A mountain man captures a beautiful, but a manipulative city woman and goes to excessive lengths to please her every whim.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Tomisaburô Wakayama, Shima Iwashita, Hiroko Isayama, Kô Nishimura
Votes: 1,103
15. Fumô chitai (1976)
181 min | Crime, Drama
After 11 years in Siberia as a war criminal, a man joins a corporation making fighter planes to sell to the government but other corporations are competing with his firm for the enormous profit of such a deal.
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Shiho Fujimura, Andrew Hughes
Votes: 65
16. Meoto zenzai (1955)
121 min | Drama
Despite paternal disapproval, the heir of a wealthy family embarks on a relationship with a Geisha.
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Chikage Awashima, Yôko Tsukasa, Haruo Tanaka
Votes: 122
17. The Twilight Story (1960)
120 min | Drama
A young woman goes to Toyko to work as a geisha to support her ailing mother. There she meets an impoverished school teacher and falls in love with him.
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Fujiko Yamamoto, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Michiyo Aratama, Nobuko Otowa
Votes: 63
18. Tokai no yokogao (1953)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
A little girl named Michiko gets lost from her mom in the neighborhood of Ginza. A friendly couple, a sign carrier and and a shoe-shine girl, start helping her. The mother is simultaneously looking for the lost child.
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Ineko Arima, Michiyo Kogure, Hisaya Morishige
Votes: 52
19. Snow Country (1957)
133 min | Drama, Romance
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the ... See full summary »
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Keiko Kishi, Kaoru Yachigusa, Akira Kubo
Votes: 177
20. Shima no sehiro no oyabun-shû (1961)
91 min
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Furankî Sakai, Chikage Awashima, Reiko Dan
Votes: 10
21. Kigeki ekimae bentô (1961)
89 min
Director: Seiji Hisamatsu | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Furankî Sakai, Chikage Awashima, Achako Hanabishi
Votes: 8
22. I Am a Cat (1975)
116 min | Comedy, Drama
The cat of the title roams around the house of a poor schoolteacher in the late 19th century, observing the goings-on of the teacher and his neighbors.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kuriko Hano, Jûzô Itami, Nobuto Okamoto
Votes: 262
23. Dark the Mountain Snow (1966)
106 min | Drama
An ex-geisha girl's husband commits suicide, and the grieving widow finds herself forced to contend with a vindictive mother-in-law in a small mountain village in Japan's north country.
Director: Zenzô Matsuyama | Stars: Hideko Takamine, Shigeru Kôyama, Kikue Môri, Furankî Sakai
Votes: 8
24. Kigeki ekimae ryokan (1958)
109 min | Comedy
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Furankî Sakai, Junzaburô Ban, Chikage Awashima
Votes: 21
25. Miren (1963)
Drama
Director: Yasuki Chiba | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Junko Ikeuchi, Noboru Nakaya, Nobuko Otowa
Votes: 8
26. Illusion of Blood (1965)
105 min | Fantasy, Horror
A samurai warrior is haunted by the spirit of his first wife.
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mariko Okada, Junko Ikeuchi, Mayumi Ôzora
Votes: 322
27. A Cat and Two Women (1956)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A timid and aimless man's love for his cat is his only solace in a life dominated by his mother and the two women she chooses for him to marry.
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Yuko Minami
Votes: 155
28. Musume to watashi (1962)
123 min
This is the story of a Japanese husband and his French wife who becomes pregnant. They move from France to Yokohama, Japan only to suffer his inability to land a job. Fortunately, there are... See full summary »
Director: Hiromichi Horikawa | Stars: Yuriko Hoshi, Sô Yamamura, Setsuko Hara, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Votes: 11
29. River Solo Flows (1951)
93 min | War
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Hisaya Morishige, Yûnosuke Itô, Susumu Fujita
Votes: 11
30. Momo no hana no saku shita de (1951)
73 min | Drama
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu | Stars: Satoko Date, Ranko Edogawa, Ranko Hanai, Kikuko Hanaoka
Votes: 7
31. Buttsuke homban (1958)
98 min | Drama
Director: Kôzô Saeki | Stars: Furankî Sakai, Keiko Awaji, Eitarô Ozawa, Tatsuya Nakadai
Votes: 6
32. 'Akasaka no shimai' yori: yoru no hada (1960)
103 min | Drama
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô, Tomoko Kawaguchi
Votes: 11
33. Nabeshima kaibyô-den (1949)
83 min | Horror, Mystery
Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, ... See full summary »
Director: Kunio Watanabe | Stars: Ureo Egawa, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Sôji Kiyokawa, Tamae Kiyokawa
Votes: 43
34. Dorifutazu desu yo! Totte totte torimakure (1968)
89 min | Action, Comedy, Musical
Director: Yûsuke Watanabe | Stars: Za Dorifutâzu, Chôsuke Ikariya, Bû Takagi, Chû Arai
Votes: 13
35. Tsuma to onna no aida (1976)
111 min
Depicts various relationships between four beautiful sisters, their husbands, and their second daughter's husband's mistress.
Directors: Kon Ichikawa, Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Yoshiko Mita, Mayumi Ôzora, Wakako Sakai, Akiko Nishina
Votes: 15
36. House of Many Pleasures (1955)
129 min | Drama
Director: Seiji Hisamatsu | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Hisaya Morishige, Hideko Takamine, Asami Kuji
37. Geisha Konatsu (1954)
Director: Toshio Sugie | Stars: Mariko Okada, Ryô Ikebe, Hisaya Morishige, Chieko Nakakita
38. Shiawase wa ano hoshi no shita ni (1956)
Romance
Director: Toshio Sugie | Stars: Michiyo Kogure, Ken Uehara, Mariko Okada, Akira Kubo
39. Kigeki ekimae bantô (1966)
91 min
Director: Kôzô Saeki | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Furankî Sakai, Chikage Awashima, Mayumi Ôzora
40. Kigeki ekimae daigaku (1965)
94 min
Director: Kôzô Saeki | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Furankî Sakai, Chikage Awashima, Junko Ikeuchi
41. Hot Vacation (1968)
81 min | Action, Comedy
Director: Akio Hirayama | Stars: Norihei Miki, Kikko Matsuoka, Tetsurô Tanba, Hans Horneff
42. Kigeki ekimae gakuen (1967)
92 min
Director: Kazuo Inoue | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Furankî Sakai, Yumiko Nogawa, Kayo Matsuo
43. Kaiketsu Harimao (1960–1961)
30 min | Action
Stars: Sanzô Akaozeki, Teruko Amano, Bin Amatsu, Saburo Aonuma
44. Burari burabura monogatari (1962)
98 min | Comedy
A man wandering through the land with a large amount of money encounters a fellow vagabond, a woman who has suffered from the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, but she proceeds to run off with his wealth.
Director: Zenzô Matsuyama | Stars: Keiju Kobayashi, Hideko Takamine, Norihei Miki, Reiko Dan
45. Nami kage (1965)
107 min
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Katsuo Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Sadako Sawamura
46. Onna gokoro wa hitosuji ni (1953)
Drama
Director: Toshio Sugie | Stars: Masanaga Hori, Ryô Ikebe, Ren Imaizumi, Yaeko Izumo
47. Kaei (1961)
99 min
The relationships between the hostesses and the customers who visit a typical city bar.
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Junko Ikeuchi, Shûji Sano, Ryô Ikebe, Tadao Takashima
48. Kikoku (Damoi) (1949)
90 min | Drama
Directors: Takeshi Satô, Kunio Watanabe | Stars: Masao Inoue, Chizuko Nogami, Yûji Hori, Den Ôhinata
49. Kigeki ekimae sanbashi (1969)
92 min | Comedy
Last entry in the long-running comedy film series, about a ship's captain.
Director: Toshio Sugie | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Furankî Sakai, Eitarô Matsuyama, Junzaburô Ban
50. Shin meoto zenzai (1963)
118 min
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Chikage Awashima, Keiko Awaji, Asao Koike