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1. Moriya, mi Ciudad (2019)
120 min | Documentary
Moriya is a small city of Japan surrounded by the immense Tokyo and other important cities, but its humility hides its great beautyness. Chris Jiménez visit the downtown apart from its rivers, sanctuaries, parks and beautiful landscapes.
Director: Chris Jiménez | Star: Sanae Nagashima
Votes: 7
3. 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: 78
4. Street of Shame (1956)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao, Michiyo Kogure
Votes: 4,858
5. Sisters of Gion (1956)
91 min
Director: Hiromasa Nomura | Stars: Michiyo Kogure, Tamao Nakamura, Michiko Ono
Votes: 8
6. 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
7. 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: 2,062
8. 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: 18,204
9. 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: 4,941
10. 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: 1,405
11. 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: 25,778 | Gross: $0.01M
12. 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: 2,362
13. 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: 7,638
14. 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: 1,889
15. 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: 710
16. 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: 570
17. 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: 480
18. 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: 1,494
19. 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: 332
20. 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: 1,422
21. Victory of Women (1946)
84 min | Drama
A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Hiroko Hosokawa, a female lawyer, defends Mrs. Asakura, who suffocated her child in her grief after her ... See full summary »
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Michiko Kuwano, Mitsuko Miura, Shin Tokudaiji
Votes: 174
22. The Famous Sword Bijomaru (1945)
65 min | Drama
Kiyone Sakurai, an apprentice swordmaker makes a sword for his guardian, Kozaemon Onoda. Onoda breaks the sword while defending his lord which eventually leads to his death at the hands of ... See full summary »
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kan Ishii, Eijirô Yanagi, Ichijirô Ôya
Votes: 398
23. Victory Song (1945)
80 min | Drama
Directors: Masahiro Makino, Kenji Mizoguchi, Hiroshi Shimizu, Tomotaka Tasaka, Tatsuo Ôsone | Stars: Reikichi Kawamura, Isamu Kosugi, Kôji Mitsui, Hiroyuki Nagato
Votes: 64
24. Miyamoto Musashi (1944)
53 min | Drama
Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with the famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them swordsmanship to avenge their father's death. The killers of their father see the sister and... See full summary »
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan'emon Nakamura, Kigoro Ikushima, Kinuyo Tanaka
Votes: 273
25. Danjuro sandai (1944)
Drama
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kôtarô Bandô, Toshiko Iizuka, Gonjurô Kawarazaki, Kinuyo Tanaka
26. 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: 2,673
27. The Life of an Actor (1941)
101 min | Drama
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kichisaburo Arashi, Minosuke Bandô, Narutoshi Hayashi, Seizaburô Kawazu
28. Osaka Woman (1940)
145 min
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô, Kôkichi Takada, Ryôtarô Kawanami
Votes: 20
29. 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: 4,389
30. The Song of the Camp (1938)
82 min | Drama
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Hisao Itô, Katsuo Kanazawa, Seizaburô Kawazu, Noboru Kirishima
31. Ah, My Home Town (1938)
64 min
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Fumiko Yamaji, Masao Shimizu, Seiichi Katô, Seizaburô Kawazu
32. 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: 229
33. 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: 2,594
34. 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: 3,007
35. Oyuki the Virgin (1935)
78 min | Drama, War
During a war in the 19th century, a village linked to rebellious forces is attacked by the government army, so a rich family decides to run away; two courtesans travel along them.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Komako Hara, Daijirô Natsukawa, Eiji Nakano
Votes: 264
36. The Downfall of Osen (1935)
87 min | Drama
In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Kumazawa mistreats Sokichi and Osen, while swindling some Buddhist ... See full summary »
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Daijirô Natsukawa, Mitsusaburô Ramon, Genichi Fuji
Votes: 344
37. Poppy (1935)
72 min | Drama
Based on Soseki Natsume's 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to Munechika, a... See full summary »
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Daijirô Natsukawa, Ichirô Tsukida, Chiyoko Ôkura, Kuniko Miyake
Votes: 253
38. Ojô Okichi (1935)
64 min | Drama
Directors: Tatsunosuke Takashima, Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Komako Hara, Yôko Umemura, Toshio Hayashi
Votes: 27
39. Kensetsu no hitobito (1934)
Director: Daisuke Itô | Stars: Eiji Nakano, Daijirô Natsukawa, Mitsusaburô Ramon, Arata Shibata
40. The Mountain Pass of Love and Hate (1934)
102 min
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Daijirô Natsukawa, Denmei Suzuki, Komako Hara
41. The Jinpu Group (1934)
96 min
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Takako Irie, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata, Eiji Nakano, Isamu Kosugi
42. The Water Magician (1933)
110 min | Drama
The tragic tale of a woman who despite doing good where she can gets punished by society.
Directors: Kenji Mizoguchi, Takuaki Seiryô | Stars: Tokihiko Okada, Ichirô Sugai, Bontarô Miake, Kumeko Urabe
Votes: 493
43. Gion matsuri (1933)
68 min | Drama
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Nobuo Kosaka, Bontarô Miake, Shizuko Mori, Tokihiko Okada
Votes: 16
44. The Dawn of Mongolia (1932)
157 min | Drama
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Takako Irie, Eiji Nakano, Taisuke Matsumoto, Ichirô Sugai
45. Toki no ujigami (1932)
55 min | Drama
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Shizue Natsukawa, Etsuji Oki, Aiko Sagara, Kôji Shima
46. Shikamo karera wa yuku (1931)
144 min
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Tomoemon Bando, Fujiko Hamaguchi, Reiji Ichiki, Ginko Mine
47. Fujiwara Yoshie no furusato (1930)
107 min | Drama, Romance
The rise and fall of a singer Yoshio Fujimura. Fujimura entertains the lower class passengers on the ship home from Europe, and is traveling with Ayako, a maid who had fallen in love with ... See full summary »
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Heitarô Doi, Yoshie Fujiwara, Fujiko Hamaguchi, Takako Irie
Votes: 77
48. Nikkatsu on Parade (1930)
1 min | Documentary
Director: Yutaka Abe | Stars: Naoe Fushimi, Fujiko Hamaguchi, Tomiyasu Ikeda, Hirohisa Ikenaga
49. Tôjin Okichi (1930)
115 min | Drama
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Yôko Umemura, Kaichi Yamamoto, Kôji Shima, Taeko Sakuma
Votes: 78
50. Tôkyô kôshinkyoku (1929)
101 min | Drama
A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in feudal Japan, depicted in Kenji Mizoguchi's typical style. The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual... See full summary »
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Shizue Natsukawa, Reiji Ichiki, Eiji Takagi, Isamu Kosugi
Votes: 336