Mitsuo Miura

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.

Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the other boy and the girl find they cannot forget him.

An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

Gosho’s most celebrated film both in Japan and the West, Where Chimneys Are Seen is perhaps the most compelling example of his concern for, and insights into, the everyday lives of lower-middle-class people. Based on Rinzo Shiina’s novel of the absurd, the film depicts the lives of two couples against the backdrop of Tokyo’s growing industrialization during the 1950s.

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Osen, a middle-aged maid from a nearby inn, takes her in and nurses her, assisted by Dr. Minami, a young physician who diagnoses her illness as a mild case of pneumonia. With Masako in good hands and needing a few days to recuperate, her classmates continue their tour. Masako’s recovery, however, is hampered by her spoiled and immature nature and her determination to punish the world for the loss of her mother.

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor. Over a ten-year period - from 1936 through the war - they find each other and are separated again by the events of those tumultuous days.

Dos hermanas, una bailarina y la otra supervisora de guiones de un gran estudio de cine, se ven envueltas en una huelga de trabajadores del ferrocarril.

During the Warring States era, Hozoin Kakuzenbo and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, being best friends, spend their days acquiring skills of the spear, sword and martial arts. Hozoin loses a series of matches with master swordsman Kozumi Ise-no-kami. Bitterly ashamed, Hozoin embarks on a journey, trying to perfect his skills. A few years later, Hozoin is ready and it's time for the ultimate showdown with Ise-no-kami!

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes involving an itinerant woman.

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Japanese domestic drama.

Okabe es un agente de seguros que trabaja duramente para conseguir nuevos clientes. Adora a su hijo Susumu hasta el punto de que sería capaz de casi cualquier cosa con tal de satisfacerle. Susumu le pide un costoso aeroplano de juguete, y Okabe redobla sus esfuerzos para conseguirlo. Su empresa le ordena visitar el barrio en el que viven los Toda. (El hijo de Toda acaba de pelearse con Susumu.) Okabe acude a regañadientes y, al llegar, descubre que otro agente de seguros se le ha adelantado. Entablan una pelea, y la señora Toda, harta de sus bufonadas, despide a ambos. Okabe se sirve del hijo de Toda para convencer a la madre de que contrate una póliza. De repente, le llega la noticia de que su propio hijo, Susumu -quien no estaba asegurado-, ha sido arrollado por un tren. Cuando llega al hospital, se encuentra con su afligida esposa...