Kyōko Kishida
出生 : 1930-04-29, Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
死亡 : 2006-12-17
略歴
Kyōko Kishida (April 29, 1930 – December 17, 2006) was a Japanese actress, voice actress, and writer of children's books.
Her father was Kunio Kishida, a playwright and the founder of the Bungaku-za. She became an actress in 1950, and starred in a Yukio Mishima production of Salome (1960). Her film and television drama credits number in the hundreds. Among them are four Taiga drama series on NHK television, with roles such as Aguri (the wife of Asano Naganori and Yodo-Dono (the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi). She appeared in various roles, including acting and narrating, in various Ōoku series on television. In the series Gokenin Zankurō, she portrayed the mother of the title character (played by Ken Watanabe), and narrated a Lone Wolf and Cub television series.
Kishida's film credits include Yasujirō Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon (1962), The Broken Commandment (based on a novel by Shimazaki Toson), Hiroshi Teshigahara's The Woman in the Dunes (1964) and The Face of Another (1966) (both from novels by Kōbō Abe), Kon Ichikawa's The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (1987), based on the classic story, Heaven and Earth (1990), and Spring Snow, the 2005 Isao Yukisada adaptation of the Mishima novel.
Anime fans know Kishida as the voice of Moomin in the original 1960s television series. She provided narration for Vampire Princess Miyu and Princess Tutu as well as the 2005 Book of the Dead. In addition, she dubbed roles for Columbo and Miss Marple, and narrated Prophecies of Nostradamus. Kishida appeared in commercials for Nestle, TDK, and Asahi Shimbun.
Kyōko Kishida died on December 17, 2006 in Tokyo from respiratory failure caused by a brain tumor.
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Ume
A drama of two aging women who live a solitary life collecting discarded items from a nearby town. One day they return home to find a young girl knitting a red sweater in their house. Each time the girl finishes her dress, she promptly unravels it and the mystery unfolds.
Azumaya
10歳の時に出会った恋人・エミ（黒木メイサ）の病を治したい一心で医者の道を歩む青年・熊川鉄矢（窪塚洋介）。ある日エミの父親を死に至らしめた山火事事件の犯人・ドン（エディソン・チャン）が刑務所から脱走する。
大正初期。幼なじみとして育った侯爵家の子息・松枝清顕と伯爵家の令嬢・綾倉聡子はいつしか惹かれ合っていたが、互いにそれに気付かずにいた。そんなある日、聡子に宮家の洞院宮治典王から縁談が舞い込む。綾倉家にとっては願ってもないことで、また断わることなど許されない話でもあった。正式な婚約の勅許が下りた後、清顕はようやく自らの本当の想いを知る。聡子もまた、自分が本当に愛しているのは清顕だと気付く。
Narrator (voice)
A sheltered aristocratic woman in feudal Japan, bored and unfamiliar with the world outside her estate, passes the time copying a special Buddhist sutra sent by her father who has been absent on official business for years. While gazing out her window one late afternoon, the setting sun creates a vision of a holy figure in the distant mountains.
Higuchi Ichiyo is the first female professional novelist in Japanese literature. This tanpatsu drama is a biography of her personal life.
2004 film
Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names of animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).
Otome
他人の仇討ちに首を突っ込んで報奨金をいただく“助太刀屋”の助六。久々に故郷へ帰った彼は、母の粗末な墓に誰かが花を供えていたことを知る。思い当たる節もないまま、新たな仇討ちが始まると知って商売っ気を出す助六だが、すでに助太刀は足りているという。がっかりした助六は、足を向けたなじみの棺桶屋で、今度は当の仇である片倉梅太郎なる男と出会う。だが、仇の割に、彼には悪党らしいところがないと疑問を持つ。
今より千年前、紫式部は宮中の藤原道長からの頼みで道長の娘・彰子の教育係として京の都にやって来る。実は式部には、どうしても京の都で完成させなければいけない一つの物語があったのだ。『源氏物語』と題されたその物語の主人公は桐壺帝の子・光源氏。 容姿端麗にして武芸に秀でている源氏は何不自由のない生活を送っていたが、継母である藤壺中宮への禁断の恋心に苦悩もしていた―。式部はまだ清純な彰子に物語を説いてゆくのだが、ついに物語は源氏が姫君たちとの逢瀬の果てに、藤壺と体を重ねてしまうことになる…。
Cleaning Lady
Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe falls ill.
或る小藩。ここでは、町奉行が不明瞭な辞職を繰り返していた。そんな矢先、江戸から望月小平太なる新任がやってくる。ところが、その男には振る舞いの不埒さから“どら平太”という渾名がついていた。実際、着任する筈の期日を10日も過ぎても、彼は奉行所に出仕しない始末なのだ。しかし、それはどら平太本人が友人で大目付の仙波義十郎に頼んで、わざと流させた悪評であった。実は、彼は密輸、売春、賭博、殺傷などが横行する「壕外」と呼ばれる治外法権と化した地域の浄化にやってきたのだ。
Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force - the Shinsengumi - at the end of the Edo period.
Taeko Kano
Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsutomu manages to have his way with her. Coming from a broken home, he is frightened by love, so he cruelly allows her to wake up alone. A month passes and a more grown-up Tsutomu returns. The lovers joyously reunite and move in together. All is blissful until both notice a strange sore on Mitsu's arm. The doctors diagnose it as leprosy. Without telling Tsutomu, Mitsu checks into a leper sanitarium. Hanging out with society's pariahs gives her much insight. She discovers the old lepers to be wonderful people. In turn, Mitsu becomes their source of joy and renewed hope. Still, she misses her Tsutomu. One day, the doctors inform her that they erred and that the sore is not leprosy. Happily she heads back to her true love until she realizes with a guilty pang that to return to him would mean unhappiness for her newfound friends
Kotake Tajimi / Koume Tajimi
大正時代、村の旧家「田治見家」の当主・要蔵が発狂し、村人32人を惨殺するという事件が起こる。要蔵は、落武者たちを皆殺しにした際の首謀者・田治見庄左衛門の子孫でもあった。そして20数年後の昭和23年、またもやこの村で謎の連続殺人事件が発生することとなる。物語は、神戸に住む寺田辰也の身辺をかぎ回る不審人物の出現から始まる。彼は母1人子1人で、戦争から戻ってくると天涯孤独の身となっていた。そして復員後2年近く過ぎたある日、彼の行方をラジオで捜していた老人と、諏訪弁護士の仲介で面会する。ところが、2人きりになったとたん、老人は血を吐いて死ぬ。
School Master
春休み。塾講師の理香は教え子たちとの合宿授業のため、故郷にある寺へ。そんな合宿に地元の子どもたちも参加するが、理香の願いとは正反対に、都会っ子の塾生たちと地元っ子たちは対立するようになってしまう。やがて理香と子どもたちは、30年前の4月4日4時44分、寺の隣の小学校で校長が怪死する事件があったことを知る。合宿最終日である4月4日、子どもたちは小学校で肝試しをするが、そこに幽霊たちが現われる。
Ohama
Thief Yaheiji (Keizo Kanie) helped a dying young samurai (Hiroaki Murakami), after recovering, he lost his memory and returned to Edo under the name of Yataro Tanigawa. Yaheiji meets Yataro again in Edo, by which time Yataro has become a dark hunter (Hired Assassin). The boss of thieves to whom Yaheiji obeys is killed, and Yaheiji participates in the battle to take his place Yataro helps him defeat and save his life, and Yaheiji also tries to save Yataro from the world of assassins... The drama "Dark Hunter" is based on the novel by Shotaro Ikenami, who is best known for his TV series Onihei Hankacho, Kenkaku Shobai and Fujieda Baian's Shikake-nin. The film version directed by Hideo Gosha is well known, but this version is more faithful to the original.
Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.
Old geisha Miyako (cameo)
Hong Kong student Ben Lee becomes friends with his mainland Chinese classmate Chang Chih while studying abroad in Japan. Ben is unmotivated to study and only cares about money and on the other hand, whenever Chih encounters a Chinese person, he would ask whereabouts of his childhood sweetheart. Ming is also from Hong Kong and in order to elevate his social status, he becomes involved with a bar hostess and owner Yuriko, hoping to become Yakuza leader Yamada Ishikawa's brother in-law.
Natsu Mizukami
能をテーマにした取材の為、吉野の天河神社を訪れた紀行ライターの浅見光彦は、変死体で発見された能の宗家・水上流長老の殺人容疑で逮捕される。すぐに容疑が晴れ釈放された光彦はその後、水上流後継者をめぐる殺人事件に関わってゆく。
Maid-In-Waiting
天文十七年（1548年）。時代は戦国、下克上の世。越後の長尾景虎、後の上杉謙信は、兄に天誅を加えるなど冷徹な闘いぶりをみせていた。一方、甲斐の国では大きな野望を胸に武田晴信、後の武田信玄が勢力を拡大していた。戦乱の中で非情に徹することができない景虎は苦悩の末に城を捨て修行僧になる。が、晴信の無礼に遭遇した景虎は武田陣打倒を決意するのだった。
Narration (voice)
On her fifteenth birthday the princess finds a diary written by her mother when she was young. The diary tells of the Queen's secret, early love. The Princess goes into the forest to meet her mother's former lover. When she looks into his eyes, she realizes why her mother had fallen in love...
Wife
戦国時代にあって、お茶の道を追究し続けた千利休。そんな美と知の体現者・利休と、絶大な権力を持ちながらも粗野で利休とは対極にある秀吉の確執を描く。映画に登場する生花はすべて、自身も華道・草月流の家元である勅使河原監督の手による。利休を演じた三國連太郎と秀吉を演じた山崎努の対照的な演技のぶつかり合いもみどころ。また、同時期に公開された「千利休 本覺坊遺文」との“利休対決”も話題となった。
Kichibi
Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will become his wife...
Narrator
吉原遊廓では借金に縛られた娘たちが六年の年季が明けるまで春を売っていた。久乃がここ吉原の“中梅楼”に遊女として売られてきたのは十八歳の春。明治の末のことである。中梅楼には花魁の筆頭とも言うべき、お職の九重をはじめ、二番太天の吉里、三番太天の小花に次いで、菊川などさまざまな遊女がそれぞれ艶を競っていた。
Benten
刃傷騒ぎで殺された前任者の代わりに、派手な装束の美青年、奥田右京亮が南町奉行として赴任する。彼は若いながらも老中酒井に引き立てられた野心家だった。一方、同奉行所の同心にして仕事人の主水は、江戸市中を暴れ回る旗本愚連隊の事件を担当していた。長屋で愚連隊に殺された浪人について探りを入れる主水は、子連れの仕事人・文七やなじみの店のおかみ・おふくらの情報から、事件の裏に右京亮が潜んでいることに気付く。
The Gotokuji family has a colossal amount of money. Yuri is a paid housekeeper and sent to this family. While working at the house, she finds a new form of love.
Nobuko Kitashiro
A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man.
Kuginukiya
Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.
Ohba, Head Nurse
太平洋戦争末期に実際に起こった米軍捕虜に対する生体解剖事件を描いた遠藤周作の同名小説を、社会派・熊井啓監督が映画化した問題作。敗色も濃厚となった昭和20年5月。九州のF市にも毎晩のように米軍機による空襲が繰り返されていた。医学部の研究生、勝呂と戸田の二人は物資も薬品も揃わぬ状況下でなかば投げやりな毎日を送っていた。
Fusako Ishimoto
Narumi Rokuheita and his wife Noriko spend their lives separated. Soon they start looking for love elsewhere.
Based on the comic book of the same name by Youko Shouji
Self
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu's long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to work on this). Surprisingly (or perhaps not), it focuses less on Ozu's accomplishments as a film-maker than on his impact on the lives of the people he worked with..
Kimie Hasenuma
父が待つアメリカへの出発を一週間後に控えた女子大生の新井直美。憧れの永井先輩に誘われホテルへ向かった直美だったが、直美の伯父を名乗る男が飛び込んできて永井を追い出してしまう。男は直美の父の元秘書に雇われた辻山秀一という名の私立探偵で、彼女を出発まで守ることになっていた。ある日、辻山の元妻である幸子が彼のアパートに転がり込んできた。岡崎組の跡取りである和也がホテルで刺殺され、自分が容疑者として疑われているのだという。直美は辻山に、一緒に犯人を捜そうと言い出す。
ルポライターの母田耕一は、磯部大蔵大臣の私設秘書である秦一毅の身辺を探っていた。だがその矢先、秦の家で働いていたお手伝いが殺されてしまう。手型占いをしているという秦の内妻の青蛾を追う母田は、後輩の須藤に連れて行かれたバーのママゆき子と知り合うが、そのあと何者かに殺害されてしまった。須藤は母田の仕事を引き継ぎ調査を進めるが、青蛾も変わり果てた姿で発見される。やがて須藤は、ゆき子から驚くべき過去を知らされるのだった。
Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular the Honganji lineage that had a slump in its fortunes during the Middle Ages. According to the legend, his motivation was a pivotal childhood incident at the age of six when his mother summoned him and told him about his destiny to revive the fortunes of the Honganji school to which he was the next in line. She then mysteriously disappeared from the temple. Taking her words to heart, from a background of great poverty and hardship, at the age of 16 he set out to spread the word across the land.
Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.
Grandmother (voice)
舞台は、今よりも遥か遠い未来。人類は環境破壊により滅び行く地球を再生させるため、植民惑星へ移住した。
コンピュータ管理により整然と生きる人類。その一方で疎まれる、特殊な能力を持つ「ミュウ」という存在。
彼らは過酷な弾圧の中で政府の目から逃がれ、息を潜めながらも自分たちの存在意義を考え、そして地球への帰還を夢みていた―。
ミュウのリーダー、ソルジャー・ブルーは、アタラクシアに住む少年ジョミーを自分の後継者として選び、夢を託す。 故郷・地球へ還る―――
その強い想いから、彼らの地球を目指す戦いが始まる。
Shima Ikegata
不義によって産まれた娘が、成長して母親と同じ罪を犯してしまう。死後、彼女は地獄に堕ち、七大地獄を目の当たりにする。業の恐ろしさを描いた幻想劇。
An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the Kamakura period (1185-1333) in Japan. Nichiren taught devotion to the Lotus Sutra as the exclusive means to attain enlightenment. Because of his devout belief, Nichiren is met with opposition throught his travels, with life on the line, can Nichiren accomplish his goal?
Omon
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.
日本・アジア勢力圏を拡大する首領の前に、もう一人の首領が立ち塞がる。果てしなき野望は中央政財界にまでおよび...。
Kimiyo Tarumi
日本各地に残る犬神憑きや狐憑き伝説。その憑き物を代表する“犬神憑き”に題材を取って、現代の都会と山村で次々と起る怪奇現象と取り憑く身の毛もよだつ恐怖を、リアルで大胆な映像感覚で描いたカルト的名声高いホラー大作。とくに犬神が可憐な少女に憑依して天空を疾駆する息もつかせないバトルは見応え十分である。
Ochika
Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared in Utamaro's paintings.
Kakin Miyakawa
旧家の名士犬神佐兵衛の遺言状が公開されるが、莫大な遺産の相続者は佐兵衛の恩師の孫娘である野々宮珠世と結婚した者と記されていた。佐兵衛の孫にあたる3人の男はそれぞれ珠世を我が物にしようと企むのだが、やがてそれは連続殺人事件へと発展していく……。
Narrator (Voice of the Prophecy)
Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds, hideously mutated animals, destruction of the ozone layer - rage out of control, the world leaders hurtle blindly toward the final confrontation. The film sparked controversy in Japan and was subsequently pulled out of circulation, with no official video release of the uncut film.
Mama, the girl's mother
「ママ、びっくりしないで、泣かないで、落着いてね。そう、わたしは旅に出たの。ただの家出じやないの、旅に出たのよ（つづく）」の書き出しで始まる。16歳の少女が、男出入りの多い貧しい絵かきの母と女ふたりの家庭や、学校生活が憂うつになり、家を飛び出したところから物語は始まる。舞台は四国。少女の実家も四国。海辺伝いに、四国遍路の旅に出た少女がママに宛てた手紙に託すかたちで、多感な青春の断面を四国の自然描写を織り込みながらみずみずしい筆致で描かれている。家出であり、旅でもあり、遍路でもあり、漂泊でもある、天衣無縫な自由きままな旅であり、常に母への手紙という形で描かれる。それは常に一方通行で、母からの復路はなく、すべてはモノローグである。
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who also penned The Human Condition.
Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is released at the age of 44, the power struggles of her clan continue to disturb her life and the man whom she loves.
Akie
Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to swindle him out of two million yen for alleged rape by his son. Akie (Kyoko Kishida), Ishida's wife and the chairman's daughter, offers her a million, but he gives her what she demands. Now Michi is not only satisfied, but she has a mad desire for Ishida and calls him every day asking for a date. His sympathy for her gradually evolves into love, and he soon allows her insatiable passion to strip him of his decency.
Miriam / Jaris (voice)
バクダッドの水売り商人アルディンは奴隷市で一目惚れした女奴隷ミリアムを強引にさらってしまう。二人は互いに愛し合い幸せのひとときをおくるが、アルディンは富豪殺しのぬれぎぬを着せられ、二人の仲は引き裂かれてしまう。アルディンは監獄にぶち込まれるが、やがて看守長の手助けで脱獄を果たす。ミリアムの元へ急ぐアルディン。しかし、時すでに遅くミリアムはこの世を去っていた。自分を陥れたバドリーへの復讐を誓い、彼を追いかけるアルディンだったが、彼を待ち受けていたのは世にも不思議な冒険の数々だった…。
Oharu Tsutaya
Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure out the true identity of Sharaku, who disappeared after about 150 portraits of actors he created came out.
"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son.
Urao
Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.
(voice)
Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children.
Nurse
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Mikie Shima
Kaoyo
Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to send her husband into battle.
A short experimental anime about a woman desperately in love. Made by Yoji Kuri, a well-known Japanese indie animator.
Sonoko Kakiuchi
秘かに奈良の奥山を散策する二人の女性。手をしっかりと握って、どちらともなく微笑みかけている美しい二人は、洋服のよく似合う魅惑的な徳光光子。その眼は特に印象的だ。そして和服の似合うもう一人の女性は、弁護士柿内孝太郎の妻で、チャーミングな小悪魔を思わせる柿内園子だった。この二人は同性愛であった。先日も、園子の寝室で、その美事な裸体を披露した光子は、その美しさに興奮した園子と、激しく抱き合っていた。最初...
A Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency to investigate his case and investigates Mitsue Takazawa, the wife of a local trading firm whom is really a crime lord responsible for Kikuchi's imprisonment and now sets sights on Setsuko, a woman Kikuchi becomes romantically involved with.
Yoko Saijyo
Namiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her husband’s company by greenmail.
The Woman
An entomologist suffers extreme psychological and sexual torture after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village.
Lady Hagi
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.
The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oichi, from an evil vassal.
Inone
Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.
'Kaoru' no Madame
周平（笠智衆）は、妻とは死別し、長男の幸一（佐田啓二）は結婚して家を出て団地暮らし。いまは娘の路子（岩下志麻）と次男の和夫（三上真一郎）と３人安らかに暮らしていた。 ある日、周平はいつものように友人の河合（中村伸郎）、堀江（北龍二）と酒を飲みに行く。 話題は路子の嫁行きの話になり、まだ路子を嫁にやることなど考えてもいなかった周平は悩み始める…。 日本映画界の巨匠・小津安二郎監督の最後の作品で、妻に先立たれた男とその子供達の幸せの中にもなぜか潜む孤独と寂しさを描いた作品。
Chiyo's Friend
The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.
Reiko
Takashi Fujiki stars as a rebel in this drama about life on the Yokohama waterfront by New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda. The rebel works as an errand boy for a shipping company and vents his frustrations by plucking on the guitar. His interpretations of popular trends in music are sometimes right-on, and sometimes not exactly. Bereft of his guitar, the rebel's modes of expression are not as effective in generating interest as the Yokohama docks themselves, a fascinating world in their own right.
A montage of scenes that describe how people can be as bad as animals.
Inoko's wife
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination.
A bittersweet love story between yakuza Hiroshi and a married woman Reiko.
Yoshiko Hoshino
A love melodrama.
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during the Pacific War. Matters are complicated further when he falls in love with the soldier's younger sister (Tsukasa).
Sayoko Goto
監督・市川崑、脚本・和田夏十の、浮気性の男と妻、そして９人の愛人たちが織りなすブラックコメディ。 テレビプロデューサーの風松吉は、美しい妻・双葉がいながら、９人の女と浮気していた。妻と愛人たちはお互いの存在をそれとなく知っており、松吉が浮気者であるという事も重々承知しているものの、なぜか松吉から離れられないでいた。 あるとき妻と舞台女優で愛人の市子とで松吉を殺す計画が持ち上がる。それは計画を立てることで松吉への鬱憤を晴らすための架空の計画であったのだが、気の小さい松吉は愛人たちが自分を殺そうとしていると思いこみ妻に相談する。妻はあっさり計画を認めた上で、二人で愛人を一掃するために、愛人を集めて松吉を糾弾する会を開き、その席上でピストルで松吉を殺したように見せかけるという狂言殺人を行うことにするが…。
Ryûko
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
Sally
Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.
Mrs. Tanuma
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.
Sumiko Tsuboi
Comedy about 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.
The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.
Sakie
A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to kill him.
潮風の吹きただよう小さな港町。飲食店を営むおきんの家の屋根裏部屋では、一人娘のおコウが高校卒業試験の準備に夢中だった。その頃、町で興行していたストリップ劇団は不入り続きで、座員のはるみは宿屋の女将おしまの口入れでおきんの店で働き、男たちの人気を集めていた。数週間後、卒業証書を手に帰って来たおコウは、屋根裏部屋ではるみと男客の、あられもない姿を見て驚いた。事情を知ったおきんは、はるみに小言を云ったものの、おコウに世間並の娘の暮しをさせたい余り、元芸者の
Three short tales from stories by Ichiyo Higuchi. In one, a young woman is degraded by her family after an arranged marriage. Another deals with the troubles heaped upon a young servant by her family and the wealthy people who employ her. The final story tells of a prostitute and her hopes of finding a new, respectable life.
