Michiko Ono

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

때는 메이지 시대, 노가쿠(能樂) 극단의 키타하치는 스스로가 재주가 뛰어나다 생각하여 오만한 행동을 일삼는다. 키타하치는 스승의 재주를 모욕하고, 스승은 그로 인해 우물에 몸을 던진다. 극단으로부터 파문당한 키타하치는 참회와 방랑의 세월을 보내던 중 운명의 여인을 만나게 된다. 그 여인은 바로 키타하치로 인해 자살한 스승의 딸이다.

라이벌 사가라 갱단의 보스를 불구로 만든 아사히나는 2년 7개월 형을 선고받는다. 수감 중에도 복수를 위해 사가라 갱단의 암살자들이 아사히나를 덮치지만, 용케 살아난 그는 출옥 후에도 여전히 사가라 갱단의 습격에 위태로운 상태이다. 그러던 중 우연히 수감되기 전 극장 매표소에서 일하던 요시에를 만나 사랑에 빠지면서 그는 그동안 자신이 걸어왔던 길에 대한 허무함을 느끼기 시작한다.

밝게 웃는 얼굴과 건강함이 매력인 시마 교코. 엉뚱한 사건을 계기로 제과회사의 마스코트로 선택된 교코는 곧 스타덤에 오른다. 거대한 현대 소비사회에 희롱당하고 부딪치면서도 강한 의지를 관철하는 남녀를 그린 마스무라 야스조의 초기 대표작.

A biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside her mentor (Kyo Machiko) on her way to the top.

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her picture which he crushes and throws under his seat. One of her customers in Tokyo is a pretty girl named Kana for whom she had designed a dress which at first seems quite satisfactory. But a few days later Kana brings it back. It seems her brother thinks it terrible. But when Kana brings the dress back she meets Aya's brother, Takeshi, with whom she becomes friendly and Takeshi gives her a new dress which he smuggles out of his sister's office. When Aya finds Kana's discarded dress and misses one belonging to another customer she goes to see Kana's brother, and to her surprise finds him to be the fellow whose foot she'd stepped upon in the train...

Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido where he made his mark in history through his tragic end this is the story of a beloved and loyal henchman.

The picture tells of a tremendous conflict between ju-jitsu, an aggressive art practiced by vicious hoodlums led by Takamatsu, and judo, which is used only for self-defense and championed by Sugawara. All of which, comes to a mighty match between Sugawara and Takamatsu. It's loaded with dynamite, so to speak, and lasts five minutes on the screen, Sugawara, wins. Takamatsu, a poor loser, and his four ju-jitsu hoodlum companions later ambush Sugawara in the woods. This turns out to be a mortal combat. You'd like to learn the outcome, wouldn't you?

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career.

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.

Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era.

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.