A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.
A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. A...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
Two American G.I.s visiting Tokyo find themselves mixed up with espionage, a pretty flight attendant...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yea...
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this st...
The sinister Dr. Watt has an evil scheme going—he's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning the...
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess...
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to Fran...
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...
Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to...
A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.
Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in...
Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transfor...
Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed ...
Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to th...
The young and beautiful Sada Abe, the daughter of a rich merchant, is banished for losing her virgin...
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Kat...