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...
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...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transfor...
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During ...
Two American G.I.s visiting Tokyo find themselves mixed up with espionage, a pretty flight attendant...
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the groc...
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yea...
Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in...
Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, L...
A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding lo...
Dan is a former geisha, now working as an ace pilot for the Earth Defense Troops. Her fiance was kil...
A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.
Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to th...
Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this st...
The young and beautiful Sada Abe, the daughter of a rich merchant, is banished for losing her virgin...