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.
Daffy Duck marries for money, but the bossy wife and her raucous, trouble-making little son soon hav...
In a rural town the local elders and a band greet the arrival of a troupe of strippers. After a show...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. A...
Foul-mouthed mother-from-hell Karen Matthews is fed up being a nobody, until she hatches a cunning p...
Kiriko is a beautiful woman working in a quiet hot spring town. The owner of the inn, Goro, is attra...
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...
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During ...
Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transfor...
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...
Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, L...
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...
Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th centu...
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, ...
Two American G.I.s visiting Tokyo find themselves mixed up with espionage, a pretty flight attendant...
Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in...
In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her...