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...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
The sinister Dr. Watt has an evil scheme going—he's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning the...
Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed ...
Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transfor...
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During ...
A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding lo...
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to Fran...
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the groc...
Two American G.I.s visiting Tokyo find themselves mixed up with espionage, a pretty flight attendant...
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess...
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...
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...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, L...
A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she stru...
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...