The Life of Oharu (1952)
Follows a womans fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society
Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)
Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models A world of passion swirls around him, as the women in his life vie for lovers And, occasionally, his art gets him i
Sisters of the Gion (1936)
Two geisha sisters lead a hard life in the Gion district of Kyoto After one of them feels obliged to support a bankrupt businessman, the other sister sets up various schemes to get rid of him
A Story from Chikamatsu (1954)
Ishun is a wealthy, but unsympathetic, master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out
Women of the Night (1948)
A mistress of a drug dealer in post war Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is having an affair with her sister
Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression
The 47 Ronin (1941)
The legendary Forty seven ronin plot to avenge the death of their lord, Asano Naganori, by killing Kira Yoshinaka, a shogunate official responsible for Asano being forced to commit seppuku
Street of Shame (1956)
The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel
Ugetsu (1953)
A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century