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- DirectorKeigo KimuraNoboru Nakamura
- DirectorYasuki ChibaStarsHan FunayamaAkiko HinoMichiko Hoshi
- DirectorShirô ToyodaStarsMachiko KyôMasayuki MoriEiji Funakoshi
- DirectorKôji ShimaStarsKôji TsurutaMachiko KyôAyako Wakao
- DirectorBin KatôStarsMichiko AiKoume AkasakaYatarô Kurokawa
- DirectorDaisuke ItôStarsKazuo HasegawaKeiko TsushimaJun Tazaki
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsHaruko SugimuraKen UeharaSadako SawamuraWhat is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days cold-heartedly collecting debts. Even her best friends, Tomi, Nobu, and Tamae, who were her fellow Geisha, are now indebted to her. For all of them, the glamor of their young lives has passed; Tomi and Tamae have children, but their children have disappointed them. Kin has two former lovers who still pursue her; one she wants to see, and the other she doesn't. But even the one she remembers fondly, when he shows up, proves to be a disappointment.
- DirectorKôji ShimaStarsMachiko KyôKiyoko HiraiNijiko Kiyokawa
- DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsKazuo HasegawaKyôko KagawaEitarô ShindôIshun 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.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsRanko AkagiKamatari FujiwaraBokuzen HidariPostwar Tokyo. Pin (Jukichi Uno) and Toku (Taiji Tonoyama) live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.
- DirectorTakeshi SatôStarsSachiko HidariShin DateSumiko Hidaka
- DirectorToshio SugieStarsMariko OkadaRyô IkebeHisaya Morishige
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsTakashi ShimuraAkihiko HirataAkira TakaradaAfter a dinosaur-like beast - awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing - ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it.
- DirectorKatsuhiko TasakaStarsRaizô IchikawaTakeshi HanayagiTakashi MitaThe Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Their story is one of the great tragedies of the Boshin War (1868-1869).
- DirectorKiyoshi SaekiStarsSusumu Fujita
- DirectorYutaka AbeStarsKôji TsurutaTetsurô TanbaKeiko Tsushima
- DirectorSatsuo YamamotoStarsKôji TsurutaEiji OkadaYukiko ShimazakiBased on Philippines war experiences. Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts with a local girl. The officer in command orders Lieutenant Uji to shoot Hanada.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsSusumu FujitaEijirô TônoYoshio Inaba
- DirectorSeiji MaruyamaStarsYaeko MizutaniIneko ArimaRentarô MikuniAn elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
- DirectorRyô HagiwaraStarsJûkichi UnoShûji SanoJun Usami
- DirectorMasahiro MakinoStarsAkio KoboriSeizaburô KawazuJun Tazaki
- DirectorMasahiro MakinoStarsAkio KoboriHisaya MorishigeAsami Kuji
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsKeiko TsushimaHiroshi KoizumiKen Uehara
- DirectorTorajirô Saitô
- DirectorBin KatôStarsTakako IrieYoshitaro SadatoMichiko Ai
- DirectorBin KatôStarsMichiyo AiKôtarô BandôTakako Irie
- DirectorSusumu Yumizuri
- DirectorKôji ShimaStarsYoshiko KugaAkira IshihamaSô YamamuraA young woman (Kuga), recuperating at a sanitarium in Karuizawa, falls in love with a young student (Ishihame) but returns to Tokyo to be with her father (Yamamura).
- DirectorHideo ÔbaStarsChikage AwashimaHaruyo IchikawaAkio Isono
- DirectorSeiji MaruyamaStarsRyô IkebeYôko TsukasaTakashi Shimura
- DirectorMotoo NishimuraStarsMichiyo AiShizuo ChûjôUreo Egawa
- DirectorYûzô KawashimaStarsKôji TsurutaYumeji TsukiokaChikage AwashimaIn a fitting tale of today's entrepreneurial fever, an ambitious businessman builds one company from the ground up, only to start all over again from rock bottom. ~ from Ticketing Booklet of HKIFF36 (2012)
- DirectorKazuo MoriStarsKusuo AbeKyôzô FuyukiMakoto Kobori
- DirectorKôji ShimaStarsJun NegamiFujiko YamamotoKenji SugawaraTokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kan-ichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya to marry Tomiyama, a wealthy banker's son. In bitter despair, Kan-ichi breaks with his friends, drops his studies, and declares he has ceased to be human. He apprentices to a money-lender, and he's soon ruthless and wealthy. Several years later, Miya's in misery, her husband mistreats her. She goes to Kan-ichi to beg forgiveness; he pushes her away. He's now pursued by Akagashi, herself a cold-hearted loan shark. Can anything free Kan-ichi's hard heart from the golden demon?
- DirectorChikara KomatsubaraStarsEiji Funakoshi
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsHideko TakamineKeiji SadaYoshiko KugaA family in the city of Tokyo running a liquor store overcome their impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems.
- DirectorKôzô SaekiStarsJunzaburô BanTony TaniAiko Mimasu
- DirectorMasahiro MakinoStarsMonme'ichi AmanoShinobu ArakiMitsuru ChiakiA samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among other things, teaches them about the evils of the government. A member of the yakuza thugs has fallen in love with the samurai's daughter and conspires to report the father to the authorities in order to snatch the girl. The samurai's daughter has a boyfriend who hides the father and daughter from the thug.
- DirectorMinoru ShibuyaStarsEitarô OzawaKeiji SadaKyôko Kagawa
- DirectorSô YamamuraStarsSô YamamuraEijirô TônoKeiko Tsushima
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsKaoru YachigusaNicola FilacuridiMichiko TanakaA churlish American Navy officer deserts his Japanese geisha bride, then returns with a second white wife and demands custody of the geisha's biracial child.
- DirectorKazuo MoriStarsJun NegamiMasayuki MoriAyako Wakao
- DirectorJuno NakagawaStarsHankoMinoru AritaShin Morikawa
- DirectorToshio SugieStarsToshirô MifuneAsami KujiMachiko KitagawaA narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for the overdose death of his brother and the subsequent decline and death of their mother. Tsuda acts viciously and with disdain for legal niceties in his exploration of the criminal facts behind the explosion of a freighter in the harbor. He goes undercover with a band of drug smugglers, but his methods threaten to destroy him as well as his case.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsIsuzu YamadaKô MishimaYûnosuke ItôIn a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another boy who works in a brewery. Heita also finds solace in the village pastor Yasugi and his teacher Michiko, but they too have problems of their own.
- DirectorHiroshi InagakiStarsToshirô MifuneMariko OkadaRentarô MikuniDepicts the early life of the legendary warrior Musashi Miyamoto; his years as an aspiring warrior, an outlaw and finally a true samurai.
- DirectorToshio SugieStarsRanko HanaiMasumi HyôdôRyô Ikebe
- DirectorYutaka AbeStarsSessue HayakawaSusumu FujitaTatsuo Saitô
- DirectorKeisuke KinoshitaStarsHideko TakamineItsuo WatanabeMakoto MiyagawaSchoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.
- DirectorHeinosuke GoshoStarsShûji SanoYûnosuke ItôAkio SatakeThree young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.