Eiko Miyoshi
Ikiru
as HousewifeKanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position...
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Good Morning
as Mitsue HaraguchiA lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of...
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Stray Dog
as Harumi's motherA bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot,...
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The Hidden Fortress
as Maid (uncredited)In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers...
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Throne of Blood
as Old Woman at castleReturning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who...
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The Idiot
as Madame KayamaKameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved...
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I Live in Fear
as Toyo NakajimaKiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an...
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
as OsugiStruggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to...
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The Lower Depths
as Asa, Tomekichi's WifeResidents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and...
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
as OsugiAfter years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns...
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No Regrets for Our Youth
as Madame YagiharaOver more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as...
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Tokyo Twilight
as MidwifeTwo sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the...
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Street of Shame
as Kadowaki Saku, Yumeko's mother-in-lawThe lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the...
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A Wife's Heart
as uncreditedKiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly...
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Mother
as GrandmotherA teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
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Black River
as uncreditedA university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The...
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Samurai Saga
as OkuniEdmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an...
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Snow Country
as TeacherIt's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He...
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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
as Mrs. ShiokawaShozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his...
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Boyhood
as uncreditedWhen a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
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Sword for Hire
as uncreditedSoldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind...
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The Beast Shall Die
as uncreditedA promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following...
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Mr. Pu
as uncreditedA math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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A Holiday in Tokyo
as uncreditedMay Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New...
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The Unbalanced Wheel
as uncreditedA study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
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Love Never Fails
as uncreditedTwo youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant...
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
as uncreditedA screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following...
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Escape Zone
as uncreditedShiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a...
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Jigoku bana
as uncreditedPeriod drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.
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Okuni and Gohei
as MotherA high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is...
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Elegy
as uncreditedWataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its...
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The President Talks Bank
as uncreditedThe president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing...
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
as uncreditedThis drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in...
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The Skin of the South
as Old lady OnoderaWhen a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development...
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The Days of Evil Women
as uncreditedThe common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune,...
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Carmen's Innocent Love
as Kumako SatakeStrip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing...
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Zoku shachōtaiheiki
as uncredited7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
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The Cock Crows Twice
as uncreditedThree young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
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The Blue Pearl
as Noe's auntThe Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers;...
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A Whistle in My Heart
as uncreditedThe story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the...
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Marital Relations
as uncreditedThe story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era....
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The President's Boss
as uncreditedA new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former...
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An Inn at Osaka
as uncreditedAn Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
as RankoWhere Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a...
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White Fish
as NanA family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a...
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Husband and Wife
as uncreditedA married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The...
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The Third President
as uncreditedThe fifth entry in the Company President Series
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Omatsuri hanjiro
as uncreditedEvery year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a...
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Sunflower Girl
as uncreditedYoung Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei...
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Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
as uncreditedJirocho the gambler hits the road.
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Notes of an Itinerant Performer
as OtaneUta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt...
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A Case of Honor
as uncreditedThe obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a...
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Firefly Light
as uncreditedSet in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose...
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Clothes of Deception
as uncreditedThe story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist...
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Who Knows a Woman's Heart
as uncreditedIkeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's...
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First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
as Mrs. HatokoNatsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a...
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