Kikue Mōri
Ugetsu
as UkonIn 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of...
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Sansho the Bailiff
as PriestessIn medieval Japan, a woman and his children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was...
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Gate of Hell
as SawaJapan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a...
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Irezumi
as Shinsuke's MotherA mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on a kidnapped woman's...
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An Actor's Revenge
as Cruel Old WomanIn Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their...
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A Geisha
as uncreditedEiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive...
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The Inferno
as uncreditedHell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a...
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Poem
as uncreditedThe ascetic houseboy of a Japanese lawyer bears witness to the secretive sexual relationship...
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Revenge
as TomeAn innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai...
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The Christian Revolt
as uncreditedIn the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against...
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A Legend, or Was It?
as Umeno SonobeA Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry...
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Night Drum
as uncreditedFollowing a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited...
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Bonchi
as KinoKikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal....
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The Mad Fox
as Old Woman FoxA court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope...
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Silence
as Old womanTwo Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread...
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Rebellion
as uncreditedIn the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a...
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Lucky Dragon No. 5
as uncreditedAn ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of...
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Sword of Destiny
as uncreditedWhen master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his...
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
as uncreditedThe stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the...
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Kagebōshi
as しげOn the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken...
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Blood of Revenge
as uncreditedOsaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean...
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The Hidden Profile
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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Women of the Night
as uncreditedFusako, a drug dealer's young mistress in postwar Japan, loses her tenuous grasp on life upon...
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Ghost of Saga Mansion
as uncreditedA woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost...
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Capone's Younger Brother: Heart and Speculation
as Grandmother YoshinoLesser, but still modestly entertaining sequel. Wakayama is wonderfully bastardly here, but has...
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The Horse Boy
as uncreditedA humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later,...
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The Priest and the Beauty
as NagisaPrincess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but...
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Operation Negligee
as uncreditedAfter a mine collapses and leaves her husband employed, Fumiko moves to Kyoto with her daughter...
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The Garden of Women
as uncreditedA student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's...
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This Way, That Way
as uncreditedAn intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who...
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The Wanderer
as uncreditedAfter killing the deceiver, the Masa gambler comes to Ina. There is a horse market in Ina, and...
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Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
as uncreditedYoung widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha,...
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A Thousand Standards of Stone
as OyoneA film about the rivalry and friendship between firefighter Chоji and sumo wrestler Sokichi...
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Love and Duty
as uncreditedEach one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She...
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Mission to Hell
as uncreditedA samurai warrior attempts to stop Kublai Khan's Mongol hordes from overrunning Japan in the...
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Takamaru and Kikumaru
as uncreditedTwo brothers, Takamaru and Kikumaru, are living with their father, Hakuraku-Ou, until one day...
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Nobuko to Obachan
as 佳年おばあちゃんThe 9th NHK Asadora. Starring Naoko Otani as a young woman living with her grandmother.
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