Masayuki Mori

Rashomon

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

The Bad Sleep Well

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese...

Floating Clouds

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typis...

Ugetsu

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearb...

Princess Yang Kwei-fei

In 8th-century China, the Emperor grieves the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor w...

The Idiot

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tang...

Admiral Yamamoto

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed s...

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a hostile checkpo...

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes l...

Her Brother

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family...

Untamed Woman

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to fin...

Gateway to Glory

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance pol...

Brother and Sister

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college stude...

Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two

A few years after his breakthrough, Sanshiro resumes his path to judo mastery—testing his discipline against an...

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival

The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husban...

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of...

Those Who Make Tomorrow

In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor...

The Ball at the Anjo House

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to p...

Broken Drum

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into un...

Forever a Woman

Fumiko, mother of two and wife to an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet...

The Balloon

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrog...

The Heart

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they...

The Lady of Musashino

In post-war Japan, Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, confides in her younger...

A Certain Woman

A Design for Dying

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsu...

The Other Woman

The real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, th...

Alone Across the Pacific

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in...

Kekkon Sanjûshi

Bright Sea

On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Departme...

Night Drum

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his hom...

Love Letter

Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for...

Battle Troop

Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends,...

Delinquent Girl

A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar re...

A Whistle in My Heart

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of th...

Stolen Love

Romantic melodrama