
7.8
Street of Shame
IMDb: 7.8 1956 87 min
The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

7.1
Princess Yang Kwei Fei
IMDb: 7.1 1955 98 min
In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that ...

7.4
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
IMDb: 7.4 1955 94 min
Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various ...

8.3
Sansho the Bailiff
IMDb: 8.3 1954 124 min
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family’s patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.

8
The Crucified Lovers
IMDb: 8 1954 102 min
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find ...

7.6
A Geisha
IMDb: 7.6 1953 85 min
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to ...

8.1
The Life of Oharu
IMDb: 8.1 1952 136 min
In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman’s banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

7.6
Drunken Angel
IMDb: 7.6 1948 98 min
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to ...

7.2
Osaka Elegy
IMDb: 7.2 1936 71 min
Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss so she can pay her father’s debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.

7.4
Sisters of the Gion
IMDb: 7.4 1936 69 min
Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt ...