
7.8
Street of Shame
IMDb: 7.8 1956 87 min
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

7.1
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
IMDb: 7.1 1955 92 min
In 8th-century China, the Emperor grieves the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may ...

7.3
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
IMDb: 7.3 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 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, ...

8
Chikamatsu Monogatari
IMDb: 8 1954 102 min
When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker 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
The Life of Oharu
IMDb: 8 1952 136 min
During the Edo Period, 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
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when ...

7.2
Osaka Elegy
IMDb: 7.2 1936 71 min
Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss in order to 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
A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife. ...