Filmography
- No Poster
The 47 Ronins of Ako
1979 · Writer

Onibaba
1964 · Director, Writer
- No Poster
Bijin Koroshi Series
1981 · Writer

Hachiko
1987 · Writer

The Naked Island
1960 · Director, Writer

Hachiko
2023 · Writer

The Perfect Education
1999 · Writer

Irezumi
1966 · Writer

Edo Porn
1981 · Director, Writer

Kuroneko
1968 · Director, Writer

Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
1983 · Writer

Manji
1964 · Writer

The Battle of Okinawa
1971 · Writer

By Player
2000 · Director, Writer, Acting

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
1966 · Writer

The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1992 · Director, Writer

The Three Undelivered Letters
1979 · Writer

Seisaku's Wife
1965 · Writer

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
1972 · Writer

Sorrow Is Only for Women
1958 · Director, Writer

Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
1973 · Writer

Elegant Beast
1962 · Writer

A Last Note
1995 · Director, Writer

Fighting Elegy
1966 · Writer

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1975 · Director, Writer, Acting

Lucky Dragon No. 5
1959 · Director, Writer

Postcard
2010 · Director, Writer

Clothes of Deception
1951 · Writer

A Man from Akagi
1950 · Writer

The Incident
1978 · Writer

Children of Hiroshima
1952 · Director, Writer

Owl
2003 · Director, Writer

Black Lizard
1962 · Writer

Kanawa
1972 · Director, Writer

The Gambling Samurai
1960 · Writer

The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1948 · Writer

Victory of Women
1946 · Writer

Destiny's Son
1962 · Writer

Strong Women, Weak Men
1968 · Director, Writer

Their Legacy
1962 · Writer

Miniature
1953 · Director, Writer

Life of a Woman
1953 · Director, Writer

The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1968 · Writer

Love and Duty
1954 · Writer

Thousand Cranes
1969 · Writer

Hymn
1972 · Director, Writer, Acting

Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1970 · Director, Writer

The Heart
1973 · Director, Writer

Night Drum
1958 · Writer

Reminiscence
1953 · Writer

The Geisha House
1999 · Writer

Cape Ashizuri
1954 · Writer

Saijoke no kyoen
1951 · Writer

Conquest
1965 · Director, Writer

Freedom School
1951 · Writer
- No Poster
A Fallen Woman
1967 · Writer

Devil's Temple
1969 · Writer

The Strangling
1979 · Director, Writer

The Whale God
1962 · Writer

Devotion to Railway
1960 · Writer

Love is Lost
1956 · Director, Writer

Here's to the Young Lady
1949 · Writer

Wandering Shore
1956 · Director, Writer

Human
1962 · Director, Writer

Black Board
1986 · Director, Writer

Mother
1963 · Director, Writer

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953 · Writer

Sisters of Nishijin
1952 · Writer

Alps Story: The Wild
1950 · Writer

Marriage
1947 · Writer

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967 · Writer

The Bells of Nagasaki
1950 · Writer

My Way
1974 · Director, Writer

The Tale of Genji
1951 · Writer

Teacher and Three Children
2008 · Director, Writer

On This Earth
1957 · Writer

The Wayside Pebble
1960 · Writer

Before the Dawn
1953 · Writer

Yonjū-hassai no teikō
1956 · Writer

The Wolves
1955 · Director, Writer

Will to Live
1999 · Director, Writer

Break Down that Wall
1959 · Writer

Actress
1987 · Writer

Flame of My Love
1949 · Writer

Dancing Girl
1951 · Writer

Dynamite Doctor
1966 · Writer

The Ball at the Anjo House
1947 · Writer

The Perennial Weed
1975 · Writer

But the Flesh is Weak
1957 · Writer

This Madding Crowd
1962 · Writer

Heat Wave Island
1969 · Director, Writer

Pursuit At Dawn
1950 · Writer

The Precipice
1958 · Writer

Master Fencer Sees the World
1960 · Writer

Shadow Conspirator
1982 · Writer

The Life of Chikuzan
1977 · Director, Writer

To the Ends of the Earth
1953 · Writer

Lost Sex
1966 · Director, Writer

The Naked Sun
1958 · Writer

Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl
1972 · Writer

Dynamite Doctor Returns
1966 · Writer

Tsumiki kuzushi
1983 · Writer

Story of a Beloved Wife
1951 · Director, Writer

Tree Without Leaves
1986 · Director, Writer

Judge of the Ashuras
1951 · Writer

Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949 · Writer

Two Wives
1967 · Writer

Stolen Pleasure
1962 · Writer

Hell's Assassin
1962 · Writer

The Navy
1963 · Writer

When Women Lie
1963 · Writer

The Lowest Man
1958 · Writer

The Telephone Rings in the Evening
1959 · Writer

Shojohou
1950 · Writer
- No Poster
ゼロの焦点
1991 · Writer

Drunken Harbor
1966 · Writer

Forbidden Lips
1958 · Writer

Kōfuku no genkai
1948 · Writer

Sakura-tai Chiru
1988 · Director, Writer

I Lived, But...
1983 · Acting

The Suitors
1967 · Writer

Ameyuki-san
1979 · Writer

Tokyo Elegy
1951 · Writer

Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971 · Writer

Magnitude 7.9
1980 · Writer

Diary of Forsaken Love
1959 · Writer

Ano sora no hate ni hoshi wa matataku
1962 · Writer

The Shadow of Fear
1956 · Writer

Wakai hito-tachi
1954 · Writer

Jōen no hatoba
1951 · Writer

Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
1973 · Writer

Faraway Sunset
1992 · Writer

The Horizon
1984 · Director, Writer

Harbor Rats
1957 · Director, Writer

The End of the War
1950 · Writer

A Design for Dying
1961 · Writer

The Lovers
1961 · Director, Writer
- No Poster
Avalanche
1952 · Director, Writer

The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1950 · Writer

Libido
1967 · Director, Writer

Desire
1953 · Writer

The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge
1981 · Writer
- No Poster
How Sorrowful
1956 · Writer

The Beauty and the Dragon
1955 · Writer

Onibaba : Film Location
1964 · Acting

Women of Ginza
1955 · Writer

The Shadow Daughter
1957 · Writer

Sabakareru Echizen no kami
1962 · Writer

Suruga Yūkyōden: Gambling Hall Robbery
1964 · Writer

Talented Woman
1959 · Writer

Dangerous Liaisons
1978 · Writer

Camellia Gate
1964 · Writer

The Women of Osaka Castle
1983 · Writer

As the Clouds Scatter
1961 · Writer

The Life and Love of Kenji Miyazawa
1996 · Writer

Actress
1956 · Director, Writer

Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
1983 · Writer

Sweet Secret
1971 · Writer

Warriors of Ako: Scroll of Heaven, Scroll of Earth
1956 · Writer

Strange Affinity
1970 · Director, Writer

Spring Snow
1950 · Writer

A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960 · Writer

Haitoku no mesu
1961 · Writer

A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
2001 · Writer

The Aristocrat's Stairs
1959 · Writer

Rennyo and His Mother
1981 · Writer

Great X
1948 · Writer

The Woman Who Holds the Key
1946 · Writer

If Indeed One Loves
1955 · Writer
- No Poster
Horror of the Giant Vortex
1978 · Writer

Ditch
1954 · Director, Writer

The Bride from Japan
1959 · Director, Writer

Turbid Youth
1954 · Writer

Don't Mind
1990 · Writer

Who's the Real Killer
1957 · Writer

Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
1965 · Writer

The Gorgeous Geisha
1964 · Writer

Challenge to Live
1961 · Writer

Netsuai sha
1961 · Writer
- No Poster
Solitude Point
1998 · Writer

Who Will Judge Me?
1951 · Writer

The Great Road
1960 · Writer

The Lucky General
1962 · Writer

The Ladder of Success
1958 · Writer

A Nice Guy
1960 · Writer

Izayoi kaidō
1951 · Writer

The Matsukawa Incident
1961 · Writer

Easy-Going Married Couple
1956 · Writer

Japanese Cinema: New Territories
2011 · Acting

Crossroads in Tokyo
1991 · Writer
- No Poster
The Motherless
1955 · Writer

Face in the Dark
1958 · Writer
- No Poster
Waiting Woman
1946 · Writer

A Public Benefactor
1964 · Writer

Sisters
1955 · Writer

Violence
1952 · Writer

Maiko and the Assassin
1963 · Writer

The White Orchid
1951 · Writer

Wedding Day
1956 · Writer

Murahachibu
1953 · Writer

What's a Director?
2006 · Acting

The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji
1963 · Writer

Temptation
1948 · Writer
- No Poster
A Young Female Instructor
1978 · Writer

A Grain of Wheat
1958 · Writer

The Man of Rumor
1948 · Writer
- No Poster
Document 8.6
1977 · Director

Jealousy
1949 · Writer

The Battleship on the Ground
2007 · Writer, Acting

Drive for the Future
1980 · Writer
- No Poster
Otomebashi
1936 · Writer

Her Devotion
1961 · Writer
