Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

The adventures of a young cat and a dog as they find themselves accidentally separated and each swept into a hazardous trek.(imdb)

A young girl finds that all the books she chooses in the library have been previously checked out by the same boy... (imdb)

The story of a Ronin (i.e. a masterless samurai) who wanders the countryside of Japan with his small child, having various adventures. (imdb)

In detailed fashion, the film investigates the troubled psyche of a dull, uneducated lower-class housewife in a backward northeastern, province. The woman is so stupid that she is scarcely aware of the drabness of her life with a petty, bickering husband and his whining mother, or of her own thwarted sensuality... (IMDB Comments)

Once Tome becomes of a mature age, she leaves home to work at a factory and has an affair with her boss. She later leaves the factory and works as a maid in a Japanese-American household. (imdb comments)

On the face of it, a documentary about an ordinary man who -- like many Japanese every year --disappears without trace, leaving his job and fiancee behind, Imamura takes the narrative in unexpected directions, causing the viewer to question what is reality and what might be fiction (Wikipedia)

Eijanaika is a dramatization of a brief but critical moment in Japanese history when Japan emerges from two centuries of isolationism in the 1860s. This new regime proves more receptive to opening Japan up to trade from the West--particularly America. The story is told through the eyes of a Japanese peasant who has just spent several years in America after being shipwrecked. (All Movie Guide)

A woman lets her paramour take naked pictures of her which reaches the hands of a stalker.

"Kiri no Hata" revolves around the failings of the Japanese judicial system and the efforts of the sister of a falsely indicted defendant to gain representation by a prominent Tokyo defense attorney. (KG)

This is the original 1964 version of author Futaro Yamada's "Kunoichi Ninpocho" produced by Toei and starring Yumiko Nogawa.

A diligent police detective brings a kidnapper to justice after a chase through the yakuza underworld.

Gen, a former ninja with a price on his head travels about Japan seeking the identity of the mysterious “Kagekubo” leader of his former group who issued a death warrant on him for desertion. (KG & me)