Natsuko Kahara

A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.

A destitute ronin allies himself with an established clan, but its ruthless leader tries to turn him into a mindless killer.

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world, when her grandmother dies.

For his 1st color film, Ichikawa did an Edo era story of two geishas scheming against each other for control of the Nihonbashi bridge area, and vying for the affections of a young doctor.