Chikamatsu’s Love in Osaka / Their Own World / Naniwa no koi no monogatari (1959)

Chubei has been adopted into a family to learn the business and eventually marry the daughter. Dragged by a friend/customer to the pleasure quarter, he is trapped reluctantly into spending his first night with a woman, the popular and lovely courtesan Umegawa. They fall in love, and when a rich man tries to buy Umegawa, …

Kizu Senryo/Scars of Honor (1960)

As a great clan is dissolved by the Shogun, two friends get into a rather pointless argument about who is to blame for the mess and fight a duel.  Three years later, the younger brother of the loser meets by accident the winner (Kazuo Hasegawa) and attacks him to obtain vengeance. Thus far, the plot …