木下惠介
In 1950, she left Shintoho and became a freelance actress. Her films with directors Keisuke Kinoshita and Mikio Naruse during the 1950s made her Japan's top star. Notable films of this decade include Kinoshita's satirical comedy "Carmen Comes Home" (1951), Japan's first feature length colour film, and the antiwar drama "Twenty-Four Eyes" (1954), and Naruse's "Floating Clouds" (1955) and "When a Woman Ascends the Stairs" (1960).