Stars: Sachio Sakai, Noriko Honma, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Yûnosuke Itô, Burt Kwouk
In ancient China, about a thousand years ago, a tyrannical government ruled over the people. 1008 rebellious people decided to change the story and overthrow the oppressive government.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Ichirô Nakatani, Akira Tani, Noriko Sengoku
A collection of four old Japanese tales, with a supernatural profile.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Hideyo Amamoto, Yasuzô Ogawa, Rinsaku Ogata
Two ronin, a samurai and a farmer, get caught up in the complex and dangerous game of the local authorities and...
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Rokkô Toura, Taiji Tonoyama, Eitarô Ozawa, Chisako Hara
After receiving a shocking telegram from his cousin, a man reminisces about his early life as part of a large family with dark secrets that slowly reveal themselves in circles...
Stars: Toshie Negishi, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Yukiji Asaoka, Hôsei Komatsu, Akira Nakao
The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) who is in Tokyo and returns to his hometown Nagano after the death of his father.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kamatari Fujiwara, Fumio Watanabe, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Tetsurô Tanba
An outlaw pushes the populace of Ido's red-light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws...
Stars: Shôbun Inoue, Asao Uchida, Yoshi Katô, Tôru Abe, Atsuo Nakamura
Thirsty for revenge, Jukichi attempts to assassinate Chuguro but ends up being captured by the yakuza...
Stars: Sachio Sakai, Jun Hamamura, Akira Nakao, Atsuo Nakamura, Kayo Matsuo
Kiko and her friend are trying to find her missing brother after he disappears...
Stars: Ikio Sawamura, Gen Shimizu, Shôbun Inoue, Saburô Date, Hisao Toake
Can a sinful man change and find peace? Unlikely in gang-ridden Japan. Mikugami's Jokichi, a drifter, immediately goes into trouble after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi follows his father's profession...
Stars: Calvin Jung, Scott Glenn, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi
An American boxer gets caught in a fight between two Japanese brothers and...
Stars: Mako, Gaku Yamamoto, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Shôhei Hino, Shima Iwashita
When a high-ranking military commander named Nobunaga Oda consolidated his power in Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a generation of assassins from the face of the earth. He massacred all the men, women and children of a village. Years later, one of the survivors hires a young but seasoned assassin to avenge the deaths of his friends and family. His mission is to break into a very strong and guarded castle in Japan and kill the supreme ruler of that country.
Stars: Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Jun Murakami, Ichirôta Miyakawa, Atsuo Nakamura, Masaki Suda
At the age of 5, the girl's mother dies in an accident, from then on, the daughter herself turns to her future world alone and...
Stars: Shun Sugata, Motokatsu Suzuki, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Takao Osawa, Yuki Saitô
The film depicts a young boy's first encounter with real fear in his never-ending quest for courage...
