Stars: Hisako Ôkata, Yoshi Katô, Toshirô Ishidô, Toshie Negishi, Furankî Sakai
Iwa Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has a strange and inexplicable penchant for committing crazy and brutal murders. He ends up being chased by the police all over Japan but always somehow manages to escape. He meets a woman and falls in love with her.
Stars: Yoshi Katô, Taiji Tonoyama, Kazuo Kitamura, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Hôsei Komatsu
An engineer from Tokyo enters a tropical island to help a nearby sugar factory by digging a well. He met the Futuri family, who are hated by the people for breaking the old traditions, and...
Stars: Takeshi Katô, Isao Kimura, Toranosuke Ogawa, Yoshi Katô, Shun'ya Wazaki
When the fiancee of a salaried man commits suicide, he remembers the bloody history of his family who committed suicide because of their hard-hearted lord and...
Stars: Isao Natsuyagi, Michitarô Mizushima, Shun'ya Wazaki, Michimaro Kotabe, Tetsurô Tanba
A group of samurai plan to kill a sadistic feudal lord...
Stars: Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Shima Iwashita, Nobuko Sendô, Shinsuke Ashida, Toshiyuki Hosokawa
Bombing during World War II caused the entire urban population to flee, thus creating an urban-rural cultural community
Stars: Yoshio Inaba, Mikijirô Hira, Tôru Abe, Rin'ichi Yamamoto, Chôichirô Kawarasaki
A clan elder named "Shogan" runs programs like a puppet to rule. Shogan is the brother of "Tsadshig", a person who wants to run a program to help the elderly, but there is a big problem and...
Stars: Sachio Sakai, Noriko Honma, Junpei Natsuki, Richard Gere, Mitsunori Isaki
An elderly woman living in Nagasaki is responsible for taking care of her four grandchildren during the summer vacation. They learn about the atomic bomb that exploded there in 1945 and killed their grandfather...
Stars: Yoshi Katô, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Eitarô Ozawa, Sumiko Hidaka, Jun Usami
During the reign of Emperor Suzuko (946-930 AD) after the appearance of a white rainbow in the sky of Kyoto, various unfortunate events took place. The emperor ordered Yasanuri, a famous astrologer, to delve into a certain Chinese book on secrets to...
Stars: Yoshi Katô, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Shima Iwashita, Jun Hamamura, Haruhiko Saitô
A free and imaginative account of the life of a shaman queen, Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, causing her powers to wane and her position to be in jeopardy...
Stars: Naoto Takenaka, Haruko Katô, Shôhei Hino, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Kuniko Miyake
The sad story of Gonza, a handsome lady, in the Tokugawa period, when appearance was very important. Gonza competes with Banjo in pouring tea, who...
Stars: Chun-Hsiung Ko, Tetta Sugimoto, Ken Ogata, Taiji Tonoyama, Chôichirô Kawarasaki
This movie takes place in Hong Kong in the year 1911 and tells the story of a Japanese immigrant named Eiji Muraoka. He dreams of becoming a shopkeeper, but fate leads him to build a brothel for the Japanese army...
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Daigo Kusano, Daijirô Harada, Rokkô Toura, Taiji Tonoyama
After leaving high school, Michio Yamada (Norio Nagayama in the real life incidents) becomes involved in the shudan shushoku, a post-war Japanese government work program which involves taking almost an entire high school graduating class from the countryside to Tokyo to work for a fruit company. Some terrible things happened to his family in the past and that explains... Read allDirectorKaneto Shindô
Stars: Yasuaki Kurata, Kaori Momoi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Yûko Tanaka, Hiroshi Inuzuka
Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura.
Stars: Minoru Chiaki, Takamaru Sasaki, Mikijirô Hira, Yoshi Katô, Rokkô Toura
In 1637 in Shimbra, located in Tokugawa Japan, the peasants are oppressed by a charismatic Christian rebel leader named Shiro Amakusa and decide to rebel against this leader.
Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Naoto Takenaka, Furankî Sakai, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Shima Iwashita
A lazy but capable kabuki (traditional Japanese theater) actor is fired from his job by the order of the new head of the cast. A man who is very sad and disillusioned by this matter, after some time he meets a mysterious producer who helps him in this chaotic situation, motivates him and supports him to return to the theater stage, despite his refusal to achieve what he wants, i.e. popularity, honor and fame, he does whatever his producer says and gradually finds himself drowning in the abyss of corruption. The film puts the relationship between the producer and the actor under the microscope. , an actress who doesn't accept at first, but becomes a mysterious man's toy doll to get money and fame.
Stars: Naoto Takenaka, Akaji Maro, Furankî Sakai, Shôhei Hino, Chôichirô Kawarasaki
The film begins with a journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake, and then he recalls a trip he took as a child. He and his family start a journey by boat from Awaji to Bepo to bury the ashes of his older brother who was killed at the end of World War II. . .
Stars: Akitake Kôno, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Masao Mishima, Hizuru Takachiho, Minoru Ôki
The story of 47 people who plot revenge after the unjust execution of their master.
Stars: Yûki Kudô, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Yumiko Fujita, Hisashi Igawa, Kirin Kiki
The daughter of a car mechanic asks her father questions about what happened to her aunt during the war. At first, the father is silent. But finally he decides to tell the story of his sister's life.
Stars: Naoto Takenaka, Ken Ogata, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Mami Nomura, Sô Yamamura
A young woman is sold by her bankrupt father to the famous red light brothel in Yoshiwara...
Stars: Jerry Fujio, Minoru Chiaki, Mikijirô Hira, Toranosuke Ogawa, Shun'ya Wazaki
After the historic Battle of Sekigahara, a group of orphaned children roam the battlefield looking to collect armor. They meet a young boy named Sasuke who has magical powers. He claims to have come to earth via a meteorite.
