Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Tani, Jun Ôtomo, Takamaru Sasaki, Seiji Miyaguchi
During World War II, Kaji, a peace-loving man, travels to a small village with his wife, Michiko, to work as a supervisor in an iron mine to avoid being drafted into the army. When the military police send six hundred Chinese prisoners to work in the mine, Kenji talks to their leader to control the Khushan. But his methods upset the corrupt system there and...
Stars: Kokuten Kôdô, Seiji Miyaguchi, Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara
A family chooses a marriage for their daughter Noriko, but surprisingly, she has plans of her own...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura, Chieko Nakakita, Junji Masuda
A young man and his wife struggle with their loveless marriage as the man has a secret love affair...
Stars: Keiko Tsushima, Chishû Ryû, Kuniko Miyake, Hisao Toake, Eijirô Yanagi
A childless middle-aged married couple faces a marital crisis...
Stars: Yôko Tsukasa, Daisuke Katô, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Yutaka Sada, Noriko Honma
A widow runs a farm with her young son and her mother-in-law. When the reporter comes to interview him, a relationship is unintentionally formed between them that...
Stars: Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura, Kazuo Kitamura, Haruko Sugimura, Sô Yamamura
Story 1: "The Thirteenth Night". Seki comes to his parents' house in the middle of the night and...
Stars: Yôko Tsukasa, Ikio Sawamura, Akira Tani, Shôichi Hirose, Senkichi Ômura
This movie tells the story of a couple, a boy and a girl in elementary school Osaka...
Stars: Jun Tatara, Toshio Takahara, Yûnosuke Itô, Yôichi Numata, Kinuyo Tanaka
A young son has formed an idealized image of his father, who has not yet been returned from Russia. When they finally meet, they can't stand each other. The boy is more and more towards...
Stars: Isao Yamagata, Eitarô Ozawa, Hisao Toake, Yatarô Kurokawa, Ryôsuke Kagawa
Kurando is a retired samurai who has decided to retire and enjoy his last days with one of the two kabuki actors...
Stars: Takeshi Katô, Gô Katô, Yukiyo Toake, Shinobu Ôtake, Chikage Awashima
It shows the story of a survivor of the atomic bombing in Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. This survivor is trying to...
Stars: Mikijirô Hira, Shin'ichi Chiba, Tetsurô Tanba, Taiji Tonoyama, Chikage Awashima
Stars: Seiji Miyaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi, Chishû Ryû, Koreya Senda, Nobuo Takagi
A film by prolific Japanese director Keisuke Kinoshita, adapted from a novel, which is about two journalists and their beloved women, but if we look deeper, it is about our moral choices and the consequences and rewards we get from our early life decisions.
