Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kichijirô Ueda, Toshio Takahara, Nobuo Kaneko, Kazuo Kitamura
After the defeat of the Russian forces by the Japanese, Kaji leads the remaining Japanese soldiers through Manchuria. He who wants to return to his beloved wife and his past life, faces a difficult situation. He enters the enemy lines with his men and...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Atsushi Watanabe
Japan, early 19th century. "Doctor Naidi" (Mifone), known as "Red Beard", is the doctor in charge of a poor general clinic. "Dr. Noburo Yasumoto" (Kayama), a new assistant doctor, despite his initial disobedience to "Red Beard", including his excessive drinking and unusual clothing, finally learns that a good doctor must make sacrifices.
Stars: Yôko Katsuragi, Ichirô Shimizu, Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura
Noriko is 27 years old and still lives with her widowed father. Everyone wants to convince her to marry, but she wants to stay at home and take care of her father...
Stars: Jun Fubuki, Takeo Chii, Chishû Ryû, Takashi Sasano, Hidetaka Yoshioka
One of the spin-offs of "From the North" tells the life story of "Fiyo".
Stars: Nobuo Nakamura, Tôru Abe, Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara
An old couple visits their children and grandchildren in the city, and are ignored...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Nobuo Nakamura, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Miyake
An old widower arranges the marriage of his only daughter...
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: Isuzu Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara, Eiko Miyoshi, Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura
Two sisters search for their missing mother, but the younger sister cannot come to terms with the fact that she was abandoned by her mother as a child...
Stars: Yasuaki Kurata, Alan Poul, Haruko Katô, Hiroshi Mikami, Ken Ogata
A fictional story in four parts of the life of the respected Japanese author, Yukio Mishima...
Stars: Kôji Mitsui, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Mutsuko Sakura, Toyo Takahashi
The head of a traveling theater troupe returns to the small beach town where he left his son, who he thinks is his uncle, and tries to clear things up with him one last time and have a relationship, but his lover becomes jealous...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Susumu Fujita
A young man marries the daughter of a corrupt factory owner to bring justice to his father's suicide.
Stars: Yôko Tsukasa, Nobuo Nakamura, Fumio Watanabe, Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara
A widow tries to marry her daughter, with the help of three of her late husband's friends...
Stars: Hideyo Amamoto, Chieko Naniwa, Toshio Takahara, Rei Miura, Nijiko Kiyokawa
A teacher named Hisako Oishi tries to encourage the students with a positive view of the world and their place in it, but he knows that most of them will be killed in the war...
Stars: Eiko Miyoshi, Taiji Tonoyama, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Miyake
Two boys observe fasting to persuade their parents to buy a television set...
Stars: Chieko Naniwa, Nobuo Nakamura, Fumio Watanabe, Chishû Ryû, Hisao Toake
A businessman gets into trouble with his eldest daughter because of her choice in a wife...
Stars: Chishû Ryû, Tomio Aoki, Masao Hayama, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Seiichi Katô
When two brothers realize that their father is not the most important person in his workplace, they start to have a bad temper...
Stars: Shin'ichi Himori, Chishû Ryû, Tomio Aoki, Yoshiko Tsubouchi, Masao Hayama
A widow sends her son away for a better education. Years later, he meets him, and finds out that the boy has become a poor school teacher with a wife and a son...
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Mitsunori Isaki, Toshie Negishi, Masuo Amada, Tetsu Watanabe
A collection of stories based on the real dreams of the famous Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.
Stars: Yôko Tsukasa, Daisuke Katô, Chieko Naniwa, Yû Fujiki, Akira Takarada
The family of an elderly man who owns a small sake brewery is worried about his financial situation and health after they discover that he has been meeting an elderly lover from his teenage years...
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...
