Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Masashi Ebara, Damien Thomas, Toshirô Mifune, Yôsuke Natsuki
An English navigator becomes a player and at the same time a plaything of the political games of feudal "Japan"...
Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Masashi Ebara, Damien Thomas, Toshirô Mifune, Yôsuke Natsuki
An English sailor is taken hostage in Japan and meanwhile enters the deadly political games of feudal Japan...
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: Yôko Tsukasa, Daisuke Katô, Seizaburô Kawazu, Takashi Shimura, Hiroshi Tachikawa
After the master of the forty-seven samurai is tricked into committing suicide, they decide to avenge their master's death and reclaim his honor...
Stars: Takeshi Katô, Shôbun Inoue, Toshio Takahara, Sanpei Mine, Masumi Okada
In the last days of Shojuate, a fateful escape follows the disgust of opposing prostitutes, rogue samurai and other denizens of a brothel so they can escape hard times.
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: Seizaburô Kawazu, Takashi Shimura, Shôichi Hirose, Akio Kusama, Hiroshi Takagi
When the owner of a night club kidnaps two little princes from her island, a giant butterfly (Matra) begins to assassinate the people of Japan for revenge and...
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: Yûko Tanaka, Furankî Sakai, Rokkô Toura, Ken Ogata, Taiji Tonoyama
The famous wood artist Hokusai was born in 1760. Hokusai lived in a house with a widow and her daughter. This widow needs a steady income to continue her life and...
Stars: Paul Frees, Marvin Miller, Seizaburô Kawazu, Yutaka Sada, Naoya Kusakawa
This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.
Stars: Phil Leeds, Felix Silla, Sorrell Booke, Furankî Sakai, Tetsu Nakamura
The story of the film is about an inspector who has the illusion that he is a great samurai warrior and the film takes place between modern day and ancient times...
