Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Nakajirô Tomita, Yoshio Inaba, Ryûtarô Gomi
When a samurai requests a harakiri (samurai suicide) from a capitalist lord, he tells him the story of another samurai who came there a few days ago for the same thing, and the samurai also reveals the story of his meeting with the other samurai, and at the same time, questions the correctness of the lord's group.
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katô
A cunning warrior comes to a city divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other in order to liberate the city.
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ichirô Nakatani, Hideyo Amamoto
Rinosuke is a samurai without pity or moral qualities. When he is selected to participate in his school's fencing competition, his rival's wife begs him to give up the fight and offers himself to her in return. He accepts the woman's offer, but kills her husband in the fight and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Ichirô Nakatani, Akira Tani, Noriko Sengoku
A collection of four old Japanese tales, with a supernatural profile.
Stars: Ichirô Nakatani, Kikuo Kaneuchi, Kin Sugai, Yoshiko Maki, Eitarô Ozawa
A reporter interviews an elderly woman who, like many Japanese women in the first half of the 20th century, was forced to work abroad...
Stars: Ichirô Nakatani, Isao Yamagata, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Gô Katô, Yûko Hama
Ogami Ito volunteers to rescue a tortured woman and is hired by their leader to kill an officer...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Kanae Kobayashi, Shintarô Katsu, Akira Shimizu
Destitute Ronini joins a new group, but the group's ruthless leader tries to turn him into a cold-blooded killer...
Stars: Ichirô Nakatani, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Mayumi Ogawa, Haruko Sugimura
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Hideyo Amamoto, Yoshio Inaba, Mikijirô Hira
A bankrupt man, just released from prison, reluctantly agrees to kill three men, but changes his mind when a group of gangsters target the same men. He then tries to understand why these men are victims.
Stars: Ichirô Nakatani, Asao Uchida, Yoshi Katô, Saburô Date, Ryûtarô Gomi
A samurai who adheres to noble principles out of simplicity, bitterly realizes that his loyalty to samurai moral values has made him an outcast among his fellow soldiers and, as a result, extremely vulnerable.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Hideyo Amamoto, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Yûnosuke Itô
During World War II, a Japanese soldier joins a "kamikaze" mission against an American ship and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Daigo Kusano, Shintarô Katsu, Takeshi Ôbayashi
The story of the film goes back to the time when the Japanese government did not allow its people to do any business, but in the meantime, a person does an unusual business.
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Takashi Noguchi, Ichirô Nakatani, Shin'ichi Chiba, Takeo Chii
A group of yakuza move from Osaka hoping to dominate the snowy region of Hokuwariko and start a bloody war with local gangs.
Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Seizô Fukumoto, Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Ichirô Nakatani
Following the death of the Tokugawa Shogun, it was revealed that he had been poisoned by his son's guards in hopes of getting him despite his stuttering and birthmark that undermined his respectability. Imitsu and...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Ichirô Nakatani, Sachio Sakai, Hideyo Amamoto, Nakajirô Tomita
A poor servant, who dressed in the uniform of the royal army and introduced himself instead of one of them, returns to his village after ten years to root out corruption...
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Ichirô Nakatani, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Kyôichi Satô, Nobuo Kaneko
Bunta Sugawara Miyoshi is a petty assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to prison. In this regard, family members try to take power from the boss in a state of confusion.
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Ichirô Nakatani, Asao Uchida, Mika Kitagawa
Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a group of students into a group of assassins, known as the Shinsen group. Kondo is the leader of the group...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ichirô Nakatani, Sachio Sakai, Yutaka Sada
Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War IIs Battle of Okinawa - a massive amphibious assault by U.S. troops that left more than 150,000 Japanese civilians dead.
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Ichirô Nakatani, Isao Natsuyagi, Kyôichi Satô, Ryôhei Uchida
Kiba gets caught up in a conspiracy between a fraudulent gold mine owner, a cynical swordsman, a lady and an arrogant dojo master...
Stars: Ichirô Nakatani, Hideyo Amamoto, Shôji Ôki, Yû Fujiki, Kyûsaku Shimada
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place between captors and captive, to the difficulty and eventual astonishment of the prefectures Chief of Police.
