Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Susumu Fujita, Shôji Ôki, Minoru Chiaki, Shôbun Inoue
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army but is harassed by the veterans. During his service, he observed many brutalities in the army and protested against the mistreatment of new trainees...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura
The production line manager of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his driver's son is kidnapped, leaving him at a moral dilemma.
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa, Takamaru Sasaki, Isao Yamagata
The mother of the only heir of a feudal lord is kidnapped from her husband. The wife along with her samurai father must decide whether they can accept this cruel decision or risk their lives to get her back...
Stars: Sanpei Mine, Yûnosuke Itô, Tanie Kitabayashi, Kunitarô Sawamura, Jun Hamamura
At the end of Mizushima's war with the mountain, he is sent to convince a Japanese company to surrender. He is defeated and the British forces attack, many of his comrades are killed. He survives and disguises himself as a Buddhist monk and...
Stars: Yoshio Inaba, Manabu Morita, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Jun Hamamura, Yûzô Hayakawa
In the final days of World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers are abandoned by their commander and face the problem of starvation...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Ichirô Nakatani, Akira Tani, Noriko Sengoku
A collection of four old Japanese tales, with a supernatural profile.
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Susumu Fujita, Takeshi Katô
After the detonation of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese army and government are faced with demands from the Allies for unconditional surrender. The Japanese defense minister leads officers who believe that even to the death of all Japanese citizens, they must continue to fight and...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Yoshi Katô, Tokie Hidari, Kichiemon Nakamura, Shima Iwashita
A doomed love between a paper merchant and a prostitute...
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: 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: Mansaku Fuwa, Yoshi Katô, Teruo Matsuyama, Saburô Date, Kaoru Kobayashi
A traveling blind musician is abused while touring the country, even as the modern world claims that people's behavior has changed...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Mikijirô Hira, Noriko Sengoku
On his deathbed, wealthy businessman Beck announces that all his wealth will be divided between his three illegitimate children, whose existence is hidden from his family and colleagues. A group of his colleagues and lawyers are trying to get his money and...
Stars: Takeshi Katô, Yoshio Inaba, Gô Katô, Daigo Kusano, Kazuo Kitamura
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko grows up as a prostitute dancer. One day, Tomoko meets her mother in a forbidden area in Tokyo, and that's enough for her life to get into trouble.
Stars: Yoshi Katô, Yukio Horikita, Mizuho Suzuki, Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa
When Suchiki no longer provides money for his old lover Kikuyu to take care of his three children, he and Suchiki abandon their children and disappear...
Stars: Taiji Tonoyama, Jun Hamamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô, Sumie Sasaki
Kajin Mura ship after passing through a severe storm; It has lost almost all its stored food and water, and now its 4 passengers are in danger of death...
Stars: Tomisaburô Wakayama, Yoshi Katô, Teruo Matsuyama, Kôji Sekiyama, Tamaki Katsura
A mountain man hunts a beautiful, but cunning urban woman, and does everything to satisfy her every kind of desire...
Stars: Yoshi Katô, Saburô Date, Tokio Oki, Shintarô Katsu, Kazuo Hasegawa
Yukinojo, a kabuki actor, takes revenge by killing the three men who killed his parents...
Stars: Akira Kubo, Yoshio Inaba, Gô Katô, Yoshi Katô, Hiroshi Takahashi
Two detectives are investigating the murder of an old man on the Tokyo railway and...
Stars: Kanae Kobayashi, Shintarô Katsu, Mayumi Ogawa, Jun Hamamura, Kei Satô
Promised to deliver a shipment to a dying man, the blind swordsman encounters criminal gangs as usual and also meets a blind monk who...
Stars: Miki Sanjô, Kazunaga Tsuji, Kayoko Shiraishi, Kuniko Miyake, Jun Hamamura
The film is the story of four sisters who come together every year to see the cherry blossoms in Tokyo. The film shows a clear picture of Japan before the war and...
