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: 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: Bokuzen Hidari, Tôru Abe, Shirô Ôsaka, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka
Fumiko, a mother of two and wife to a cheating husband with low self-esteem, combines her family life with her career as a poet. The beginning of his successful literary career at the same time as divorce and...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Kichijirô Ueda, Nakajirô Tomita, Mikijirô Hira, Bokuzen Hidari
"Shiba", a wandering samurai, encounters a group of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictator lord in the hope of reducing taxes. "Shiba" joins them and two traitorous samurai from the ruling guard named "Sakura" and "Kikiyo". The three outlaws find themselves in the middle of a life and death struggle...
Stars: Yoshi Katô, Rin'ichi Yamamoto, Tetsurô Tanba, Kikue Môri, Takahiro Tamura
After killing a high-ranking samurai in an illegal duel, a low-ranking samurai...
Stars: Yoshio Inaba, Isao Kimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshi Katô, Sakae Umezu
The film is the story of two young people named "Mitsuko" and "Kando" who commit violence against society in various ways and try to stay together despite many problems...
Stars: Masahiro Higashide, Kazue Tsunogae, Akira Emoto, Junkichi Orimoto, Mitsuko Kusabue
Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nurse's aide. A man's family has asked Sava to sleep with an old man who has caused her to lose her job and place to sleep. Now he has nowhere to go. Sava finds elderly people who have problems and in...
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Takashi Noguchi, Asao Uchida, Nobuo Kaneko, Kunie Tanaka
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Toshirô Mifune, Tôru Minegishi, Shin'ichi Chiba, Yoshi Katô
Samurai and peasants unite to avenge their hanged prince.
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: Gen Shimizu, Isao Kimura, Tetsurô Tanba, Eitarô Ozawa, Omenosuke Ichikawa
In 1863, when the American warship arrived in Japan, a mysterious ronin becomes an important person in the complex power game between the Pagonite and the Empire...
Stars: Isao Natsuyagi, Kyôichi Satô, Ryôhei Uchida, Junkichi Orimoto, Toyoko Takechi
A charismatic ronin gets snared into a conflict between officials at a waystation, and gains the enmity of a group of thugs.
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Nobuo Kaneko, Nagisa Ôshima, Hideo Murota, Kin Sugai
A police inspector intervenes in the work of the yakuza, but as soon as he realizes that the police are negotiating with these groups, he unites with his group and...
Stars: Yû Fujiki, Akira Nagoya, Chieko Baishô, Hideo Murota, Akira Hamada
A person is constantly tested and faced with tragedy, wherever he goes, he is involved in it, a man can finally face the peace and perfection of love or rest with what he has left from his hometown, his family, love or himself.
Stars: Takamaru Sasaki, Jun Tatara, Yûnosuke Itô, Kôji Mitsui, Hisao Toake
A talent scout is determined to bring a promising athlete into his team...
Stars: Seizaburô Kawazu, Isao Kimura, Kyôichi Satô, Keiko Awaji, Tetsurô Tanba
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while on a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking on a new identity as a gorge maker, he searches for a stolen jar that has hidden significance for his tribe. But the gorge builder has his own reasons for looking for the jar...
Stars: Rokkô Toura, Taiji Tonoyama, Moeko Ezawa, Hôsei Komatsu, Kumeko Urabe
For 50 years, the blind musician has been traveling all over Japan and becoming famous...
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: Seizô Fukumoto, Jun Tatara, Takeo Chii, Rin'ichi Yamamoto, Takashi Naitô
Sugawara plays Nozaki, a laborer who swears allegiance to a sympathetic crime boss, only to find himself elected his successor after the boss is murdered. Restrained by a gang alliance that...
Stars: Isao Kimura, Isao Yamagata, Eitarô Ozawa, Haruko Chichibu, Tatsuya Ishiguro
A romantic drama about a family of flower sellers directed by Masaki Kobayashi.
