Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshio Takahara, Nobuo Kaneko, Kazuo Kitamura, Kin Sugai
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: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Susumu Fujita
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: Gen Shimizu, Yutaka Sada, Yasuzô Ogawa, Haruo Nakajima, Yûzô Kayama
After a bombing destroys the store, his family and wife, Riko rebuilds and runs the store out of love, which was briefly stopped by the destruction.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Ichirô Nakatani, Akira Tani, Noriko Sengoku
A collection of four old Japanese tales, with a supernatural profile.
Stars: Takashi Miike, Yoshiko Tanaka, Taiji Tonoyama, Kazuko Shirakawa, Kazuo Kitamura
Mr. and Mrs. Shizuma and their nephew Yasuko make their way through the ruins of Hiroshima right after the atomic bomb. Five years later, Yasuko lives with her uncle, aunt, and grandmother in a village where most of the survivors of the bombing are located. She does not seem to be affected by the bomb, but Shizuma is worried about her future and...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Susumu Fujita, Sachio Sakai, Yoshio Tsuchiya
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: 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: Seiji Miyaguchi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Yoshi Katô, Yoshie Kitsuda, Taiji Tonoyama
Sadako grew up as a servant in her husband's family, who treats her like a slave. She is raped while her husband is in another place. A strange relationship is formed between the rapist who pursues the terrified woman and Sadako, whose intention to kill her leads to a strange end and...
Stars: Paul Frees, Susumu Fujita, Richard Erdman, Jason Robards, Walter Brooke
This movie is about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the mistakes of the Americans that caused this to happen...
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: Yûnosuke Itô, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kazuo Kitamura, Hôsei Komatsu, Yûji Shikamata
A science teacher makes an atomic bomb and uses it to extort the nation, but he doesn't really know what he's doing and what his purpose is...
Stars: Seizaburô Kawazu, Asao Koike, Hiroyuki Nagato, Toshio Takahara, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Tome was born in poverty in the rural areas of Japan in the late 1910s. She falls in love with a neighbor and starts working in his factory when World War II begins. After a secret relationship with one of the employees, she goes to Tokyo to achieve success and...
Stars: Yoshio Inaba, Gô Katô, Daigo Kusano, Kazuo Kitamura, Haruko Sugimura
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: Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura, Kazuo Kitamura, Haruko Sugimura, Sô Yamamura
Story 1: "The Thirteenth Night". Seki comes to his parents' house in the middle of the night and...
Stars: Asao Uchida, Chôchô Miyako, Taiji Tonoyama, Kazuo Kitamura, Kin Sugai
The film narrates the life story of a producer of adult films who tries to stay away from the eyes of the mafia...
Stars: Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Torahiko Hamada, Kazuo Kitamura, Akiji Kobayashi, Tôru Emori
Stars: Yoshio Inaba, Asao Koike, Tetsurô Tanba, Ken Ogata, Torahiko Hamada
Love and tribulations of a geisha in 1933 Japan.
Stars: Hiroko Yashiki, Troy Baker, Renji Ishibashi, Yukie Nakama, R. Bruce Elliott
After nearly four hundred years of fighting the shinobi fighters and the Sobagakure Iga group, Lord Hattori declares that they must make peace with each other. After this story, they live in secret mountains. In 1614, the king of the region is convinced that this group is a threat to maintaining peace in the region and decides to destroy them...
Stars: Isao Kimura, Mayumi Ogawa, Kazuo Kitamura, Kikuo Kaneuchi, Kyôko Seki
The story of a couple who cannot have children and the man decides to get his wife pregnant through artificial insemination, but things do not happen as expected.
Stars: Yasuaki Kurata, Kaori Momoi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Yûko Tanaka, Hiroshi Inuzuka
Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura.
