Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Atsushi Watanabe
Japan, early 19th century. "Doctor Naidi" (Mifone), known as "Red Beard", is the doctor in charge of a poor general clinic. "Dr. Noburo Yasumoto" (Kayama), a new assistant doctor, despite his initial disobedience to "Red Beard", including his excessive drinking and unusual clothing, finally learns that a good doctor must make sacrifices.
Stars: Chieko Naniwa, Saburô Date, Yukio Horikita, Tokio Oki, Jun Fujikawa
11th century Japan. Governor Tyro is deposed and exiled for his opposition to feudal corruption. His wife Tamaki (Tanaka), son Zushio (Hanayagi) and daughter Anjou (Kagawa) are going to join him in exile...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katô, Akira Tani, Yutaka Sada, Noriko Honma
The movie tells the story of a midwife known as Kiko. She is a bartender who has to choose between marriage and buying a bar for herself. Her family wants her money, her customers want her attention, and she is constantly in debt...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Susumu Fujita
A young man marries the daughter of a corrupt factory owner to bring justice to his father's suicide.
Stars: Seiji Miyaguchi, Yûnosuke Itô, Ken Mitsuda, Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi
The film tells the story of a remote village where the lack of food has led to the passing of a law according to which people over the age of seventy must be taken by their relatives to the top of Narayama Mountain to die a natural death. Orin's grandmother, who has reached the age of seventy, is ready to face her fate and...
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: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Kamatari Fujiwara, Atsushi Watanabe
Keichi Nakajima is a Japanese factory owner who has a great fear of nuclear war. This incident affects his life and family...
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: Hideo Murota, Torahiko Hamada, Sô Yamamura, Ken Mitsuda, Takanobu Hozumi
A killer who has returned to his ruined past while his friend's desires have changed.
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Haruko Sugimura, Ken Mitsuda, Kinuyo Tanaka, Hisako Yamane
The story of a poor samurai who cannot stay with his wife and leaves her hoping to find wealth. The first part
Stars: Ken Mitsuda, Yûsuke Kawazu, Kyôko Kishida, Yûzô Hayakawa, Eiji Funakoshi
A housewife who has no children falls in love with a model...
Stars: Yoshio Inaba, Sayuri Tanima, Yôichi Numata, Fumiko Okamura, Ken Mitsuda
A drama about the lives of the people of Nagasaki and Hiroshima during the nuclear attack...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Haruko Sugimura, Ken Mitsuda, Kinuyo Tanaka, Hisako Yamane
A scary story about the life of a poor samurai who cannot stay with his wife and leaves her in the hope of finding wealth. The second part
Stars: Takashi Shimura, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Ken Mitsuda, Yukio Mishima, Mayumi Kurata
After being released from prison, a young member of the yakuza gets involved in a big murder and revenge and...
Stars: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Dominique Zardi, Henri Attal, Jean-Luc Godard, Catherine Deneuve
Four swindle stories that take place consecutively in Tokyo-Japan (Fumiko's Five Benefactors), Amsterdam-Netherlands (Diamond River), Italy (The Roadmap) and Paris-France (The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower).
