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: Ken Ogata, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Taiji Tonoyama, Ben Hiura, Aki Takejô
A remote village on a hill below Narayama mountain. Late winter, 19th century. The people of the village are suffering from famine, and according to tradition, the eldest son of the family must lead his parents to the top of Narayama mountain at the age of seventy to die of hunger there. But Orin (Sakamoto) is still in good health at the age of sixty-nine.
Stars: Kaori Momoi, Takuya Kimura, R. Bruce Elliott, Kenny Green, Jerry Russell
A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife who sacrifices herself to defend his honor...
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: Min Tanaka, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Yôji Matsuda, Chieko Baishô, Tomoko Tabata
In the middle of the 19th century, Yashiro bids farewell to his samurai friends Monzo and Samon and leaves his group to take up an important job in the government...
Stars: Tôru Abe, Ken Ogata, Takahiro Tamura, Kenji Imai, Asao Sano
The film tells the story of Suji Toranoske, a ronini who returns home years after attempting suicide. Being supervised by a swordsman, he has become a professional swordsman and a kind man...
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: Renji Ishibashi, Miki Sanjô, Takashi Naitô, Ken Ogata, Keizô Kanie
Poet Akiko Yosano is a poor woman with many children, she composes while doing the housework. Her passion flows towards Takeo Arishima, a noted novelist.
Stars: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Shintarô Katsu, Shinzô Hotta, Daisuke Ban, Yûya Uchida
When Zatuchi is close to his master's village, he decides to visit his master, but he finds out that his master has been killed and his daughter is forced to go to F.H.S.A. He starts researching...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Ken Ogata, Kôji Nanbara, Katsuo Nakamura
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a united and peaceful country. He serves Takeda, the lord of the Kai region. He convinces the lord to kill the lord of the neighboring region and get his wife. He then convinces Prince Yu to accept the deal and give birth to a son for Takeda and...
Stars: Chun-Hsiung Ko, Tetta Sugimoto, Ken Ogata, Taiji Tonoyama, Chôichirô Kawarasaki
This movie takes place in Hong Kong in the year 1911 and tells the story of a Japanese immigrant named Eiji Muraoka. He dreams of becoming a shopkeeper, but fate leads him to build a brothel for the Japanese army...
Stars: Yoshio Inaba, Asao Koike, Tetsurô Tanba, Ken Ogata, Torahiko Hamada
Love and tribulations of a geisha in 1933 Japan.
Stars: Ken Ogata, Yukiyo Toake, Kôichi Satô, Masako Natsume, Tappei Shimokawa
A young man who tries to overcome his anger towards him by approaching the father of a girl he is interested in by asking to learn the secrets of business...
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Takeshi Maya, Hiroyuki Nagato, Shin'ichi Chiba, Tetsurô Tanba
Imitsu doesn't like his eldest son, but his youngest son is his favorite child. One day he orders his eldest son to...
Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Tanvi Azmi, Kumiko Asô, Ken Ogata, Akira Emoto
The effects of the September 11 terrorist attack are narrated from different perspectives of people from all over the world...
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.
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.
Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Seizô Fukumoto, Shin'ichi Chiba, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Asao Uchida
This villain is called Amakusa Shiro Tokaisada. He is actually based on a real Christian samurai. This movie is one of the inspirations of the game called "Samurai Shodown".
Stars: Naoto Takenaka, Ken Ogata, Kin Sugai, Nenji Kobayashi, Junko Miyashita
A man who was jailed after confessing to murdering his family escapes. His only chance for freedom is his new love who tries to protect him from the authorities.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Isao Natsuyagi, Naoto Takenaka, Tetsurô Tanba, Ken Ogata
A woman follows in her dead father's footsteps and gambles to see her father's killer in action.
