Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Nakajirô Tomita, Yoshio Inaba, Ryûtarô Gomi
When a samurai requests a harakiri (samurai suicide) from a capitalist lord, he tells him the story of another samurai who came there a few days ago for the same thing, and the samurai also reveals the story of his meeting with the other samurai, and at the same time, questions the correctness of the lord's group.
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: 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: Yôko Katsuragi, Ichirô Shimizu, Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura
Noriko is 27 years old and still lives with her widowed father. Everyone wants to convince her to marry, but she wants to stay at home and take care of her father...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Toranosuke Ogawa, Noriko Sengoku
A fifty-year-old woman who can no longer attract men takes a look at her sad life. When Oharu was in the imperial court, she fell in love with a man below her level. Their relationship is revealed and Uharu and his family are exiled. For him, the next events bring a life of humiliation...
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: Isuzu Yamada, Yoshi Katô, Sakae Umezu, Shizue Kawarazaki, Masao Mishima
This work is a wonderful and extremely realistic film that tells the story of the day of the atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima and the events that followed...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Noriko Honma, Eiko Miyoshi, Chieko Nakakita, Sadako Sawamura
A teenage girl who witnesses her widowed mother's efforts to maintain the family.
Stars: Takeshi Katô, Hiroyuki Nagato, Toshio Takahara, Tetsurô Tanba, Taiji Tonoyama
Having lived in poverty, Kinta decides to join the local yakuza. Greed drives him to smuggle drugs and people and fills his group's jeep. One day, he becomes responsible for taking care of the mafia boss's pigs, which is located near an American military base, and...
Stars: Isao Yamagata, Saburô Date, Ryûtarô Gomi, Yukio Horikita, Yûsaku Terashima
Zatwicki seeks to visit 81 temples to worship and seek forgiveness for his bloody past. In the middle of the way, he comes across a village where a yakuza boss has started a riot and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Daigo Kusano, Shintarô Katsu, Takeshi Ôbayashi
The story of the film goes back to the time when the Japanese government did not allow its people to do any business, but in the meantime, a person does an unusual business.
Stars: Isao Kimura, Saburô Date, Tokio Oki, Yûsaku Terashima, Jun Fujikawa
Satoko is a mistress by trade, or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temples lascivious head priest Kikuchi.
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Jun Ôtomo, Heihachirô Ôkawa, Chikako Hosokawa, Masao Mishima
Three sisters collect money for their mother by playing in the street and provide it to her...
Stars: Yoshio Kosugi, Haruo Tanaka, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kiyoko Tsuji, Masao Mishima
A few days in the life of a cold-blooded geisha, who is the mother of a smart boy in the lovely Ginza district of Tokyo. A woman who devotes herself to the needs of others.
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Hiroyuki Nagato, Kôji Mitsui, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Kusuo Abe
In the 17th century, a group of Hatamanos who served the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan caused countless destructions in the new capital of Odo (today's Tokyo). Their enemy was the "isolation" of the wood whose sole purpose was to protect Odo from the attacks of the Hatamotos.
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara, Keiji Sakakida, Heihachirô Ôkawa, Unpei Yokoyama
Mr. Tsurujiro is a Japanese folk singer who is supported by Ms. Tsuruhachi on shamisen, but after a show together, he feels that music is above marriage.
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Isao Sasaki, Isao Suenaga, Yoshihide Satô, Yôji Doki
A young student falls in love with his friend's father's secretary, this girl sees the good in the boy and tries to save him from his aimless life.
Stars: Gen Shimizu, Peter Williams, Sô Yamamura, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Seishirô Hara
Stars: Masao Mishima, Noboru Kiritachi, Yuriko Hanabusa, Akira Ubukata, Sadao Maruyama
Avalanche is about examining a year-long marriage whose foundations have weakened. A married man is stuck between loving his wife and being attracted to his wife's cousin
Stars: Saburô Date, Chikako Hosokawa, Yoshirô Kitahara, Masao Mishima, Ayako Wakao
The saga of "Ishikawa Goemon" continues, in this episode he seeks to assassinate "Toyotomi Hideyoshi"...
