Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kichijirô Ueda, Toshio Takahara, Nobuo Kaneko, Kazuo Kitamura
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, 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: Tatsuya Nakadai, Susumu Fujita, Shôji Ôki, Minoru Chiaki, Shôbun Inoue
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army but is harassed by the veterans. During his service, he observed many brutalities in the army and protested against the mistreatment of new trainees...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ichirô Nakatani, Hideyo Amamoto
Rinosuke is a samurai without pity or moral qualities. When he is selected to participate in his school's fencing competition, his rival's wife begs him to give up the fight and offers himself to her in return. He accepts the woman's offer, but kills her husband in the fight and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Ichirô Nakatani, Akira Tani, Noriko Sengoku
A collection of four old Japanese tales, with a supernatural profile.
Stars: Yôko Tsukasa, Daisuke Katô, Chieko Naniwa, Yû Fujiki, Akira Takarada
The family of an elderly man who owns a small sake brewery is worried about his financial situation and health after they discover that he has been meeting an elderly lover from his teenage years...
Stars: Yôko Tsukasa, Daisuke Katô, Seizaburô Kawazu, Takashi Shimura, Hiroshi Tachikawa
After the master of the forty-seven samurai is tricked into committing suicide, they decide to avenge their master's death and reclaim his honor...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Yasuzô Ogawa, Michiko Kawa, Yû Fujiki, Yoshio Inaba
Tashiro happens to see his best friend Sugimoto in a bar near the apartment where his friend's wife's body was found. Although Tashiro is not suspected by the police, he confesses his guilt to his wife and...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Ikio Sawamura, Susumu Fujita, Hideyo Amamoto
This movie is the story of a group of samurai who plan to attack the prime minister but find out there is an informer among them. Some of the samurai are assigned to investigate about the people in the group, and in this way, the complicated story of Naliro's life is gradually revealed. Naliru is a poor samurai who didn't have a job before joining the group and hopes to rise to higher ranks by completing his samurai mission.
Stars: Yôko Tsukasa, Daisuke Katô, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Yutaka Sada, Noriko Honma
A widow runs a farm with her young son and her mother-in-law. When the reporter comes to interview him, a relationship is unintentionally formed between them that...
Stars: Kiyoshi Kamoda, Tanie Kitabayashi, Masayuki Mori, Tatsuya Mihashi, Michiyo Aratama
At the end of high school, a student meets an older man and he...
Stars: Seizaburô Kawazu, Kenjirô Uemura, Reiko Kuba, Tatsuya Mihashi, Michiyo Aratama
One couple in particular stands on a bridge in Asakusa. Tsutae and Yoshiji have lost their confidence and passion for their future...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Saburô Date, Yûsaku Terashima, Yûji Hamada, Jun Fujikawa
Goichi Mizoguchi was tormented by his mother when he was young, but he was comforted by his father's stories about the golden mansion. Later, the shy Goichi becomes a monk and meets Tokari and...
Stars: Akira Tani, Noriko Honma, Chieko Nakakita, Masao Shimizu, Tatsuya Ishiguro
Mihoku and Toichi Nachagawa's marriage bond is about to be destroyed. Each knows that the other is not happy, but they do not talk about their problems, each in their own problems...
Stars: Hiroshi Tachikawa, Ikio Sawamura, Hideyo Amamoto, Naoya Kusakawa, Yasuzô Ogawa
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman aims to depict the daily life of an ordinary salaried man. This man decides to follow his own way of life and use it to write a novel. Interesting things happen to him until...
Stars: Kiyoshi Kamoda, Sanpei Mine, Tôru Abe, Shirô Ôsaka, Kunitarô Sawamura
Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally kills his crazy wife after his affair with his secretary, Harumi, is revealed. In an attempt to complete his crime, he goes to a remote mine to bury his wife's body, but along the way, he finds another dead body in the trunk of his car! He is forced to make both bodies disappear.
Stars: Toshio Takahara, Nobuo Kaneko, Eitarô Ozawa, Sô Yamamura, Tatsuya Mihashi
Narration of Sonjiro, who sacrifices all his comfort to devote himself to research. A young housewife named Yachio is disappointed by her husband Capi, who is more interested in mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachio's father is introduced to Sonjiro,...
