Stars: Shôji Ôki, Rokkô Toura, Taiji Tonoyama, Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa
A woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during the civil war. After some time, several samurai returning from the war are mysteriously killed in the area. The governor summons a brave hero to destroy what is clearly a ghost...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Susumu Fujita, Takeshi Katô
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: Rokkô Toura, Taiji Tonoyama, Masaru Baba, Nobuko Otowa, Keiju Kobayashi
Harrow, a veteran writer, hides in the woods to work on his first novel...
Stars: Tomisaburô Wakayama, Yoshi Katô, Akihiro Tomikawa, Kyôichi Satô, Kôji Fujiyama
When the lord of a powerful clan cares more about his daughter than his son, the whole family is in danger. Ogami Ito, a former executioner of the Shogun, is hired to prevent this big event. But first he must prove his abilities by killing five of the best assassins of the tribe...
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Toshirô Ishidô, Nagisa Ôshima, Rokkô Toura, Masao Adachi
A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but survives. In two hours, his executioners try to take control of the situation in this black comedy film...
Stars: Gaku Yamamoto, Saburô Date, Kanae Kobayashi, Shintarô Katsu, Ryô Horikawa
A samurai with high chess skills befriends Zatoichi, and Zatoichi realizes that in his presence, everything has become strange in a special way...
Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Fumio Watanabe, Rokkô Toura, Mariko Kaga, Hiroshi Mizushima
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this film depicts in a series of encounters and lifes turning points.
Stars: Hisao Takeda, Alistair Browning, Jack Thompson, Tom Conti, Geoff Clendon
During World War II, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural gap between British POWs and Japanese POW camp commanders to prevent bloodshed...
Stars: Saburô Date, Ryûtarô Gomi, Yukio Horikita, Shintarô Katsu, Rokkô Toura
Zatwicki is tricked by a criminal group to kill a man. When he realizes his mistake, he tries to take care of the deceased's sister to compensate, but...
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Rokkô Toura, Taiji Tonoyama, Eitarô Ozawa, Chisako Hara
After receiving a shocking telegram from his cousin, a man reminisces about his early life as part of a large family with dark secrets that slowly reveal themselves in circles...
Stars: Yoshio Inaba, Mako, Yoshi Katô, Daigo Kusano, Teruo Matsuyama
Two priests face torture when they travel to 17th century Japan to spread Christianity and find their master...
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Reiko Kasahara, Kyôichi Satô, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Shinzô Hotta
"Matsu", known as "Scorpion" among the inmates, is locked up in the worst part of the prison on the charge of attacking the warden and disturbing the public order. Having only one day to visit someone, he attacks the prison chief again. This causes more brutal punishments and...
Stars: Seiji Miyaguchi, Tetsurô Tanba, Rokkô Toura, Eitarô Ozawa, Shin'ya Mizushima
The legendary samurai, Sasuke Sarutobi, is caught in a web of political intrigue, deception and espionage in the early 17th century...
Stars: Asao Uchida, Saburô Date, Ryûtarô Gomi, Yûji Hamada, Jun Fujikawa
Hanpeh is a young and orphaned boy who is mistreated by the other subjects of the master. He loves growing flowers and is called the gardener of the castle. One day Hanpe meets a samurai in the forest who teaches him his techniques.
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Rokkô Toura, Taiji Tonoyama, Hôsei Komatsu, Kei Satô
The film is the story of the life of a violent rapist through the memories of his wife and one of his victims...
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Daigo Kusano, Rokkô Toura, Akira Hamada, Mariko Kaga
After Atsushi commits a murder, he is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase full of embezzled money. What happens next is the transformation of correct actions into capricious and foolish actions that bring regret...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Tsunagorô Rashômon, Gen Shimizu, Asao Koike, Bokuzen Hidari
In the slums of Osaka, young people steal, beat, buy and sell their identity cards and blood to make ends meet. Tatsu and Takeshi, who are childhood friends, join Shin's group and...
Stars: Rokkô Toura, Taiji Tonoyama, Moeko Ezawa, Hôsei Komatsu, Kumeko Urabe
For 50 years, the blind musician has been traveling all over Japan and becoming famous...
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Daigo Kusano, Daijirô Harada, Rokkô Toura, Taiji Tonoyama
After leaving high school, Michio Yamada (Norio Nagayama in the real life incidents) becomes involved in the shudan shushoku, a post-war Japanese government work program which involves taking almost an entire high school graduating class from the countryside to Tokyo to work for a fruit company. Some terrible things happened to his family in the past and that explains... Read allDirectorKaneto Shindô
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Rokkô Toura, Kei Satô, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Akiko Koyama
Uninvited guests disrupt the wedding ceremony of a radical student and accuse him, his wife and other guests of ignoring their political obligations...
