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: Nobuo Nakamura, Tôru Abe, Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara
An old couple visits their children and grandchildren in the city, and are ignored...
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara, Eiko Miyoshi, Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura
Two sisters search for their missing mother, but the younger sister cannot come to terms with the fact that she was abandoned by her mother as a child...
Stars: Nobuo Kaneko, Chieko Nakakita, Setsuko Hara, Sô Yamamura, Hisao Toake
A businessman named Ogata works with his son Shoichi and lives peacefully with his wives Yasuko and Kikoko. Shuichi has a secret relationship with another woman and there is no love in their life together. Yasuko has devoted her whole life to her family, but Ogata only got married because of her younger sister's death and...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura, Chieko Nakakita, Junji Masuda
A young man and his wife struggle with their loveless marriage as the man has a secret love affair...
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: Yukiko Shimazaki, Sayuri Tanima, Chieko Nakakita, Ichirô Shimizu, Setsuko Hara
Michiko moved to Osaka with her husband two years ago. She cooks, washes and cleans the house all day. All her wishes and dreams have disappeared five years ago and after her marriage and...
Stars: Takashi Noguchi, Asao Koike, Takeshi Ôbayashi, Robert Hossein, Sô Yamamura
Two Japanese scientists develop a close relationship with their sled dogs during a scientific trip to Antarctica. After leaving the pole, they return to find their dogs and...
Stars: Paul Frees, Susumu Fujita, Richard Erdman, Jason Robards, Walter Brooke
This movie is about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the mistakes of the Americans that caused this to happen...
Stars: Asao Koike, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Asao Uchida, Akihiro Tomikawa, Hiroshi Hasegawa
Ogami is hired to take down a female assassin. Gunbi Yagyu, a rival samurai, encounters Ogami's son and sees the opportunity for revenge...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Mikijirô Hira, Noriko Sengoku
On his deathbed, wealthy businessman Beck announces that all his wealth will be divided between his three illegitimate children, whose existence is hidden from his family and colleagues. A group of his colleagues and lawyers are trying to get his money and...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Noriko Sengoku, Chishû Ryû, Sô Yamamura, Hideko Takamine
Setsuko is not happy living with Mimura, an unemployed engineer who is always drinking. She used to be in love with Hiroshi, but after Hiroshi's migration to France, their love was forgotten. Now he is back and...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Minoru Chiaki, Yû Fujiki
Kiko, the daughter of a successful novelist, marries a writer. However, her husband's problems with his writing and his dissatisfaction with her father create problems for them.
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Susumu Fujita, Sachio Sakai, Yoshio Tsuchiya
In 1943, the Kiska Aleutian Islands were protected by a small group of independent Japanese soldiers.
Stars: Asao Koike, Hiroyuki Nagato, Akira Nagoya, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Taiji Tonoyama
A student named "Shasuke" enters Akitsu just before the start of World War II. He is saved by a teenager named "Shinko" who works in a hot spring. They fall in love and commit suicide after learning that Japan has lost the war...
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: Shirô Tsuchiya, Noriko Sengoku, Sô Yamamura, Masayuki Mori, Taizô Fukami
The wife of a notorious party man falls in love with her cousin and creates many problems for herself...
Stars: Isao Yamagata, Manabu Morita, Eitarô Ozawa, Haruko Sugimura, Sô Yamamura
Eighteenth century China. The emperor mourns his wife. The Ying family wants to introduce a wife to the emperor in order to increase their influence on the court. General Anne Lushan prepares a distant relative who works in the kitchen to be introduced to the emperor. The emperor falls in love with her and...
Stars: Sô Yamamura, Haruo Tanaka, Kumeko Urabe, Yuriko Hamada, Eijirô Yanagi
The film tells the story of a married and unhappy woman who has a strong interest in physical love and does not believe in spiritual love.
Stars: Tomisaburô Wakayama, Saburô Date, Tokio Oki, Tadashi Iwata, Yûji Hamada
The story is about a ninja named Goemon who, after leaving his ninja group, tries to kill an army commander named Oda Nobunaga.
