Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Atsushi Watanabe
The living conditions of Japanese people are bad. Even the samurai are unemployed. In the meantime, a village is attacked by bandits, and seven unemployed samurais get help for defense.
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: Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Atsushi Watanabe, Sachio Sakai
After learning that he has incurable cancer, an office manager tries to search for the meaning of life after thirty years.
Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Masashi Ebara, Damien Thomas, Toshirô Mifune, Yôsuke Natsuki
An English navigator becomes a player and at the same time a plaything of the political games of feudal "Japan"...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Ikio Sawamura
An experienced war general, prevented from attaining the throne by his position-seeking wife, strives to fulfill the mission that will make him Lord of the Spider's Web Palace.
Stars: Kokuten Kôdô, Seiji Miyaguchi, Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara
A family chooses a marriage for their daughter Noriko, but surprisingly, she has plans of her own...
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: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Susumu Fujita
A young man marries the daughter of a corrupt factory owner to bring justice to his father's suicide.
Stars: Seiji Miyaguchi, Yûnosuke Itô, Ken Mitsuda, Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi
The film tells the story of a remote village where the lack of food has led to the passing of a law according to which people over the age of seventy must be taken by their relatives to the top of Narayama Mountain to die a natural death. Orin's grandmother, who has reached the age of seventy, is ready to face her fate and...
Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Masashi Ebara, Damien Thomas, Toshirô Mifune, Yôsuke Natsuki
An English sailor is taken hostage in Japan and meanwhile enters the deadly political games of feudal Japan...
Stars: Seiji Miyaguchi, Fumio Tooyama, Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki
A gangster is released from prison and must deal with the recent shift in power between different gangs, while caring for a thrill-seeking young woman who has been hanging out with the bad guys while gambling...
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: Seiji Miyaguchi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Yoshi Katô, Yoshie Kitsuda, Taiji Tonoyama
Sadako grew up as a servant in her husband's family, who treats her like a slave. She is raped while her husband is in another place. A strange relationship is formed between the rapist who pursues the terrified woman and Sadako, whose intention to kill her leads to a strange end and...
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katô, Yutaka Sada, Senkichi Ômura, Kichijirô Ueda
Tsuta manages Tsuta House in Tokyo; But his business is badly damaged and under debt, and his sister...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Ikio Sawamura, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Senkichi Ômura, Takuzô Kumagai
A poor carriage driver takes care of a young woman and her son after the sudden death of her husband and...
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: Ichirô Nakatani, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Mayumi Ogawa, Haruko Sugimura
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Akira Tani, Yutaka Sada
A woman gets married, gives birth to a dead child, gets divorced and falls in love with a hotel owner, but considers herself dependent on her success, so she works with a tailor to...
Stars: Yoshio Inaba, Isao Kimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshi Katô, Sakae Umezu
The film is the story of two young people named "Mitsuko" and "Kando" who commit violence against society in various ways and try to stay together despite many problems...
