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: Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Shinji Tanaka, Masanori Horimoto
The movie depicts the hard life of a family of four who are the only inhabitants of an island in Japan. They go to the neighboring island several times a day to get water for their fields...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoshi Katô, Kaoru Yachigusa, Toshirô Yanagiba, Mako Ishino
The film tells the true story of a dog's loyalty to his owner even after his death...
Stars: Taiji Tonoyama, Mariko Kaga, Takahiro Tamura, Nobutaka Asahara, Makiko Shibata
Two boys, whose parents work on a river in Osaka, become close friends. When one of the boys loses his wallet at the Tenjin festival, the other boy invites him to his house and...
Stars: Ken Ogata, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Taiji Tonoyama, Ben Hiura, Aki Takejô
A remote village on a hill below Narayama mountain. Late winter, 19th century. The people of the village are suffering from famine, and according to tradition, the eldest son of the family must lead his parents to the top of Narayama mountain at the age of seventy to die of hunger there. But Orin (Sakamoto) is still in good health at the age of sixty-nine.
Stars: Eiko Miyoshi, Taiji Tonoyama, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Miyake
Two boys observe fasting to persuade their parents to buy a television set...
Stars: Hiroshi Tanaka, Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô, Jûkichi Uno
In the middle ages, a man named Kaichi is forced to leave his wife and mother to join the Japanese civil war. Now the mother, who lives alone with her daughter-in-law, kills a samurai to sell her valuables, this process continues until the daughter-in-law falls in love with one of their victims...
Stars: Takashi Miike, Yoshiko Tanaka, Taiji Tonoyama, Kazuko Shirakawa, Kazuo Kitamura
Mr. and Mrs. Shizuma and their nephew Yasuko make their way through the ruins of Hiroshima right after the atomic bomb. Five years later, Yasuko lives with her uncle, aunt, and grandmother in a village where most of the survivors of the bombing are located. She does not seem to be affected by the bomb, but Shizuma is worried about her future and...
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: Taiji Tonoyama, Takahiro Tamura, Yûzô Hayakawa, Mikio Narita, Ayako Wakao
On the eve of the start of the war between Russia and Japan at the beginning of the 20th century, Okane, a young girl from a small town, marries the elderly and wealthy Mary to escape poverty...
Stars: Taiji Tonoyama, Eitarô Ozawa, Chishû Ryû, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Eiko Takamatsu
In post-war Japan, a man takes a lost boy with him to the city. No one wants to take him into their home even for one night until a wicked widow accepts this responsibility 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: Hisako Ôkata, Yoshi Katô, Toshirô Ishidô, Toshie Negishi, Furankî Sakai
Iwa Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has a strange and inexplicable penchant for committing crazy and brutal murders. He ends up being chased by the police all over Japan but always somehow manages to escape. He meets a woman and falls in love with her.
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: Jun Tatara, Yûsaku Terashima, Taiji Tonoyama, Gorô Tarumi, Masao Shimizu
Postwar Hiroshima: It's been four years since he visited his hometown. When Takako travels around the city to visit an old friend, he encounters the effects of the big bomb and...
Stars: Takashi Shimura, Sachio Sakai, Akira Tani, Noriko Sengoku, Haruko Toyama
After a battle with rival gangsters, a petty gangster is treated by an alcoholic doctor. The doctor diagnosed the man with tuberculosis and convinced him to treat him. The two enjoy their friendship until the man's ex-boss is released from prison...
Stars: Yoshi Katô, Taiji Tonoyama, Kazuo Kitamura, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Hôsei Komatsu
An engineer from Tokyo enters a tropical island to help a nearby sugar factory by digging a well. He met the Futuri family, who are hated by the people for breaking the old traditions, and...
Stars: Yoshi Katô, Akitake Kôno, Taiji Tonoyama, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Yumiko Hasegawa
The meeting of two traveling gamblers causes a mistake in their identity, which has fatal consequences.
Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Toshio Takahara, Tetsurô Tanba, Taiji Tonoyama, Kin Sugai
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: Mansaku Fuwa, Yoshi Katô, Teruo Matsuyama, Saburô Date, Kaoru Kobayashi
A traveling blind musician is abused while touring the country, even as the modern world claims that people's behavior has changed...
