Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura
The production line manager of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his driver's son is kidnapped, leaving him at a moral dilemma.
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Atsushi Watanabe
Japan, early 19th century. "Doctor Naidi" (Mifone), known as "Red Beard", is the doctor in charge of a poor general clinic. "Dr. Noburo Yasumoto" (Kayama), a new assistant doctor, despite his initial disobedience to "Red Beard", including his excessive drinking and unusual clothing, finally learns that a good doctor must make sacrifices.
Stars: Tôru Minegishi, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tarô Ishida, Ryôko Hirosue, Tetta Sugimoto
An unemployed cellist gets a job preparing the dead for a funeral...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Senkichi Ômura, Kaori Momoi
A pardoned thief who bears a strong resemblance to a samurai who is a warlord and is hired as his replacement. After the commander dies, he is forced to take over the army...
Stars: Ken Watanabe, Hitoshi Takagi, Nobuo Nakamura, Isao Hashizume, Yoshi Katô
A truck driver stops at a diner run by a family in Twit and decides to help their new business. The story is interwoven with various images about love and food...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katô, Kamatari Fujiwara, Sachio Sakai, Gen Shimizu
Nobuko is a noble woman who suffers many tragedies throughout her life. She gets a son after her marriage, but her husband is killed in the war...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Takamaru Sasaki, Bokuzen Hidari
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of Judo. With his wisdom, the instructor teaches Sanshiro that judo is not an art of fighting or killing, but an art that recognizes the artist...
Stars: Shinji Nomura, Isao Hashizume, Mahito Tsujimura, Nobuko Miyamoto, Hideo Murota
If tax evasion is an art, the businessman (Willer Hideki Gondo) is as skilled a painter as Rembrandt. Therefore, a determined female tax collector will have to go to great lengths to collect tax from her.
Stars: Yôichi Okamura, Issei Takahashi, Yoshimasa Kondô, Masami Nagasawa, Takao Osawa
In 1980, two teenagers fall in love with each other and share their secrets by sending tapes to each other. After a decade, the boy finds the last tape of his dead love. Her voice starts a series of flashbacks to the past in his mind and...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Kaoru Kobayashi, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kin Sugai
At the beginning of the film the father-in-law of the protagonist dies unexpectedly of a heart attack. The remainder of the film is episodic, moving from one incident to another over the ...
Stars: Hideyo Amamoto, Seiji Miyaguchi, Renji Ishibashi, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Mayumi Ogawa
A surreal and isolated village, its residents decide to leave their traditions and superstitions behind and move to the city. Among them are two nephews who are in love with each other and get into trouble with other villagers who...
Stars: Akira Kubo, Donald Richie, Tanie Kitabayashi, Kichiemon Nakamura, Hisashi Igawa
In the late 1500s, a tea master shows the ways of knowing tea to a stubborn shogun. Using strong motivation and great courage, Hideyoshi becomes the most powerful general in Japan. Rikyu helps him by using tea ceremonies and aromatic substances and...
Stars: Yoshiyuki Morishita, Kengo Kôra, Shun Oguri, Masatô Ibu, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Newbie director Koichi and his team go to a mountain village to shoot a film that...
Stars: Tae Kimura, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Mieko Harada, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Sawa Suzuki
Akneri Komura and his wife decide to plant an apple orchard in their hometown, but due to Mayako, Komura's wife's allergy to chemicals, they cannot use any poison, which causes them to go bankrupt, and Komura decides to commit suicide, and suddenly a miracle happens.
Stars: Nanako Matsushima, Hiroshi Abe, Ran Itô, Fumiyo Kohinata, Midoriko Kimura
Michiko goes to Toronto to meet Hiromi, but a murder happens that disrupts everything...
Stars: Gô Katô, Tôru Abe, Ryûnosuke Kaneda, Jun Hamamura, Yatsuko Tan'ami
Outside a sparsely populated village in Japan, there is a mysterious lagoon that is home to mythical monsters. Their story is about revenge, tragedy and the power of true love. A classic story that is very delicately included in the film.
Stars: Akaji Maro, Yô Ôizumi, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Hikari Mitsushima, Midoriko Kimura
The story of this movie is about Japanese women who seek refuge in other cities to escape the war and wait for their husbands...
Stars: Min Tanaka, Chiaki Kuriyama, Kazuki Kitamura, Takuya Kimura, Sôta Fukushi
Based on the comics series "Hiroaki Samurai", this film is the story of a samurai who is cursed with immortal life, and is invited by a girl to take revenge on her father's murderer.
Stars: Kazushige Komatsu, Akaji Maro, Kikuo Kaneuchi, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Tôru Nomaguchi
The war ended on August 15, 1945, but the new thing that happened in Japan was the emergence of a new royal family that...
Stars: Yûko Takeuchi, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yûdai Chiba, Maika Yamamoto, Eita Nagayama
It is the 18th century and 9 residents of a poor town in Japan, who have a meager life, decide to find a plan to improve poverty and live a good life...
