Stars: You, Haruko Katô, Susumu Terajima, Hiroshi Abe, Kirin Kiki
The drama film is about children who visit their old parents on a summer day. Their parents have been living in their family home for decades. Their son and daughter bring their families with them to visit them...
Stars: Isao Kimura, Kaoru Yachigusa, Kan Mikami, Izumi Hara, Chigusa Takayama
The story of a young boy in a strange village becomes a memory that the director of the film will make twenty years from now...
Stars: Isao Hashizume, Masami Nagasawa, Hiroshi Abe, Yuri Nakamura, Ôshirô Maeda
The movie is about 12-year-old Koichi, who is separated from his brother Ryonsuke because of his parents' separation.
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...
Stars: Yû Fujiki, Jun Kunimura, Kazuki Kitamura, Akaji Maro, Bari Suzuki
9 convicts escape from prison. They steal a van and go to the stash of money that their cellmate promised them, to divide the money between them and then part ways...
Stars: Chisako Hara, Jun Hamamura, Hajime Hana, Sue Mitobe, Keiko Takeshita
A young Japanese man comes to the realization that he must leave his village if he is to ever have a chance at a full life.
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: Hiroyuki Nagato, Kaori Momoi, Daigo Kusano, Taiji Tonoyama, Moeko Ezawa
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film describes the daily life of people one day before that fateful event, their feelings of happiness and sadness. For them, tomorrow never comes...
Stars: Arata Iura, Kaoru Okunuki, Nao Okabe, Shinji Miyadai, Gô Jibiki
A story about the rise and fall of the United Red Army, a real-life x26#39;70 short-lived Japanese revolutionary communist movement armed with the more famous Red Battalion in Italy or...
Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Seizô Fukumoto, Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Ichirô Nakatani
Following the death of the Tokugawa Shogun, it was revealed that he had been poisoned by his son's guards in hopes of getting him despite his stuttering and birthmark that undermined his respectability. Imitsu and...
Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Rie Miyazawa, Yoshio Harada
Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, this film focuses on the suffering of Hiroshima survivors.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Isao Natsuyagi, Shin'ichi Chiba, Yoshi Katô, Kyôichi Satô
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his bosss enemies almost overwhelming.
Stars: Akaji Maro, Isao Tamagawa, Kirin Kiki, Hatsuo Yamaya, Naoko Ôtani
Avchi, a German professor who is on vacation in a coastal village, meets his former colleague Nakazaku, who is wanted by the mafia. The police intervene, but Avchi prevents his friend from being arrested and...
Stars: Akaji Maro, Kimiko Yo, Tomoko Mariya, Yoshio Harada, Michiyo Yasuda
The story of a painter and poet named Yumji Takehisa, who falls in love with a widow whose spirit is haunted by her murdered husband.
Stars: Akaji Maro, Mariko Kaga, Isao Tamagawa, Bsaku Satô, Asao Sano
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patrons deceased wife.
Stars: Isao Natsuyagi, Renji Ishibashi, Tamotsu Tamura, Hajime Araki, Kôji Tsutsui
Mikugami's Jokichi has yet to fully avenge the death of his wife and son. He is looking for Kunisada Chuji...
Stars: Shinji Suzuki, Terrence Stone, Naoto Takenaka, Yasuomi Sano, Kazuki Kitamura
Growing up to become a ruthless assassin, a teenage girl named Azumi must defeat an evil warlord and fight her heart...
Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Daisuke Iijima, Hideo Murota, Kei Satô, Junko Miyashita
After the Yankees left Okinawa and ended their mischief, thugs took their place in the city. A doctor enters Okinawa to help his friend. Where thugs...
Stars: Shôbun Inoue, Asao Uchida, Yoshi Katô, Tôru Abe, Atsuo Nakamura
Thirsty for revenge, Jukichi attempts to assassinate Chuguro but ends up being captured by the yakuza...
Stars: Kaori Momoi, Renji Ishibashi, Keisuke Noro, Hatsuo Yamaya, Yoshio Harada
The last three days of the life of Ryoma Sakamoto, an imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans to overthrow the Shogunate...
