Stars: Kôji Mitsui, Tamotsu Tamura, Sen Yano, Kyôko Kishida, Robert Dunham
Jumpy Niki is an entomologist and researcher from Tokyo who is busy collecting samples and insects in a poor seaside village. Due to the darkness and missing the last bus to the city, some villagers suggest him to spend the night there. He goes to the house of a young woman who is at the end of a sand pit. He finds out that the woman's wife and child were killed in a sandstorm and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Minoru Chiaki, Mikijirô Hira, Machiko Kyô, Yoshie Minami
A businessman who suffered burns on his face in a laboratory fire was treated by a psychiatrist and received an extraordinary mask from him. After a short time, he deceived his wife and succeeded. But his wife claims to have known about his true identity all this time and
Stars: Kikuo Kaneuchi, Kei Satô, Hisashi Igawa, Kunie Tanaka, Sen Yano
A miner and his young son enter a town in search of work. But the town seems deserted. After some bad luck, he joins a group of lost souls of the town...
Stars: Seiji Miyaguchi, Antoni Gaudí, Isidro Puig Boada
One of the best documentaries in the field of architecture is the work of director Hiroshi Tshikahara, Antoni Gaudi is one of the famous architects of the 19th and 20th centuries who designed some of the world's famous buildings and urban spaces...
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: Miki Irie, Teruko Hasegawa, Yoko Matsushita
Follows Ako, a 16 year old Japanese girl, as she spends time working in a bakery and going out with her friends.
Stars: Tomoko Naraoka, Sofu Teshigahara
It shows the old and traditional art of Japan and inside an art school in Japan...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Nagoya, Rie Miyazawa, Hisashi Igawa, Yûsuke Kawazu
Chronicles the trials and tribulations of Oribe, the successor to tea-master Rikyu, Usu, his gardener, and Princess Goh, who attempt to balance artistic expression and duty amid political intrigue in feudal Japan.
Stars: Yoshi Katô
A documentary about the life and art of wood-block artist Katsushika Hokusai.
Stars: Reiko Kasahara, Kyôichi Satô, Shintarô Katsu, Sakae Umezu, Hôsei Komatsu
A private detective is hired by a man's wife to find him. As the investigation proceeds unsuccessfully, the detective's personal life collides with the man he's looking for...
Stars: Donald Richie
A documentary based on headlines and newspapers that Tokyo, Japan in 1958-59 was one of the busiest and most prosperous cities in the world.
