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: Kamatari Fujiwara, Yoshi Katô, Tokie Hidari, Kichiemon Nakamura, Shima Iwashita
A doomed love between a paper merchant and a prostitute...
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: Tomisaburô Wakayama, Yoshi Katô, Teruo Matsuyama, Kôji Sekiyama, Tamaki Katsura
A mountain man hunts a beautiful, but cunning urban woman, and does everything to satisfy her every kind of desire...
Stars: Yoshio Inaba, Mako, Yoshi Katô, Daigo Kusano, Teruo Matsuyama
Two priests face torture when they travel to 17th century Japan to spread Christianity and find their master...
Stars: Yoshi Katô, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Shima Iwashita, Jun Hamamura, Haruhiko Saitô
A free and imaginative account of the life of a shaman queen, Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, causing her powers to wane and her position to be in jeopardy...
Stars: Isao Kimura, Chieko Baishô, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Shin'ichirô Mikami, Tomoko Saitô
Two sisters have reached the age of marriage and now they are at a crossroads. Will they marry for money? Or love?
Stars: Takamaru Sasaki, Asao Koike, Tetsurô Tanba, Sô Yamamura, Hisao Toake
A bankrupt Yokohama port worker discovers that the rules that have built his life have no solid foundation. Believing this, and to save his life, he falls victim to a manipulative cycle of deception and revenge.
Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Naoto Takenaka, Furankî Sakai, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Shima Iwashita
A lazy but capable kabuki (traditional Japanese theater) actor is fired from his job by the order of the new head of the cast. A man who is very sad and disillusioned by this matter, after some time he meets a mysterious producer who helps him in this chaotic situation, motivates him and supports him to return to the theater stage, despite his refusal to achieve what he wants, i.e. popularity, honor and fame, he does whatever his producer says and gradually finds himself drowning in the abyss of corruption. The film puts the relationship between the producer and the actor under the microscope. , an actress who doesn't accept at first, but becomes a mysterious man's toy doll to get money and fame.
Stars: Fumio Tooyama, Tomoko Saitô, Yôji Doki, Keiji Tsuchida, Shôsuke Oni
The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer.
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Sô Yamamura, Shima Iwashita, Takanobu Hozumi, Yûsuke Kawazu
Stars: Mako, Gaku Yamamoto, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Shôhei Hino, Shima Iwashita
When a high-ranking military commander named Nobunaga Oda consolidated his power in Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a generation of assassins from the face of the earth. He massacred all the men, women and children of a village. Years later, one of the survivors hires a young but seasoned assassin to avenge the deaths of his friends and family. His mission is to break into a very strong and guarded castle in Japan and kill the supreme ruler of that country.
Stars: Koyuki, Iain Glen, Max Hopp, Kippei Shîna, Shima Iwashita
A foreign spy with the nickname "Sun" is assigned to go to Tokyo before the start of World War II and at the height of Japan's imperialist ambitions in East Asia. He then meets a sympathetic communist who has similar beliefs such as freedom and Tudeh party rules. Suraj succeeds in bringing valuable information about the Axis forces (Nazi Germany, Italy, Japan and other allied countries) and their movement in Asia to the Soviet Republic.
