Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kichijirô Ueda, Toshio Takahara, Nobuo Kaneko, Kazuo Kitamura
After the defeat of the Russian forces by the Japanese, Kaji leads the remaining Japanese soldiers through Manchuria. He who wants to return to his beloved wife and his past life, faces a difficult situation. He enters the enemy lines with his men and...
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: Tatsuya Nakadai, Susumu Fujita, Shôji Ôki, Minoru Chiaki, Shôbun Inoue
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army but is harassed by the veterans. During his service, he observed many brutalities in the army and protested against the mistreatment of new trainees...
Stars: Kei Satô
A brilliant documentary about the post-war trials in Tokyo between 1946 and 1948
Stars: Yôko Katsuragi, Eitarô Ozawa, Chieko Higashiyama, Masayuki Mori, Sadako Sawamura
An authoritarian and oppressive father destroyed his family's dreams and...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Haruko Sugimura, Ken Mitsuda, Kinuyo Tanaka, Hisako Yamane
The story of a poor samurai who cannot stay with his wife and leaves her hoping to find wealth. The first part
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Yûnosuke Itô, Kô Mishima
In a mountain village, Heeta is a gifted boy but the villagers shun him. He can imitate the cries of birds and befriend another boy who works in a brewery. Hita is comforted by the village priest, Yasugi, and her teacher, Mishiko. But they also have their own problems that...
