Cast: Asao Sano

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Fumio Watanabe · Ineko Arima · Tatsuya Nakadai · Asao Sano

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Seizo Fukumoto · Reiko Ike · Nobuo Kaneko

Plot It is 1963, and the police of Kurashima City have spent the past seven years eradicating the Yakuza gangs which have caused so much strife in the city. The last...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Toru Abe · Shinsuke Ashida · Seizaburô Kawazu · Mie Kitahara

Plot A talented young artist painted a picture of Wakako Kyogoku when she was a little girl. The piece was entitled “Girl” and Wakako held it dear to her heart. Years...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Michiyo Oguso · Mariko Kaga · Katsuo Nakamura

Plot The fever-dream follow-up to his acclaimed "Zigeunerweisen", the enigmatically erotic "Kagero-Za" is the second film in Seijun Suzuki's Taishô Trilogy -- this time set in the disjointed cityscapes and surrounding...

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Masako Izumi · Yukiko Todoroki · Asao Koike

Direction Tooru Dobashi

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Hiroshi Katsuno · Kazue Ito · Hikaru Kurosaki

Plot Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in Africa where the family had been living throughout most of Jo's life. Once...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Yûko Mochizuki · Rentarô Mikuni · Sachiko Hidari · Yoshio Inaba

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Reiko Sasamori · Eiji Gô · Shinsuke Ashida

Direction Ren Yoshimura

Cast Takahisa Aida · Kyosuke Aihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Yuko Chishiro

Plot Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Yôko Yamamoto · Kotoe Hatsui · Kenjiro Ishiyama

Plot Action film about young outlaws around the year 1910.

Direction Mio Ezaki

Cast Eiji Gô · Akira Kobayashi · Yûji Odaka · Chieko Matsubara

Plot A mysterious man who calls himself Macau Dragon disembarks in the port of Yokohama ready to buy a huge diamond that has been stolen by Aizu, the leader of a...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Mizuho Suzuki · Hiroko Kino · Mugihito · Sen Hara

Plot A Japanese soldier has an affair with a Korean girl at the beginning of World war II. The union produces a child and the backlash of social intolerance of people...

Direction Takumi Furukawa

Cast Yôko Minamida · Hiroyuki Nagato · Yujiro Ishihara · Ko Mishima

Plot The generation-defining masterpiece penned by Akutagawa Prize-winning author Shintaro Ishihara proved to be Nikkatsu’s first crossover hit. This Sun Tribe film details the frequently scandalous whims of two listless postwar...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Takashi Kanda · Yoshi Kato · Isao Kimura · Koichi Nishimura

Plot Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn about Kitani's past and reasons...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Izumi Ashikawa · Asao Koike

Plot In the high-octane, unorthodox romance I Hate But Love (Nikui anchikusho), a celebrity (played by megastar Yujiro Ishihara), dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Tamio Kawaji · Midori Tashiro · Keiko Sugiyama · Kayo Matsuo

Plot A by-the-book youth oriented yakuza pic. A high school student who gets involved in a scuffle at a neighborhood shopping mall. When the smoke clears, the police discover he has...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Ken Ogata · Masaomi Kondo · Teruhiko Saigô

Plot Toranosuke Sugi, a brave and loyal Samurai, fights to practice and preserve his master's teachings amid a civil war. With friends on both side will he cave to temptation, or...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Ken Yamauchi · Masako Izumi · Midori Tashiro · Chiharu Kuri

Plot Suzuki finds Takeo Kimura - a like-minded collaborator who will help him refine his style and a partner who will give him the strength to challenge the corporate bosses who...

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Tamio Kawaji · Haruko Sugimura · Eitarô Ozawa · Arihiro Fujimura

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Kiwako Taichi · Jûkichi Uno

Plot During his travels, Tora-san meets Ikenouchi, a drunken old man whom he assumes is poor and homeless. Tora-san takes the old man home. When he wakes up, Ikenouchi begins ordering...