Cast: Kinzo Shin

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Ineko Arima · Kamatari Fujiwara · Setsuko Hara · Nobuo Nakamura

Synopsis Two sisters live with their father. The younger sister is embroiled in an affair and becomes pregnant. The elder sister has run away from her husband and returned with her child to her parent's home. Both sisters are astonished when...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Jô Shishido · Ichiro Kijima · Misako Watanabe · Akiji Kobayashi

Synopsis When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence. Youth of the Beast (Yaju no Seishun) was a breakthrough for director Seijun Suzuki, introducing the flamboyant colors, hallucinatory images, and striking compositions that would...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Hitomi Nozoe · Yûnosuke Itô · Michiko Ono

Synopsis Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies. His boss builds up Kyoko, a vivacious girl with bad teeth, as their mascot. Kyoko is...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Tatsuya Nakadai · Ganjiro Nakamura · Yoichi Funaki

Synopsis Told in an intricate flashback structure, Enjo dramatizes the psychological collapse of Goichi (Raizo Ichikawa), a young Buddhist acolyte from a dysfunctional family who arrives at a Kyoto temple - the Golden Pavillion - for further study. Goichi is haunted...

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Etsuko Ichihara · Osamu Okawa · Kiyoshi Atsumi

Synopsis A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Akira Nitta · Shima Iwashita · Hosei Komatsu · Rentarô Mikuni

Synopsis A young man returns to the island where he was held prisoner as a child. He was sent to the island as a boy so he could not reveal the identities of the military police who killed his family. For...

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Natsuko Kahara · Shintarô Katsu · Fujiko Yamamoto

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Takahiro Tamura · Tetsurô Tanba · Yoshi Kato

Synopsis Shinpachi, a poor samurai with no prospects, gets in an argument with Magodayu, a high-ranking officer, resulting in an illegal duel and Magodayu's death. To save face for both familes, both participants are declared insane, and Shinpachi is exiled to...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Sanae Takasugi · Taiji Tonoyama · Jun Hamamura

Direction Hideo Sekigawa

Cast Hajime Izu · Yasumi Hara · Akitake Kôno · Kinzo Shin

Synopsis This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The film is located to Burma. It shows the everyday problems of soldiers in contrast...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Michiko Araki · Jun Hamamura · Daigo Kusano

Direction Minoru Shibuya

Cast Chishu Ryu · Nobuko Otowa · Mariko Kaga · Isao Yamagata

Synopsis One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Isao Kimura · Yoshiko Kuga · Isuzu Yamada · Yûnosuke Itô

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Sumiko Hidaka · Sanae Nakahara · Hatae Kishi

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Go Kato · Komaki Kurihara · Yasushi Nagata · Kinzo Shin

Synopsis A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and the inhospitable snowscapes of the north.

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Koreya Senda · Masao Mishima · Ranko Akagi · Yutaka Izumihara

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Kyôko Kagawa · Susumu Fujita · Keiko Tsushima · Eiji Okada

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Takao Ito · Takeshi Katô · Tamio Kawaji

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Shima Iwashita · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Kei Sato · Mayumi Ogawa

Synopsis A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her into sleeping with an older man for money.

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yujiro Ishihara · Osamu Takizawa · Takashi Shimura

Synopsis Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only...