Cast: Leonard Kuma

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Norihei Miki · Ken Ogata · Leonard Kuma · Mitsuko Baisho

Direction Yōjirō Takita

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Hiroko Yakushimaru · Yasuo Daichi · Tsuyoshi Ihara

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Yuki Saito · Takaaki Enoki · Mai Okamoto · Leonard Kuma

Synopsis This dazzling portrait of an orphaned girl at several stages of her life, from childhood to adulthood, opens with one of the most famous long takes in Japanese cinema, a single shot spanning months of time and disparate locations.

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Yoshie Ichige · Pinko Izumi · Shingo Tsurumi

Synopsis Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One New Year's day, a haggard-looking mother and her two adorable moppets...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Keiji Mutô · Michiru Akiyoshi · Narumi Yasuda · Hide Demon

Synopsis A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera singer.

Direction Tomio Kuriyama

Cast Mihoko Fujita · Michiko Hayashi · Yoshie Kashiwabara · Narumi Kayashima

Synopsis A humane comedy, about a feud between a son who works as a photographer's assistant in Tokyo and his parents, who are disappointed in his life.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Keiko Takeshita · Kiichi Nakai

Synopsis When his travels bring him to Western Japan, Tora-san decides to pay his respects to the late Hyoichiro Suwa, his sister's father-in-law. He gets drunk with the priest at the temple, falling in love with the priest's daughter in the...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Ken Ogata · Masako Natsume · Koichi Sato · Yukiyo Toake

Synopsis Fusajiro is a veteran tuna fisherman who lives with his daughter Tokiko. She's in love with Shunichi, who runs a tea shop but wants to become a fisherman himself. Fusajiro neither approves of her marrying a city boy, nor seems...

Direction Takahito Hara

Cast Masatoshi Nakamura · Miho Takagi · Tôru Masuoka · Haruhiko Saitô

Direction So Mizushima

Cast Yuri Nakae · Tsunehiko Watase · Bunta Sugawara · Setsuko Karasuma

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Masatoshi Nagase · Emi Wakui · Miyoko Asada