Cast: Komaki Kurihara

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Komaki Kurihara · Yôko Takahashi · Kinuyo Tanaka · Ken Tanaka

Synopsis An old woman tells her heartrending story of her experience as a "karayukisan," the young Japanese women sent to southeast Asia to pay off their family debts by working as prostitutes.

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Tatsuya Nakadai · Shin Kishida · Yôsuke Kondô

Synopsis The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers to), the head-quarters of a group of...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Shin Saburi · Mayumi Ogawa · Keiko Kishi · Komaki Kurihara

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Noboru Andô · Tetsurô Tanba · Kyôko Enami

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Komaki Kurihara · Yûko Kotegawa · Yoshiko Tanaka · Kumiko Ohba

Synopsis Story follows a group of high school girls trained as nurses during World War II who witness the horrors of war first-hand on Okinawa.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Kinya Kitaoji · Keiju Kobayashi · Keiko Tsushima

Direction Kiyoshi Nishimura · Sergey Solovev

Cast Komaki Kurihara · Andrei Leontovich · Sergey Polezhaev · Yelizaveta Solodova

Synopsis A Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and cultural boundaries.

Direction Shun-ichi Kobayashi

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Komaki Kurihara · Chieko Misaki

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Komaki Kurihara · Kojiro Hongo · Katsuo Nakamura

Synopsis In Magoichi Saga (Shirikurae Magoichi, Daiei,1969) Magoichi Saika (Kinnosuke Nakamura) has fallen in love with a woman whose face he never saw. With an apparent foot fetish obsession, he spends the first portion of the film looking for the woman...

Direction Aleksandr Mitta

Cast Georgi Zhzhyonov · Anatoli Vasilyev · Leonid Filatov · Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Kei Yamamoto · Hideki Takahashi · Mizuho Suzuki · Shinsuke Ashida

Synopsis Yamamoto Satsuo directed this masterful 9 hour epic trilogy on the effects of war on the five generations of a single Japanese family. Based on Gomikawa Jumpei's (The Human Condition) bestselling novel, the film trilogy skillfully blends newsreel and archive...

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Shin Saburi · Nobuko Otowa · Mayumi Ogawa · Komaki Kurihara

Direction Xie Jin

Cast Yi Ding · Komaki Kurihara · Pu Cunxin · You Yong

Synopsis In 1945, Japan is defeated in its war of aggression against China. During a panic retreat, a baby boy is abandoned, but is adopted and grows up to become and eminent monk. Thirty years later, he visits China and meets...

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 Guts Ishimatsu

Cast Guts Ishimatsu · Komaki Kurihara · Raita Ryû · Mio Takaki

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Komaki Kurihara · Jun Miho

Synopsis Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested in work. Tora-san follows her to Shikinejima, and attempts to bring her back to her home. In doing...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Komaki Kurihara · Misako Watanabe · Toyoto Fukuda · Kiyoto Harada

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Komaki Kurihara · Katsuki Shin · Tadashi Yokouchi · Shinsuke Ashida

Direction Shirô Moritani

Cast Shôgo Shimada · Ken Takakura · Hideji Ôtaki · Kinya Kitaoji

Synopsis Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army tackled Mount Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Youki Kudoh · Hisashi Igawa · Kirin Kiki · Komaki Kurihara

Synopsis An auto repairman’s daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up, and the girl is able to piece together her aunt’s tragic story.