Cast: Noboru Nakaya

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Akira Takarada · Daisuke Kato · Keiju Kobayashi

Synopsis Biopic about the Japanese writer Fumiko Hayashi who developed her career from scratch.

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Katsuo Nakamura · Kei Sato

Synopsis This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her. "The...

Direction Toshiya Fujita

Cast Meiko Kaji · Toshio Kurosawa · Masaaki Daimon · Miyoko Akaza

Synopsis Follows the story of the titular assassin seeking vengeance upon the bandits who raped her mother and murdered her father.

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Tatsuya Nakadai · Yukio Mishima · Yujiro Ishihara

Synopsis Izo Okada, a ronin (masterless samurai), desperately seeks a way out of his financial straits. He allies himself with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader, Takechi, and imagines that he has come up in the world. But Takechi makes...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Keiko Kishi · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Kinuyo Tanaka · Masayuki Mori

Synopsis "Her Brother" is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, where it won a prize for Special Distinction. In 2010 the director Yoji Yamada released his own version of...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Mitsuko Baisho · Keiko Takahashi · Kaoru Kobayashi

Synopsis An adult 's romantic drama depicting the conflict between the husband who ran to the woman and the conflicts of the remaining wife who knew that there was not a long life left by an old lover. Tomohiro Takehara of...

Direction Shinichirô Sawai

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Yoshiko Mita · Masanori Sera · Yumi Kusaka

Synopsis Young college student Shizuka is given the opportunity to act in a stage play with professionals. Shizuka is willing to go to great lengths to master this role of a lifetime...

Direction Hideo Ôba

Cast Mariko Okada · Keiji Sada · Shima Iwashita · Kakuko Chino

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Shima Iwashita · Chieko Baisho · Mikijiro Hira · Noboru Nakaya

Direction Shigeyuki Yamane

Cast Hiromi Gô · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Atsushi Kawaguchi · Noboru Nakaya

Direction Yoichi Takabayashi

Cast Akiko Kana · Seiya Nakano · Noboru Nakaya · Kyôko Togawa

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Ken Mitsuda · Yatsuko Tan'ami · Akiko Tamura · Hiro Kumon

Synopsis A three-part film based on short stories about the struggles of women in the early Meiji era. Part 1 tells of a young woman returning home for the first time after her arranged marriage. Parental pleasure at seeing her vanishes...

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Ken Ogata · Harumi Harada · Noboru Nakaya · Sumiyo Hasegawa

Direction Sôkichi Tomimoto

Cast Ayako Wakao · Jiro Tamiya · Kyôko Enami · Mitsuko Mori

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Junko Ikeuchi · Noboru Nakaya · Nobuko Otowa

Direction Toshiyuki Mizutani

Cast Kyôzô Nagatsuka · Mie Nakao · Chiharu · Mitsunaro Hashimoto

Synopsis It was a dark and rainy night. Momentarily distracted, salaryman Motomura runs over a young lady on a bicycle, panics and flees the scene. In discussion with his family, they all agree to cover up the crime, reported on the...

Direction Sadao Nakajima

Cast Shin Saburi · Toshirô Mifune · Chiezô Kataoka · Bunta Sugawara

Synopsis The eastern and western factions of the Yakuza battle to control Japan.

Direction Yûsuke Watanabe

Cast Tetsuya Takeda · Hisayo Ariga · Noboru Nakaya · Mariko Endo

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Toshiyuki Nagashima · Hiroshi Katsuno · Hirotarô Honda · Keiko Takeshita

Synopsis After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Keio universities play one final game before they are drafted into the armed forces and face the hardships of military service.

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Noboru Nakaya · Masako Togawa · Kazuo Kitamura · Yukiyo Toake

Synopsis Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo. While living in a hotel, he is also renting an apartment for fulfilling his sexual appetite. There, he records the results of his 'girl hunts' to the last...