Cast: Nijiko Kiyokawa

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Isuzu Yamada · Kyôko Kagawa · Ganjiro Nakamura

Synopsis In a slum flophouse, a collection of beggars and thieves bewail their lot in life, and Osugi, the landlady, fights with her sister, Okayo, over the man they both desire, the thief Sutekichi.

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Ken Ogata · Rentarô Mikuni · Mayumi Ogawa · Mitsuko Baisho

Synopsis Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders. Eventually he is chased by the police all over Japan, but somehow he always manages to escape. He meets a woman who runs...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Koume Akasaka · Hiroshi Ayukawa · Shinichi Himori · Moriichi Kawabe

Synopsis Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can’t refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he is on the brink of bankruptcy. Around town he is better known by...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Kan Yanagiya · Minoru Takase · Shoji Kiyokawa

Synopsis Lovely comedy about two actors who play the front and back legs of a horse and feel their artistry is unappreciated. When the self important barber who funds their show decides to replace them with a real horse, they plan...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sachiko Chiba · Ranko Akagi · Heihachiro Okawa · Ko Mihashi

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Hiroyuki Nagato · Sumiko Hidaka · Asao Koike

Synopsis A young woman working at a hot springs saves a suicidal student who has lost the will to live. He falls in love with her and finds meaning in his life but he decides to leave...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Masako Tsutsumi · Heihachiro Okawa · Ryuko Umezono

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Yataro Kurokawa · Akira Kishii · Ureo Egawa · Reiko Miyagawa

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kenichi Enomoto · Hiroshi Horiguchi · Nijiko Kiyokawa · Reiko Miyagawa

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Minoru Oki · Nijiko Kiyokawa · Kyôsuke Machida

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Chiemi Eri · Tomoko Matsushima · Kamatari Fujiwara · Nijiko Kiyokawa

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Chiemi Eri · Izumi Yukimura · Hiroshi Koizumi · Yumi Shirakawa

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Tatsuo Umemiya · Susumu Fujita · Nijiko Kiyokawa · Yôko Mihara

Synopsis After three years away Jiro returns to his paternal village home, only to discover his father has been murdered and the locals main mean of income - fishing - taken over by fully the Ashida gang.

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Miki Fujitani · Yûko Fujimori · Kazuhiko Kanayama

Synopsis It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist, Tsube (Asano), started to live with Kuniko (Fujitani) casually in a small apartment. They are in the depths of poverty and can no longer pay the rent. As a result, they are...

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Minoru Chiaki · Akihiko Hirata · Shoichi Hirose · Yôko Tsukasa

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Norihei Miki · Sonosuke Sawamura · Murasaki Fujima · Kyoko Aoyama

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Cast Yuji Honma · Keizo Kanie · Hideko Okiyama · Chisako Hara

Synopsis Yanagimachi's first feature film is about a young man who makes a map of a neighborhood in which he delivers newspapers. He keeps a dossier on each family, recording their habits and rating how much he dislikes them.

Direction Akira Inoue

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Michiko Sugata · Masumi Harukawa · Nijiko Kiyokawa

Synopsis Daimatsu helped a woman attacked by a group of young men in a town where sexuality, gold and greed swirling dominates, so it is difficult for him to establish a healthy prostitution center.

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Achako Hanabishi · Keaton Masuda · Nijiko Kiyokawa · Michiyo Tamaki

Direction Torajiro Saito

Cast Gantama Ashinoya · Juro Hayashida · Yoshiko Inoue · Hideko Kasahara