Cast: Nobuo Nakamura

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Kyôko Kagawa · Yutaka Sada · Takashi Shimura

Plot It is the story of Gondo, a shoe company executive (Toshirô Mifune) planning a boardroom intrigue to gain control of the company. He has raised the capital for his plan,...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Chishu Ryu · Chieko Higashiyama · Setsuko Hara · Sô Yamamura

Plot An elderly couple visit their children in Tokyo, only to be passed around from family to family.

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

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

Plot 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...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Chishu Ryu · Shima Iwashita · Shinichiro Mikami · Keiji Sada

Plot Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year old daughter. He gradually comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Setsuko Hara · Yôko Tsukasa · Shin Saburi · Nobuo Nakamura

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Hideko Takamine · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Choko Iida

Plot 1958: Venice Film Festiva: Golden Lion. Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorite of the town. Matsu helps an injured boy,...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ruriko Asaoka · Nobuo Nakamura · Tetsuo Ishidate · Chitose Kurenai

Plot Koreyoshi Kurahara adapted a novel by Yukio Mishima for Thirst for Love (Ai no kawaki), a tense psychological drama about a young woman who is widowed after marrying into a...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sô Yamamura · Kyôko Kagawa · Isao Kimura · Keiju Kobayashi

Direction Kazuo Inoue

Cast Ineko Arima · Chikage Awashima · Shôhei Imamura · Tatsuya Jô

Plot A documentary by Kazuo Inoue about the life and career of Yasujiro Ozu, which involved his assistant Shohei Imamura (director of The Pornographers and The Eel), critics Donald Richie and...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Keizo Kawasaki · Ayako Wakao · Yosuke Irie

Plot Katsumi is a university student who has no respect for his hardworking parents, his professors, or even his friends. One night after a celebration, he drugs and rapes Akiko, a...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Yosuke Natsuki · Yôko Fujiyama · Hiroshi Koizumi · Nobuo Nakamura

Plot Several satellites have been destroyed without explanation. A few days later, a group of diamond thieves are thwarted when the gems they are after suddenly disappear. Strangely enough, the two...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Russ Tamblyn · Kumi Mizuno · Kenji Sahara · Nobuo Nakamura

Plot An experimental lab animal called a gargantua escapes from his captors and is suspected to be the creature that is killing people all over the countryside. But when the gargantua...

Direction Yasuki Chiba · Motoyoshi Oda

Cast Daisuke Kato · Keiko Tsushima · Seiji Miyaguchi · Nobuo Nakamura

Direction Kôzô Saeki

Cast Sachiko Atami · Murasaki Fujima · Ken Hasebe · Kiyoko Hirai

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Hiroshi Koizumi · Eijirô Tono · Nobuo Nakamura

Plot A promising post-graduate literature student (Nakadai) is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man. One...

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura · Moeko Ezawa · Akiko Kazami

Plot Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory of...

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Mariko Kô · Shûji Sano · Edith Hanson

Plot Saeko, the daughter of a wealthy business man, meets Jôji on the plane, a flight attendant, and quickly falls in love with him. When Saeko starts gathering information about Jôji...

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Tatsuya Nakadai · Fujiko Yamamoto · Chikage Awashima

Plot Adapted from Naoya Shiga's novel about the emotional turmoil of a man who suspects that his wife is committing adultery with his father.

Direction Hiromichi Horikawa

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Chisako Hara · Tatsuyoshi Ehara · Chieko Nakakita

Plot Ishino has a pleasant life as a procurement manager in a good company, a husband with a loving wife and two kids, and a sugar daddy with a mistress. His...

Direction Miyoji Ieki

Cast Tokubei Hanazawa · Haruko Hirata · Kota Hirata · Hiroshi Ikeda

Plot Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr Matsukuma although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and is forced to leave.