Cast: Kyû Sazanka

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 Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Tatsuya Nakadai · Yôko Tsukasa · Isuzu Yamada

Plot In the 19th century, in a Feudal Japan, a samurai arrives to a rural village that is divided between two groups; neither side is particularly honorable. As he shows his...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Osamu Takizawa · Mickey Curtis · Mantarô Ushio

Plot It is the Philipines, 1945. The Japanese Imperial Army has been reduced to a ragtag mob hiding in the jungles. Among them is Pvt. Tamura. The situation goes from bad...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Tatsuya Mihashi · Akira Takarada · Koshiro Matsumoto

Plot A young lord attempts to combat the official corruption endemic to the Shogunate, only to be placed in an impossible conflict of duties. He refuses to bribe a Chancelor who...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ken Yamauchi · Yoshiko Kôda · Masayuki Mori · Akira Takarada

Plot Hashimoto Shinobu wrote the script based on Ishimori Nobuo’s original story, which won prizes including the first Mimei Literature Award. Depicts an Ainu girl and her younger brother living in...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Mariko Kaga · Takashi Fujiki · Chisako Hara

Plot Muraki, a hardboiled Yakuza gangster, has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder. Revisiting his old gambling haunts, he meets Saeko, a striking young upper-class woman...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Hugh Hurd · Jun Hamamura · Toshirô Ishidô

Plot One of Oshima’s two film adaptations set during World War II, The Catch shows how perceived differences between the Japanese and others perpetuated conflict. In this case, an African American...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Kyôko Kishida · Yusuke Kawazu · Eiji Funakoshi

Plot A childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model.

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ayako Wakao · Eiji Funakoshi · Yuko Hamada · Yûnosuke Itô

Plot The original story of amazingly greedy people with cheat, embezzle and corruption. It's all set in this little apartment of the Maeda family. The son's taking money from the talent...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Hitomi Nozoe · Yûnosuke Itô · Michiko Ono

Plot Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies. His boss builds up Kyoko, a...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Takahiro Tamura · Keiko Awaji · Mikio Narita

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Chikage Awashima · Daisuke Kato · Michiyo Kogure

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Machiko Kyô · Keiji Sada · Miyuki Kuwano · Junko Ikeuchi

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Kojiro Kusanagi · Sachiko Hidari · Taketoshi Naitô · Choko Iida

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Kenji Sugawara · Fujiko Yamamoto · Hitomi Nozoe · Keizo Kawasaki

Plot Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death,...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Jun Fujimaki · Kyôko Enami · Kenji Oyama · Mitsuko Mito

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ayako Wakao · Sô Yamamura · Jun Fujimaki · Frankie Sakai

Plot Koen is a geisha who has intimate relationships with several men at once. One of them, the mature Tsutsui, proposes to set a step to a change of exclusivity.

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Keiko Awaji · Kinuyo Tanaka · Hisaya Ito

Direction Masanori Kakei

Cast Reiko Dan · Noriko Shigeyama · Sonomi Nakajima · Bokuzen Hidari

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Reiko Dan · Nobuko Otowa · Keiko Awaji

Plot Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking...