Cast: Akiko Koyama

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 Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Tetsuo Abe · Fumio Watanabe · Akiko Koyama · Tsuyoshi Kinoshita

Plot A film that may be less obviously formally experimental than some of Oshima's contemporary works, but is no less politically charged, Boy follows in the footsteps of Death by Hanging...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kenzo Kawarazaki · Atsuko Kaku · Atsuo Nakamura · Akiko Koyama

Plot Oshima Nagisa's The Ceremony is a fascinating study of Japan's war and post-war period, as seen through the eyes of a young man from an influential family. The Ceremony is...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Miyuki Kuwano · Fumio Watanabe · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Shinko Ujiie

Plot One of Oshima's most ingenious and radical films uses the wedding celebration of two young activists as the backdrop for a series of political confrontations shot with a dazzling theatricality,...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hideo Kanze · Hideko Kawaguchi · Saeda Kawaguchi · Narumi Kayashima

Plot A new study by Oshima of the sexuality and violence that mark Japanese society: the portrayal of a rapist and killer of women constructed thanks to the memories of his...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Tatsuya Fuji · Takahiro Tamura · Takuzo Kawatani

Plot Oshima takes the tradition of kaidan-eiga (ghost stories), so widespread in Japanese cinema, to construct this beautiful film on a passionate and tragic love affair that defies social taboos.

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Meiko Kaji · Tsunehiko Watase · Tatsuo Umemiya · Shun Ueda

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hiromi Kurita · Hosei Komatsu · Akiko Koyama · Shôji Ishibashi

Plot Like many of Oshima's films, is an experimental exploration of moral corruption, partly based on a true story. Story is about a Tokyo girl looking round Okinawa island for her...

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Reiko Ike · Chiyoko Kazama · Takashi Fujiki · Miki Sugimoto

Direction Akira Inoue

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Daisuke Kato · Yuko Hamada · Akiko Koyama

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Ken Takakura · Ryo Ikebe · Chiezô Kataoka · Minoru Oki

Direction Ryuichi Takamori

Cast Sonny Chiba · Reiko Ohara · Akiko Koyama · Kanjuro Arashi

Plot Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman originally looking after the boy, was forced to leave town and sell...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Ken Takakura · Akiko Koyama · Keiko Fujita

Plot When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do everything possible to have Honjo step down, which puts Itsuki between a rock...

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Kinshirô Matsumoto · Akiko Koyama · Ushio Akashi · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Takahiro Tamura · Akiko Koyama · Gannosuke Ashiya

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Akiko Koyama · Mizutani Yoshie · Chitose Mashiro

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Sonny Chiba · Akane Kawasaki · Akiko Koyama · Hideo Murota

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Aso Sato · Sumie Kato · Akiko Koyama · Hiroshi Yagyu

Plot Watashi-wa beretto is a promotional film for the automobile manufacturer Isuzu Jidosha directed by Nagisa Ôshima. Yasujirô Ozu assisted as executive creative consultant.

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura · Rentarô Mikuni · Hiroshi Sekiguchi

Plot Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically...

Direction Eiichi Kudo · Hideo Suzuki · Kazuo Ikehiro · Kazuo Mori

Cast Isamu Nagato · Ikkô Furuya · Akiko Nomura · Tamotsu Hayakawa

Plot TV series (1977-1978). 2 seasons. 57 episodes.