Cast: Yoshio Kosugi

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Sô Yamamura · Chishu Ryu · Seiji Miyaguchi

Synopsis Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Ranko Hanai · Yuji Hori · Kyôko Kagawa

Synopsis This is a gentle, affectionate take on a middle aged bar hostess, struggling to bring up a child alone and facing financial, sexual and end of career issues, as well as the implied disapproval of society. There is plenty of...

Direction Senkichi Taniguchi

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Yoshio Kosugi · Akitake Kôno

Synopsis Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Yukiko Todoroki · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Synopsis Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, comes to the city to apprentice at a jujitsu school. His first night, he sees Yano in action, a master of judo, a more spiritual art, and he begs to be Yano's student. As the...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Kyôko Kagawa · Yuriko Hoshi · Yoshiko Kuga

Synopsis Mohei is a wandering samurai, lost in grief and despair after his family is wiped out. He arrives in the city of Osaka, where the Toyotomi clan accepts him and comes to depend upon his courage and his battlefield skills....

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Shogoro Ichikawa · Ryu Kuze · Yosuke Natsuki

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi · Hugo Grimaldi

Cast Makoto Satô · Misa Uehara · Keiju Kobayashi · Toshirô Mifune

Synopsis Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Kenji Sahara · Yumi Shirakawa · Momoko Kôchi · Akihiko Hirata

Synopsis Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on. But when they are discovered to be invaders, responsible for the giant robot that is destroying cities, the armed...

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Mie Hama · Susumu Fujita

Synopsis Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain momentum in the war is for the air force to gather its most brilliant pilots...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Tadao Takashima · Kenji Sahara · Yu Fujiki · Ichirô Arishima

Synopsis A pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently released Godzilla.

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Kyôko Anzai · Chishu Ryu · Asami Kuji

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Setsuko Hara · Yosuke Natsuki · Chiemi Eri

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Shogoro Ichikawa · Yuriko Hoshi · Mayumi Ozora · Ichirô Arishima

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Koji Tsuruta · Yôko Tsukasa · Misa Uehara

Synopsis Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting and befriending Taro, Rokuro decides to return the money to Taro. But...

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Sô Yamamura · Ryo Ikebe · Ichiro Sugai

Direction Sotoji Kimura

Cast Yuriko Hanabusa · Katsuji Honjo · Setsuko Horikoshi · Keiji Sakakida

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Asami Kuji · Machiko Naka · Keiko Sawai

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Makoto Fujita · Minoru Shiraki · Hajime Hana · Yu Fujiki

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Setsuko Wakayama · Haruko Sugimura · Ryo Ikebe · Chieko Higashiyama

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi · Masao Shimizu · Eijirô Yanagi

Synopsis Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but overruled, leads his forces...