Cast: Hideko Okiyama

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Choichiro Kawarazaki · Kazuo Kitamura · Yasuko Matsui

Plot The Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island to drill a well to provide water for the sugar mill. He is assisted on the island by Kametaro, from...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Michiyo Oguso · Mariko Kaga · Katsuo Nakamura

Plot The fever-dream follow-up to his acclaimed "Zigeunerweisen", the enigmatically erotic "Kagero-Za" is the second film in Seijun Suzuki's Taishô Trilogy -- this time set in the disjointed cityscapes and surrounding...

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

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

Plot 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...

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Rentarô Mikuni · Teruo Matsuyama · Hideko Okiyama

Plot In the retelling of the story of the legendary Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, the story takes the wanderer into a conflict with a chain and sickle wielding adversary who cannot...

Direction Genjiro Amato

Cast Takijiro Onishi · Shima Ohnishi · Shinobu Terajima · Michiyo Oguso

Plot A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old...

Direction Azuma Morisaki

Cast Kunie Tanaka · Harue Akagi · Mitsuko Baisho · Junzaburo Ban

Plot Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally,...