Cast: Hiroko Ito

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast Eiji Okada · Kyôko Kishida · Hiroko Ito · Hideo Kanze

Synopsis An entomologist looking for insects in the desert accepts locals' offer to stay with a widow whose house is at the bottom of a sandpit, accessible only by a rope ladder. But overnight, the ladder disappears and there's no way...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Keiji Sada · Takahiro Tamura · Katsuo Nakamura

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Akira Yamauchi · Hiroko Ito · Masako Izumi

Synopsis After his final job as a yakuza hit man, Tetsu, the Silver Fox, is attacked by his latest target's henchmen. Coming to his rescue is Kenji, Tetsu's younger, peaceful brother. In the fray Kenji kills a yakuza and the two...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

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

Synopsis 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 countryside of 1926 Tokyo.

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Chieko Matsubara · Daizaburo Hirata · Hiroko Ito

Synopsis Yakuza icon Akira Kobayashi ("Bloody Territories") is boss Izu's bodyguard Katsuta, who finds himself at the center of a violent power play by the greedy rival boss Yoshida. When Katsuta encounters a mysterious and beautiful femme fatale from his past,...

Direction Masao Adachi

Cast Ukan Abeta · Shoichi Honda · Juri Ihata · Hiroko Ito

Synopsis A man appears and sits on the street. A boy, interested in the man sitting on the street, talks to the man, but the man doesn't say anything. The man just looks in the air. The boy takes a picture...

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Junzaburo Ban · Mitsuko Mito · Kinshirô Matsumoto · Hiroko Ito

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Keiji Sada · Akiko Tamura · Koji Nambara

Synopsis Three robbers target a house inhabited by a young couple and mother-in-law, but each time they attempt a break-in an endless stream of visiting family, lodgers and friends gets in their way.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Teiji Takahashi · Yoshiko Kuga · Takahiro Tamura · Minoru Oki

Synopsis Suda and Sagawa are coworking friends at a steel mill. Suda is new to the plant and is starting to despair at the idea of spending the rest of his life there. Sagawa has accepted his role at the factory...