Cast: Ben Hiura

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Masumi Harukawa · Hisashi Igawa · Saburo Ishikura

Plot The true story about a dog's loyalty to its master, even after his death.

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Tetsurô Tanba · Yôko Tsukasa

Plot A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Etsushi Takahashi · Shigeru Kôyama · Akira Kubo

Plot Tatsuya Nakadai stars as Genta, a former samurai who became disillusioned with the samurai lifestyle and left it behind to become a wandering yakuza (gang) member. He meets Hanjiro Tabata...

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Tatsuya Fuji · Masaomi Kondo · Akira Nakao · Masanobu Katsumura

Plot Ryuzo (Tatsuya Fuji) and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud....

Direction Yûji Shimomura

Cast Tak Sakaguchi · Kento Yamazaki · Arata Yamanaka · Yôsuke Saitô

Plot This film, taken around the time of "Out and Deluxe," consists of the most famous battle of the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. In this 77-minute, one-scene, no-cut action sequence, Miyamoto (Tak...

Direction Yûji Shimomura

Cast Tak Sakaguchi · Kentaro Seagal · Takamasa Suga · Osamu Takahashi

Plot In an unknown place and unknown time, a lone Samurai known only as Grave (Tak Sakaguchi) thirsts for the ultimate battle. Grave has stolen a mysterious coffin from the holy...

Direction Seiji Chiba

Cast Masanori Mimoto · Shuji Kashiwabara · Donpei Tsuchihira · Mika Hijii

Plot Once upon a time in Japan, there was a band of great Ninja warriors led by Yamata called Iga Ninja. One day they witness a flash in the sky and...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Junko Mihara · Kie Nakai · Nana Okada · Eri Ishida

Direction Akio Jissoji

Cast Ben Hiura · Yumiko Mitome · Ren Saitô · Kôji Shimizu

Plot When faced with an accidental gas leak, four bored students turn the situation into a game. The last one to leave the apartment gets a small sum of money.

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Chieko Baisho · Tamami Hirose · Gin Maeda · Mako Ishino

Plot April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts winning, she starts...

Direction Katsu Kanai

Cast Kazuko Aoki · Jun Arai · Ayuko Asakawa` · Ben Hiura

Plot A young man brought up in a nunnery escapes from the abusive nuns into the disconcerting outside world.

Direction Kenzo Maihara · Ryuta Tazaki · Hidenori Ishida

Cast Kôji Seto · Kôhei Takeda · Yû Takahashi · Keisuke Kato

Plot Living a Shut-in for most of his life, 22 year old Wataru Kurenai seeks to fulfill his dream of surpassing his late father in crafting a amazing violen while also...

Direction Jun Fukuda

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Tatsuya Mihashi · Makoto Satô · Ryo Tamura

Plot Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they ever have, creating enmity and exhaustion....

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Reiko Dan · Hideo Sunazuka · Eisei Amamoto

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Makoto Satô · Reiko Dan · Yûnosuke Itô

Plot Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and...

Direction Takeshi 'Ken' Matsumori · Masahiro Takase · Susumu Kodama · Yasuki Chiba

Cast Yosuke Natsuki · Yôko Fujiyama · Daisuke Kato · Yu Fujiki

Plot TV series (1965-1966). 41 episodes.

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Kôichi Iwaki · Miki Sakai · Kazue Tsunogae