Cast: Shinsuke Ashida

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Shinsuke Ashida · Yusuke Kawazu · Ranko Akagi

Synopsis In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards,...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Shinsuke Ashida · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi · Tamotsu Hayakawa

Synopsis Eight years into her marriage, Miyako looks happy on the outside, but in fact she is not satisfied with her husband, Yuzo, who cares about nothing but his career. Miyako has been having an affair with a young interior designer...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Shizuko Kasagi · Tomiko Hattori · Kayo Matsuo · Hiroyuki Nagato

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Ayuko Fujishiro · Taizô Fukami

Synopsis Spending their summer on an exotic beach, fall for the same beautiful girl. The brothers are part of a group of teenagers who congregate around their wealthy American friend. Things take a turn for the worse when each brother realizes...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Toru Abe · Shinsuke Ashida · Seizaburô Kawazu · Mie Kitahara

Synopsis A talented young artist painted a picture of Wakako Kyogoku when she was a little girl. The piece was entitled “Girl” and Wakako held it dear to her heart. Years later, she takes the painting to an art gallery in...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Hiroyuki Nagato · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Shoichi Ozawa · Shinsuke Ashida

Synopsis A businessman returns from an extended trip, but something seems off. Criminal operations and religious cults come into play, while the man's daughter and her journalist boyfriend race to find the truth.

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Hiroyuki Nagato · Kayo Matsuo · Takeshi Okimura · Akiko Maeda

Direction Jūzō Itami

Cast Nobuko Miyamoto · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Masahiko Tsugawa · Shinsuke Ashida

Synopsis Ryoko Itakura is a government tax agent who has just landed a big promotion. Her first assignment is to catch wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo. She has a tough job, since in Japan tax evasion is an art and Gondo is, in...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Tamio Kawaji · Tomoko Naraoka · Yoshiko Nezu · Sayuri Yoshinaga

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Michitaro Mizushima · Mari Shiraki · Shinsuke Ashida · Toru Abe

Synopsis Mari Shiraki (Rajo To Kenju) stars as a gangster's girlfriend who is pushed into joining his diamond-smuggling operation.

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Michitaro Mizushima · Mari Shiraki · Misako Watanabe · Shinsuke Ashida

Synopsis A sharpshooter kills two prisoners in a police van at night. The guard on the van is suspended for six months; he's Tamon, an upright, modest man. He begins his own investigation into the murders. Who were the victims, who...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Hiroyuki Nagato · Masayuki Mori · Mihoko Inagaki

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Yumiko Nogawa · Shinsuke Ashida · Minoru Oki

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Kojiro Kusanagi · Sachiko Hidari · Taketoshi Naitô · Choko Iida

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Mari Shiraki · Masumi Okada · Shoji Yasui

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Sô Yamamura · Tatsuya Mihashi · Isuzu Yamada · Mie Kitahara

Synopsis WWII is at an end. Baby boomers are in full bloom. Minister Araki is introducing a healthcare bill that aims to establish “Birth Control Consultation Centers” across Japan. As his speech echoes in the national assembly, his wife receives a...

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Hideaki Nitani · Nobuo Kaneko

Synopsis A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Ayumi Ishida · Hideki Takahashi · Toshiyuki Nagashima

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Masao Shimizu · Tatsuya Fuji · Izumi Ashikawa · Shinsuke Ashida

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Shinsuke Ashida · Mitsuo Hamada · Yujiro Ishihara · Hiroshi Kondô

Synopsis The stage is Solomon County Island at the end of WWII. Yujiro, who is dressed as a captain of the "rogue troops", left behind in the small islands, draws a way to lead the troops by a strong bond, eventually...