Cast: Koreya Senda

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Narutoshi Hayashi · Raizô Ichikawa · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Akitake Kôno

Plot Set in 12th Century Japan against a rich social and political background, TALES OF THE TAIRA CLAN is an epic tale of power struggles, family drama, and human frailty. Special...

Direction Richard Fleischer · Kinji Fukasaku · Toshio Masuda

Cast Martin Balsam · Sô Yamamura · Joseph Cotten · Tatsuya Mihashi

Plot In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they are attempting to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy...

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Machiko Kyô · Kazuo Hasegawa · Isao Yamagata · Yataro Kurokawa

Plot In 1350, during an attempted coup, one of the court's ladies in waiting disguises herself as the lord's wife, and a loyal samurai conveys her from the city. This diversion...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Mitsuko Mito · Kuniko Miyake · Ichiro Sugai

Plot A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Sô Yamamura · Sugisaku Aoyama · Kyoko Asagiri

Plot The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Jûkichi Uno · Nobuko Otowa · Harold Conway · Masao Mishima

Plot Daigo Fukuryū Maru (第五福龍丸?, Lucky Dragon 5) was a Japanese tuna fishing boat, which was exposed to and contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States’ Castle Bravo thermonuclear device...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Akihiko Hirata · Kenji Sahara · Koreya Senda · Yumi Shirakawa

Plot A drug dealer named Misaki disappears leaving only his clothes. The next day the police go to question his girlfriend, singer Chikako Arai, and she informs them that she doesn't...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Kôzô Nomura · Ayumi Sonoda · Fumito Matsuo · Koreya Senda

Plot When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. However, when they get there they...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Kyôko Anzai · Koreya Senda · Minoru Takada

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Ayako Wakao · Yukihiko Iwatare · Akihiko Yusa · Yoshiro Kitahara

Plot The mare of the Shiraishi, humble farmers, stop a foal they call Takeru. The little one of the family, Jirô, is crazy about Takeru, despite the fact that the foal...

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Ken Takakura · Wakaba Irie · Chieko Naniwa

Direction Ishirô Honda

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

Plot 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...

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Machiko Kyô · Raizô Ichikawa · Ayako Wakao

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Keiko Awaji · Chieko Higashiyama · Akira Ishihama

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Koreya Senda · Jûkichi Uno · Haruko Sugimura

Plot Kyoto, in the beginning of the Showa period (late 1920s/early 1930s). Fujiko, the daughter of a priest, has after graduating from girls’ high school married the butcher’s son Shintaro. Shintaro’s...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Chikako Hosokawa · Eijirô Tono · Taiji Tonoyama

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Hideko Takamine · Kumeko Otowa · Yoshio Kosugi · Sadako Sawamura

Plot An early, wartime take on the Japanese "Idol" movie. Young-Girl-Star Hideko Takamine plays a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Tatsuo Hanabu · Gen Harada · Yuzo Hayakawa

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Ayako Wakao · Yôko Minamida · Miki Odagiri · Bontarô Miake

Plot Four teenage girls lost an awakening to the world of sex: Kaoru is a Christian who lives in dislike of men after being raped; Eiko has an absolute fixation by...

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Bin Amatsu · Keiko Awaji · Minoru Chiaki · Tatsuya Nakadai