Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Ken Uehara · Masayuki Mori · Daisuke Kato

Direction Jūzō Itami

Cast Tsutomu Yamazaki · Nobuko Miyamoto · Ken Watanabe · Kôji Yakusho

Plot In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro who rides into town like a modern Shane to help Tampopo set up the...

Direction Kô Nakahira

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

Plot 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...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Etsushi Toyokawa · Akira Emoto · Shinobu Otake · Naomasa Musaka

Plot Towards the end of the war, one hundred middle-aged soldiers were sent to the frontline according to lots drawn by their superior officer. On the night of the lottery, a...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Miyuki Kuwano · Fumio Watanabe · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Shinko Ujiie

Plot One of Oshima's most ingenious and radical films uses the wedding celebration of two young activists as the backdrop for a series of political confrontations shot with a dazzling theatricality,...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Hizuru Takachiho · Masahiko Tsugawa · Yusuke Kawazu · Shoji Yasui

Plot Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothings" from a poor background falls in...

Direction Jūzō Itami

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

Plot 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...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Shinobu Otake · Akira Emoto · Hideko Yoshida

Plot The legend of abandoning old people in the mountains is preserved in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan. But similar stories can be found, as folktales, here and there throughout the country....

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Masahiko Tsugawa · Kayoko Honjo · Isao Sasaki · Kamatari Fujiwara

Plot In Osaka's slum, youth without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi,...

Direction Haruki Kadokawa

Cast Takaaki Enoki · Masahiko Tsugawa · Atsuko Asano · Naomi Zaizen

Direction Jūzō Itami

Cast Nobuko Miyamoto · Rentarô Mikuni · Masahiko Tsugawa · Kôichi Ueda

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Chiharu Nîyama · Ryudo Uzaki · Masahiro Kobayashi · Shiro Sano

Plot Three ancient guardian beasts awaken to protect Japan against Godzilla.

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Masahiko Tsugawa · Michiko Saga · Teruyo Yamagami · Sumiko Hidaka

Plot Yokkaichi, a industrial city in full boom. Working in a grand enterprise, Jiro Tezuka knows Harumi in a motorway cafe. He decides to put her working in the bar "Sawa"...

Direction Jūzō Itami

Cast Nobuko Miyamoto · Masahiko Tsugawa · Yuji Miyake · Aki Takejô

Direction Jūzō Itami

Cast Nobuko Miyamoto · Masahiko Tsugawa · Hiroshi Ôkôchi · Ryunosuke Kaneda

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Masahiko Tsugawa · Yuki Sumida · Katsuyo Asari · Jun Hamamura

Plot Noted filmmaker Kaneto Shindo directs this erotic drama adapted from the autobiographical book by renowned writer Nagai Kafu. Kafu, a noted rake and whoremonger, became one of Japan's more celebrated...

Direction Fumihiko Sori

Cast Yamashita Tomohisa · Teruyuki Kagawa · Karina · Yusuke Iseya

Plot What does a young orphan urchin do in the slums of Tokyo? He gets into trouble, into brawls, into fights and eventually he lands in jail. Except this one is...

Direction Hiroyuki Nakano

Cast Masanobu Ando · Megumi Okina · Kumiko Aso · Jun Murakami

Plot Aka Kage, Aoi Kage and Asuka are trio of ninjas sent to perform dangerous secret missions for their master. Although Aka and Aoi are both in love with Asuka, the...

Direction Kaneko Fuminori

Cast Masahiro Nakai · Yuko Takeuchi · Hara Sachie · Chosuke Ikariya

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Keiko Kishi · Takehiko Maeda

Plot Tora-san watches the family shop while the rest of his family takes a vacation to Kyushu. An old friend introduces Tora-san to his sister Ritsuko, and he promptly falls in...