Cast: Pîtâ

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Akira Terao · Jinpachi Nezu · Pîtâ

Plot A reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that he's about to divide his kingdom equally among his three...

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Cast Osamu Ogasawara · Shotari Akiyama · Kiyoshi Awazu · Emiko Azuma

Plot A gay son kills his mother and sleeps with his father in this Japanese version of the Oedipus legend.

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Tatsuya Nakadai · Reiko Ohara · Masayuki Mori

Direction Hajime Tabe

Cast Mitsuro Fukikoshi · Kobuhei Hayashiya · Masami Hisamoto · Nezumi Imamura

Plot A mad doctor displays a selection of her more gruesome case studies. Starting with one family whose heads explode if they get angry and a woman whose heart explodes if...

Direction Katsuo Fukuzawa · Kenta Tanaka · Takayoshi Tanazawa

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Tao Tsuchiya · Danshun Tatekawa · Ken Yasuda

Plot TV Miniserie (2015). 14 episodes. Tsukuda Kohei was once a researcher with the Aerospace and Science Exploration Agency and now runs Tsukuda Industries, a small factory which was left by...

Direction Ryû Murakami

Cast Kunihiko Mitamura · Mari Nakayama · Haruhiko Saitô · Keiko Wakasa

Plot In the mid-1970s, a small group of friends are living in a Japanese town near an American air force base, their lives revolve around sex, drugs and rock 'n roll....

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Masaharu Arikawa · Shôki Fukae · Koreharu Hisatomi · Hirotarô Honda

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Shunsuke Kubozuka · Shinnosuke Mitsushima · Keishi Nagatsuka · Tokio Emoto

Plot Fulfilling his filmmaking dream of 40 years, Nobuhiko Obayashi's luminous new feature "Hanagatami" delivers a timeless story of the pureness of youth beset by the chaos of war.

Direction Ryuichi Hiroki

Cast Yû Aoi · Masaki Okada · Pîtâ · Jun Murakami

Plot The mentally troubled son of a shogun falls for a girl who's been raised in the mountains.

Direction Motohiro Torii

Cast Reiko Ohara · Junko Natsu · Tsunehiko Watase · Asao Koike

Plot A trio of teenaged tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get into trouble deep.

Direction Eiichi Kudo · Hideo Suzuki · Kazuo Ikehiro · Kazuo Mori

Cast Isamu Nagato · Ikkô Furuya · Akiko Nomura · Tamotsu Hayakawa

Plot TV series (1977-1978). 2 seasons. 57 episodes.

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Reiko Ike · Yukie Kagawa · Shinsuke Taki · Hiroshi Miyauchi