Cast: Yôko Takahashi

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Komaki Kurihara · Yôko Takahashi · Kinuyo Tanaka · Ken Tanaka

Plot An old woman tells her heartrending story of her experience as a "karayukisan," the young Japanese women sent to southeast Asia to pay off their family debts by working as...

Direction Shinichirô Ueda

Cast Takayuki Hamatsu · Yuzuki Akiyama · Harumi Shuhama · Ayana Gôda

Plot One Cut of the Dead begins with a film crew shooting a zombie horror flick in an isolated, abandoned water filtration plant, allegedly once used for human experiments by the...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Tsutomu Yamazaki · Mayumi Ogawa · Yoshio Harada · Yôko Takahashi

Plot In a tale that is visually stunning in certain segments, director Shuji Terayama (who died before this movie was released) has woven a spell of magic and social reprobation around...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Yumiko Nogawa · Mikio Narita · Yôko Takahashi

Plot In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji Fukasaku shows the battles among...

Direction Etienne Périer

Cast Carroll Baker · James Shigeta · James Yagi · Tetsurô Tanba

Plot An American woman marries a Japanese diplomat on the eve of World War II... In 1930, while vacationing in Washington, D. C., Tennessee-born Gwen Harold falls in love with and...

Direction Alex Burunova

Cast Tania Nolan · Adi Shankar · LeSean Thomas · Toshihiro Hirano

Plot What is anime? Through deep-dives with notable masterminds of this electrifying genre, this fast-paced documentary seeks to find the answers.

Direction Hitoshi Ôsu

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Yôko Takahashi · Tetsurô Tanba · Shin Kishida

Plot A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword instructor, a man whose sword and spear skills are second to none.

Direction Kôhan Kawauchi · Ken Sano · Ken Yamada · Ishirô Honda

Cast Machiko Soga · Akihiko Hirata · Kakuko Motoyama · Megumi Itô

Plot TV series (1972-1973). 52 episodes. Thanks to a Buddhist hermit in India, a young Japanese wrestler transforms into a 7-phased superhero and fights an evil organization hell-bent on destroying Japan.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Koji Ishizaka · Keiko Kishi · Akiko Nishina · Koji Kita

Direction Kenji Yoshioa

Cast Ken Tanaka · Yôko Takahashi · Akemi Negishi

Plot Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while alone in the...

Direction Kôichi Saitô

Cast Yôko Takahashi · Etsushi Takahashi · Kyôko Kishida · Rentarô Mikuni

Plot The girl (Yoko Takahashi) leaves her mother (Kyoko Kishida) who's a painter leaving her a note "Mom, don't be surprised, and don't cry. I left on a journey. I'm not...

Direction Katsu Kanai

Cast Karuko Aiyama · Motoharu Jônouchi · Katsu Kanai · Kurenai Kanda

Plot The Stormy Times is a collection of three short films created as a series of visual poems (Dream Running, Grasshopper’s One-Game Match, andWe Can Hear Joe’s Poem). Katsu Kanai screened...