Cast: Kojiro Kusanagi

Direction Takashi Nomura

Cast Jô Shishido · Chitose Kobayashi · Jerry Fujio · Shôki Fukae

Plot A crafty hitman and his cunning sidekick attempt a daring escape after carrying out a high-profile contract and incurring the wrath of a vicious gang.

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Tamio Kawaji · Eiji Gô · Noriko Matsumoto · Yuko Chishiro

Plot A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Jûshirô Konoe · Miwa Takada · Yukiji Asaoka

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Nobuo Kaneko · Kojiro Kusanagi · Kô Nishimura · Mari Shiraki

Plot Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ken Hatano · Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Isamu Kosugi

Plot In Koreyoshi Kurahara’s directorial debut, rebel matinee idol Yujiro Ishihara (fresh off the sensational Crazed Fruit) stars as a restaurant manager and former boxer who saves a beautiful, suicidal club...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

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

Plot 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...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Hiroyuki Nagato · Sumiko Hidaka · Asao Koike

Plot A young woman working at a hot springs saves a suicidal student who has lost the will to live. He falls in love with her and finds meaning in his...

Direction Tadashi Imai

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

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Yoshi Kato · Hiroyuki Nagato · Kirin Kiki · Fumie Kashiyama

Plot Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his...

Direction Takashi Tsukinoki

Cast Rina Uchiyama · Asami Mizukawa · Asahi Uchida · Takashi Tsukamoto

Direction Toshiya Fujita

Cast Jun Etô · Toshiyuki Nagashima · Mayumi Asano · Kaori Takeda

Plot A high school student boarding in Tokyo returns to his hometown in the countryside for his father's funeral.

Direction Shinichirô Sawai

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Yoshiko Mita · Masanori Sera · Yumi Kusaka

Plot Young college student Shizuka is given the opportunity to act in a stage play with professionals. Shizuka is willing to go to great lengths to master this role of a...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Makiko Aoi · Tomio Aoki · Akemi Ebata · Jun Hamamura

Plot While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of...

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Gen Kimura · Ichirô Izawa · Tokubei Hanazawa

Plot A samurai is hired by a girl to assassinate a local officer who has his people terrified.

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Reiko Sasamori · Eiji Gô · Shinsuke Ashida

Direction Kôichi Gotô

Cast Kenichi Kaneda · Kôji Tamura · Shinobu Yûki · Yoshio Harada

Plot Tadao returns from Tokyo to live in his home town. Living with his parents, he gets a job fixing radios and TV sets. He catches up with an old school...

Direction Haruki Kadokawa

Cast Masao Kusakari · Rebecca Holden · Nana Kinomi · Atsuko Asano

Plot The story of Kitano Akio competing in the All-Japan Road Race Championship, the International Class A 500cc class.

Direction Hiroyuki Nasu

Cast Tôru Nakamura · Masumi Miyazaki · Risa Tachibana · Kôjiro Shimizu

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ken Takakura · Junko Sakurada · Philippe Leroy · Nenji Kobayashi

Direction Shinichirô Sawai

Cast Kyôhei Shibata · Takaaki Enoki · Tôru Nakamura · Yôko Minamino

Plot Fukuzawa Yukichi opens a school for samurai, who aim to learn Dutch language, most common for overseas trading. But when he was in Yokohama he learned that English language is...