Cast: Tomoko Naraoka

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Ken Takakura · Shinobu Otake · Ryoko Hirosue · Hidetaka Yoshioka

Synopsis A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Shima Iwashita · Yoshio Harada · Tomoko Naraoka · Taiji Tonoyama

Synopsis Orin is a blind travelling musician who’s expected to remain celibate. However, when she gets raped her traveling music troupe throws her out for allowing it to happen. Now on her own, she pairs up with an anti-militarist man she...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Tamio Kawaji · Tomoko Naraoka · Yoshiko Nezu · Sayuri Yoshinaga

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast Tomoko Naraoka · Sofu Teshigahara

Synopsis Traces the history of ikebana, flower arranging: its origins, its formalization 500 years ago, the emergence of the rikka or standing flower style with its heaven-earth-man trinity, and the influence of Rikyu's simplicity. Enter the modern era, embodied at the...

Direction Katsuhide Motoki

Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Rentarô Mikuni · Rie Miyazawa · Yukio Aoshima

Direction Katsuo Fukuzawa

Cast Takuya Kimura · Haruka Ayase · Masato Sakai · Takeshi Ishimoto

Synopsis A drama commemorating TBS's 60th anniversary, the story is about 11 members who were sent to the South Pole for the first time in February 1957 in a national project to explore Antartica. They were accompanied by a dog-sled of...

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Ken Takakura · Yûko Tanaka · Isao Natsuyagi · Ryuuji Harada

Synopsis A Japanese love story that takes place during World War 2. It follows a young Japanese man who goes to war and tries to stay connected to his true love.

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Yûko Mochizuki · Rentarô Mikuni · Sachiko Hidari · Yoshio Inaba

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Teruhiko Saigô · Tetsuya Watari · Yukiyo Toake · Chieko Matsubara

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Michiyo Aratama · Makoto Fujita · Toshio Kurosawa · Tomoko Naraoka

Synopsis During WWII a soldier is beaten so badly by a superior officer he is left deaf. After the war he is an inventor and meets this officer at the patent office. The man is still the bully he was.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Takaaki Enoki · Koji Ishizaka · Keiko Kishi · Shirô Itô

Synopsis The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater, his granddaughter or grandson.

Direction Yoshinari Nishikôri

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Reiko Takashima · Yuika Motokariya · Shiro Sano

Synopsis The Story of a Man Who Became a Train Operator at the Age of 49

Direction Katsuhide Motoki

Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Rentarô Mikuni · Takehiro Murata · Kei Tani

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Mizuho Suzuki · Hiroko Kino · Mugihito · Sen Hara

Synopsis A Japanese soldier has an affair with a Korean girl at the beginning of World war II. The union produces a child and the backlash of social intolerance of people of different countries. Twenty years later, the soldier is a...

Direction Jûkichi Uno

Cast Yoshiro Kataoka · Tomoko Naraoka · Shunkoku Sha · Masami Shimojô

Synopsis Two young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends.

Direction Tatsushi Ohmori

Cast Eita · Ryuhei Matsuda · Kengo Kora · Yoko Maki

Synopsis Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada (Eita) runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. His assistant is his former high school classmate Haruhiko Gyoten (Ryuhei Matsuda). A big crisis then occurs for them.

Direction Yuzo Asahara

Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Rentarô Mikuni · Toshio Kakei · Makiko Esumi

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Takeo Chii · Katsuhiko Sasaki · Rentarô Mikuni · Mayumi Ogawa

Synopsis Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.

Direction Yoshinari Nishikôri

Cast Shun Sugata · Akira · Denden · Shô Aoyagi

Synopsis In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a samurai so that he can help protect his village from attacks by the various...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Yoshiko Mita · Hiroko Mita

Synopsis In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.