Cast: Sen Hara

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Kei Sato · Minoru Chiaki

Synopsis Second World War. Forced to join the japanese army, Kaji is sent to Manchuria. There, he becomes friends with a soldier who sympathizes with communism. After a visit from his wife, Kaji is sent to the battlefield, from which many...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Choichiro Kawarazaki · Kazuo Kitamura · Yasuko Matsui

Synopsis The Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island to drill a well to provide water for the sugar mill. He is assisted on the island by Kametaro, from the inbred Futori family. Nekichi Futori is chained in a...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Yoshio Harada · Isao Kimura · Sen Hara · Kaoru Yachigusa

Direction Jūzō Itami

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

Synopsis 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 perfect fast-food noodle restaurant. Woven into this main story are...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Takahiro Tamura · Hideko Takamine · Shogoro Ichikawa · Kichiemon Nakamura

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Shiho Fujimura · Akira Ishihama · Machiko Hasegawa · Jun Fujikawa

Synopsis A young apprentice and his master are looking in the mountains a very special tree to carve a statue of the goddess Kannon. After finding it, begin a very big blizzard and found themselfs obliged to take refuge in a...

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 Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Takeshi Kaga · Masato Furuoya · Jun Hamamura · Sen Hara

Synopsis The final entry in the Kosuke Kindaichi series of the late seventies.

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Teruyo Asagumo · Chizuru Kitagawa · Ryutaro Otomo

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Chizuru Kitagawa · Isamu Kosugi · Kuniko Miyake

Direction Zenzo Matsuyama

Cast Hideko Takamine · Keiju Kobayashi · Sen Hara · Michiko Araki

Synopsis After losing her husband, Akiko, a young deaf woman, meets and marries a deaf and dumb man who falls for her. Despite their lack of financial resources and the burden of their disabilities, they decide to have a baby.

Direction Kichitaro Negishi

Cast Toshiyuki Nagashima · Johnny Okura · Eri Ishida · Rie Yokoyama

Synopsis A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Chikako Hosokawa · Eijirô Tono · Taiji Tonoyama

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Satoko Chikamatsu · Haehiko Fuyuki · Sen Hara · Akane Hisano

Synopsis MINOWADA has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to him. Strong-willed Kayo, a doctor is also attracted to him. A mediator tries to arrange a marriage but just at that point MINOWADA...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Chieko Takehisa · Osamu Takizawa · Eitarô Ozawa · Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru

Direction Tsuneo Kobayashi

Cast Sen Hara · Jun Usami · Takamaru Sasaki · Mitsue Komiya

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Hideaki Nitani · Yasushi Suzuki · Michiyo Yokoyama

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 Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Riki Takeuchi · Tomokazu Miura · Toshiyuki Nagashima · Kaho Minami

Direction Toichiro Narushima

Cast Takahiro Tamura · Atsuko Kaku · Hisano Yamaoka · Rokko Toura