Cast: Mitsuko Baisho

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Kenichi Hagiwara · Daisuke Ryû

Synopsis In Kagemusha the Shadow Warrior (1980), directed by Akira Kurosawa, a petty thief is spared execution due to his uncanny resemblance to a dying warlord. Recruited as a double, or "kagemusha," he must impersonate the powerful leader to maintain the...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Martin Scorsese · Akira Terao · Mitsuko Baisho · Mieko Harada

Synopsis Dreams (Akira Kurosawa's Dreams) (1990) is a visually stunning anthology film composed of eight vignettes, each born from the director's own dreams and fantasies. Through a series of surreal and poetic narratives, the film explores themes of nature, humanity, and...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Misa Shimizu · Mitsuko Baisho · Akira Emoto

Synopsis The film opens with Takuro Yamashita (Koji Yakusho), a seemingly normal salaryman, learning that his wife might be having an affair. When he catches the couple in flaganto delicto, he freaks out and brutally stabs them both to death. Eight...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Ken Ogata · Rentarô Mikuni · Mayumi Ogawa · Mitsuko Baisho

Synopsis Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders. Eventually he is chased by the police all over Japan, but somehow he always manages to escape. He meets a woman who runs...

Direction Hideyuki Hirayama

Cast Riho Makise · Kantarou Nakamura · Akira Emoto · Ayako Kawahara

Synopsis Maki is a young nursery teacher and talented copper plate printing artist. One day she's hit by a truck and awakes on a deck chair in her house in the empty city. She seems to have died and experiences the...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Tatsuya Nakadai · Yukio Mishima · Yujiro Ishihara

Synopsis Izo Okada, a ronin (masterless samurai), desperately seeks a way out of his financial straits. He allies himself with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader, Takechi, and imagines that he has come up in the world. But Takechi makes...

Direction Ryosuke Hashiguchi

Cast Tae Kimura · Lily Franky · Mitsuko Baisho · Susumu Terajima

Synopsis At work, Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, silently observes crimes and scandals of the 1990s and the decline of Japanese values. At home in joys of marriage, he quietly observes his wife’s first pregnancy. When their child dies, the couple...

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Ken Takakura · Kimiko Ikegami · Kinya Kitaoji · Mitsuko Baisho

Direction Samira Makhmalbaf · Claude Lelouch · Youssef Chahine · Danis Tanovic

Cast Ernest Borgnine · Ken Ogata · Tetsurô Tanba · Tomorô Taguchi

Synopsis A reaction piece to the United States' terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, this controversial film calls upon eleven directors from various countries to contribute 11-minute 9-second films about the event. Variously political, violent, disturbing, abstract, opinionated,... A reaction piece...

Direction Kaneko Fuminori

Cast Kazunari Ninomiya · Kou Shibasaki · Maki Horikita · Hiroshi Tamaki

Direction Shinzô Katayama

Cast Yûya Yagira · Shô Kasamatsu · Riho Yoshioka · Mahiro Takasugi

Synopsis TV Series (2022-). 1 Season. 7 Episodes. The story is set in the fictional village “Okamura” in the mountains of Japan. Daigo Agawa, a resident police officer who has been assigned to the village, is warmly welcomed by the villagers...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Misa Shimizu · Mitsuko Baisho · Mansaku Fuwa

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Katsuya Kobayashi · Mitsuko Baisho · Yoshiki Arizono · Youki Kudoh

Synopsis The Kobayashi family finally get the chance to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment in favour of the suburban house of their dreams. But all is not well: the house is infested by termites and the family starts...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Norihei Miki · Ken Ogata · Leonard Kuma · Mitsuko Baisho

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Shima Iwashita · Takashi Yamaguchi · Shogoro Ichikawa

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Ryuzo Hayashi · Nobuko Otowa · Mitsuko Baisho · Dai Kanai

Synopsis After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s the rough-hewn blind shamisien player and folk-song collector named Chikuzan became a musical sensation. This biographical drama chronicles his wanderings and his life, with a particular...

Direction Fumihiko Sori

Cast Yamashita Tomohisa · Teruyuki Kagawa · Karina · Yusuke Iseya

Synopsis What does a young orphan urchin do in the slums of Tokyo? He gets into trouble, into brawls, into fights and eventually he lands in jail. Except this one is not just beating, he has a raw talent and a...

Direction Hideyuki Hirayama

Cast Mieko Harada · Mitsuko Baisho · Shigeru Muroi · Naomi Nishida

Synopsis Four down on their luck housewives murder their husbands and find whacky ways to hide the bodies!

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Mitsuko Baisho · Keiko Matsuzaka · Hideki Takahashi

Synopsis In 1973, Shochiku Studios released Tai Kato's updated two-part version of Miyamoto Musashi, this time with Hideki Takahashi in the title role. In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Mitsuko Baisho · Keiko Takahashi · Kaoru Kobayashi

Synopsis An adult 's romantic drama depicting the conflict between the husband who ran to the woman and the conflicts of the remaining wife who knew that there was not a long life left by an old lover. Tomohiro Takehara of...