Cast: Mitsuko Baisho

Direction Akira Kurosawa

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

Plot In 16th century Japan, Shingen, a powerful warlord, has become as legendary as the motto emblazoned on his war banners: "Swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

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

Plot Akira Kurosawa's Dreams comprises eight dream sequences, featuring impressive special effects and beautiful scenery from Japan. Kurosawa's dream sequences are elusive, metaphoric and influenced by Japanese legends, reflecting in some...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

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

Plot 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...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

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

Plot 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...

Direction Hideyuki Hirayama

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

Plot 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...

Direction Hideo Gosha

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

Plot 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...

Direction Ryosuke Hashiguchi

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

Direction Kaneko Fuminori

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

Direction Shinzô Katayama

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

Plot 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...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

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

Direction Sogo Ishii

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

Plot 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:...

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

Plot 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...

Direction Fumihiko Sori

Cast Yamashita Tomohisa · Teruyuki Kagawa · Karina · Yusuke Iseya

Plot 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...

Direction Hideyuki Hirayama

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

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

Plot 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...