Cast: Akihiro Miwa

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Hideaki Sasaki · Masahiro Saito · Yukiko Kobayashi · Fudeko Tanaka

Plot Terayama's audacious first film is a psychological study of alienation and a plea for sociopolitical revolution for the countercultural generation of the 1960s. In fragmented and imbalanced images, the film...

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Kotomi Kyono · Kayoko Kishimoto · Ren Osugi

Plot Shortly after completing Sonatine, director Takeshi Kitano conceived of a film about an ordinary guy who enters an imaginary world inside his own head. This idea comes to fruition in...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Akihiro Miwa · Isao Kimura · Kikko Matsuoka · Jun Usami

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Mako Midori · Akihiro Miwa · Hajime Hana · Osami Nabe

Plot Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.

Direction Sadao Nakajima

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Jin Nakayama · Casey Takamine · Mitsuko Baisho

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Akihiro Miwa · Eitarô Ozawa · Masakazu Tamura · Ayako Hosho

Plot The mysterious chanteuse Ryoko Fujio arrives in town and begins to perform at Sako Kyohei's Black Rose Mansion. She appears and leaves at the same times every day. No one...

Direction Pascal-Alex Vincent

Cast Akihiro Miwa · Kinji Fukasaku · Takeshi Kitano · Hayao Miyazaki

Plot In 1968, a Japanese detective film was released called Black Lizard—it went on to be come a cult classic. The main character was an enchanting screen presence who captured the...

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Yôko Tsukasa · Akira Takarada · Mitsuko Kusabue · Hiroshi Koizumi

Plot Romantic melodrama with Tsukasa a bar owner who falls for the son of a company president (Takarada), who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with...