Cast: Shigeru Kôyama

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 Kiyoshi Miyakoshi

Cast Isao Natsuyagi · Sonny Chiba · Takeshi Maya · Kazue Ito

Synopsis This remake of the classic film features the addition of Chiba Shinichi and Natsuyagi Isao as political intrigue reigns supreme. Tadanaga, the younger son of Shogun Hidetada has signed a dangerous pact with the intention of preventing his older brother...

Direction Takashi Tsukinoki

Cast Mitsuyo Asaka · Morimoto Christina · Hiroshi Fujioka · Hiroshi Fuse

Synopsis Amy Watanabe is a cute, Japanese-American college-coed whose father and grandfather are both Japanese. While she has never been to Japan herself, she holds a deep love for the country and has dreamed of going there to study. As fate...

Direction Yasushi Akimoto

Cast Keiko Matsuzaka · Yuta Yamazaki · Ken Ogata · Eriko Watanabe

Synopsis A successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine disrupted when her former boyfriend's son appears in her life. She is not connected to the boy, but his father has been in an...

Direction Setsurô Wakamatsu

Cast Ken Watanabe · Teruyuki Kagawa · Erika Toda · Shun Sugata

Synopsis A drama based on the 1985 plane crash that caused 520 deaths, the worst aviation event in Japanese history.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Etsushi Toyokawa · Yûko Asano · Yu Ji Chin Ye · Hisashi Igawa

Synopsis A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later. Despite the Asian setting, it has a sort of strong sense of the gothic that brings to mind the works of...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Atsuo Nakamura · Ryôko Sakaguchi · Ittoku Kishibe · Takeshi Katô

Synopsis Although 5 years have passed since the reported death of roving gambler Kogarashi Monjiro, the rumors of his survival has struck fear into the heart of Gorozo, the biggest boss in the Joshu area. Having been rescued from drowning by...

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Yoshiko Sakuma · Mayumi Ogawa · Morio Kazama · Shigeru Kôyama

Synopsis The unexpected death of Fujishima Motoharu, president of a medium-sized firm, triggers a fierce battle over his estate inheritance among family members.

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ken Utsui · Junko Kano · Hideo Takamatsu · Shigeru Kôyama

Synopsis Yasuzo Masumura based his story on prize winning Edogawa Ranpo's book [Hanayaka na shitai]. It's a thriller about a Food Company's boss being killed and the search for his murderer. Part of the movie is a trial movie.

Direction Yōjirō Takita

Cast Kyôko Koizumi · Hiroshi Mikami · Hiroyuki Sanada · Masako Motai

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shima Iwashita · Jinpachi Nezu · Kyôko Kishida · Shinsuke Ashida

Synopsis The palmist "blue-moth (Seiga)" is rumored to manipulate the Japanese political and business from behind. Journalist Omoda had inquired into the "blue-moth" but is killed. Sudo who is Omoda's juniors of the newspaper he used to be in took over...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tanie Kitabayashi · Toru Kazama · Hiroshi Nishikawa · Katsuyasu Uchida

Direction Yû Irie

Cast Ryuhei Matsuda · Hirofumi Arai · Mari Hamada · Keisuke Horibe

Direction Toru Murakawa

Cast Yoshizumi Ishihara · Masato Furuoya · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Hiroshi Katsuno

Synopsis A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their situation becomes increasingly desperate as events spin out of control, culminating in an audacious hijack at sea.

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Naoto Ogata · Masao Hayashi · Ryuzo Hayashi

Direction Éric Rochat

Cast Bridgette Andersen · Masato Fukazama · Morikiyo Bowhay · Hiroyuki Watanabe

Synopsis When Suzie and her parents take a visit to Japan her father's business partner, an inventor called Tetsuro decides to make Suzie a robot. The robot's name is 'Too Much' (or TM for short) and he and Suzie become the...

Direction Michiyoshi Doi · Mitsuo Murayama

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Chûsha Ichikawa · Kozuki Noboru · Miyoko Akaza

Synopsis The famous Japanese legend of the enforced suicide of Lord Asano and the epic attempt by his loyal forty-seven samurai to avenge their unjustly punished lord is the basis for this year-long drama.

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Yûko Asano · Sae Isshiki · Yui Natsukawa · Hidetoshi Nishijima

Synopsis In spite of a longstanding tradition forbidding women from working in a sake brewery, Retsu, a young blind woman, challenges herself to overcome her disability in order to save her family's sake business.

Direction Shinichirô Sawai

Cast Toru Kazama · Isako Washio · Ryo Amamiya · Go Kato

Synopsis In April 1895, the talented young Rentaro Taki comes to Tokyo from his home in Kyushu to enrol in the prestigious National Academy of Music. Hoping to become a pianist, he meets another student there, Yuki Nakano, who shares the...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Ichirô Nakatani · Yôko Asaji · Takashi Ebata