Cast: Shigeru Kôyama

Direction Yoshiki Onoda

Cast Kichiemon Nakamura · Yumi Takigawa · Etsushi Takahashi · Shigeru Kôyama

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Naomi Akimoto · Narimi Arimori · Tatsuya Fuji · Eiichi Furui

Synopsis A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss.

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Kiyoshi Atsumi · Kuniyasu Atsumi

Synopsis A group of ultra-right military prepares a coup d'etat, code-named August Without the Emperor, with the goal of establishing a military dictatorship.

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Toshirô Mifune · Tetsurô Tanba · Teruhiko Aoi

Synopsis Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War 1904 - 1905. In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ruriko Asaoka · Hisashi Igawa · Renji Ishibashi · Saburo Ishikura

Direction Shunsaku Kawake

Cast Takuya Kimura · Koichi Sato · Eri Fukatsu · Shin'ichi Tsutsumi

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura · Rentarô Mikuni · Hiroshi Sekiguchi

Synopsis Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Shiho Fujimura · Andrew Hughes

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Koji Ishizaka · Mieko Takamine · Keiko Kishi · Yôko Tsukasa

Synopsis In order to solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family’s country estate, family secrets and lies dating back several generations must be sorted out once and for all. In...

Direction Shin Hirano · Sawada Kensaku

Cast Takuya Kimura · Eri Fukatsu · Akira Terao · Rosa Kato

Synopsis Keita Asakura, 35, a primary school teacher from rural Nagano Prefecture whose recently deceased father had been a politician from Kyushu. An all-around nice guy, Keita has no interest in politics and agrees to run only to get everyone off...

Direction Yutaka Osawa

Cast Tomokazu Miura · Yasufumi Hayashi · Misako Tanaka · Mayumi Ogawa

Synopsis Based on the non-fiction books by Takushi Ono (the NHK announcer, not the gymnast) and Yoshinari Tobe.

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Yôko Minamino · Masahiro Takashima · Rino Katase

Synopsis A pimp and a young geisha are torn between their love for each other and the tradition that forbids their relationship.

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Shima Iwashita · Shinobu Sakagami · Kaori Okamoto · Yusuke Okada

Synopsis Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but satisfying job and a girlfriend. Then his mother, unable to fight her forbidden desires, shows...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Jûkichi Uno · Takashi Kanda