Cast: Go Kato

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yôko Tsukasa · Go Kato · Tatsuya Nakadai

Synopsis In 1725, during a peaceful period in Japan, Isaburo, a veteran samurai, lives placidly with his wife and his son. One day, his honor and moral principles will be at odds with his clan's. The conflict is inevitable and it...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Mikijiro Hira · Go Kato · Shima Iwashita · Toshie Kimura

Synopsis Gennosuke, a clan retainer, kills one of the clan ministers as part of a plot to achieve reform. He is pursued by his former comrades, each hoping to complete the vendetta put on Gennosuke by the clan. With the help...

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Go Kato · Kensaku Morita · Yôko Shimada

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Go Kato · Yuko Hamada · Isao Yamagata

Synopsis In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Go Kato · Yukiyo Toake · Chikage Awashima · Masatomo Nakabayashi

Synopsis Based on an originally banned book by the surgeon Takashi Nagai, who died of radiation sickness in 1951 after witnessing the bomb blast in Nagasaki, this film is told from the perspective of his son, memories recalled while he is...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Fumio Watanabe · Tomoko Mayama · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Synopsis In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin. Ogami Itto, the official Shogunate executioner, has been framed for...

Direction Yûya Ishii

Cast Ryuhei Matsuda · Aoi Miyazaki · Jô Odagiri · Kaoru Kobayashi

Synopsis Mitsuya majime (Ryuhei Matsuda) es un vendedor de éxito. Pero su amor por la lectura y dedicación, así como un título de postgrado en lingüística, las capturas de los ojos de Masashi Nishioka (Joe Odagiri) y Kouhei Araki (Kaoru Kobayashi),...

Direction Hideo Gosha

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

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Shima Iwashita · Yoshi Kato · Sachiko Hidari · Takahiro Tamura

Synopsis In this Japanese drama, a young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. First she torches her parents' villa, and then slaughters all her lascivious mother's lovers. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent,...

Direction Tomio Kuriyama

Cast Go Kato · Yukiyo Toake · Narimi Arimori · Yumi Kusaka

Synopsis A tale of the bond between a childless middle-aged couple and their small dog.

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Osamu Takizawa · Shinsuke Ashida · Hideki Takahashi · Etsushi Takahashi

Synopsis Yamamoto Satsuo directed this masterful 9 hour epic trilogy on the effects of war on the five generations of a single Japanese family. Based on Gomikawa Jumpei's (The Human Condition) bestselling novel, the film trilogy skillfully blends newsreel and archive...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Ayako Wakao · Go Kato · Ganemon Nakamura

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Kei Yamamoto · Hideki Takahashi · Mizuho Suzuki · Shinsuke Ashida

Synopsis Yamamoto Satsuo directed this masterful 9 hour epic trilogy on the effects of war on the five generations of a single Japanese family. Based on Gomikawa Jumpei's (The Human Condition) bestselling novel, the film trilogy skillfully blends newsreel and archive...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Eiji Okuda · Toshirô Mifune · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Go Kato

Synopsis Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death. Years before: Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter,...

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 Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Shima Iwashita · Go Kato · Mariko Kaga · Kinuyo Tanaka

Synopsis A young woman who has been evacuated to Hokkaido with her family during wartime receives a marriage proposal from the son of the village head, but declines on account of his barbarous acts during the war. She and her family...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Tamasaburo Bando · Go Kato · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Koji Nambara

Synopsis Outside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Their story is of revenge, tragedy, and the power of real love. A classical tale which translates wonderfully to film.

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Go Kato · Komaki Kurihara · Yasushi Nagata · Kinzo Shin

Synopsis A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and the inhospitable snowscapes of the north.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Hideko Takamine · Ken Tanaka · Shinobu Otake

Synopsis Parents campaign to change the law for families who have suffered from violent crime, after their son is murdered.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Go Kato · Hitoshi Ueki · Reiko Ohara · Yoko Shinoyama

Synopsis A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.