Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Keiko Awaji · Eiko Miyoshi

Plot Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Frantic and ashamed, he dashes about trying to recover the weapon without success until...

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Yasuko Sanjo · Juro Kara · Masao Imafuku

Plot A stark, desperate tale of vengeance, Shura examines the plight of Gengobe (a Ronin), and his quest to right the wrongs done unto him. This is basically the whole plot...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Kayo Matsuo · Akiji Kobayashi · Minoru Oki

Plot In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Michiko Kuwano · Mitsuko Miura · Shin Tokudaiji

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Tetsurô Tanba · Hitomi Nakahara · Tatsuo Umemiya

Plot Kuroki, a journalist for a trade paper, is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in the illegal arms trading was also involved in...

Direction Kôji Ohta

Cast Sonny Chiba · Ryûko Minakami · Mitsue Komiya · Seiichirô Kameishi

Plot Slow-moving aliens from the planet Neptune, wearing nosecone-shaped space helmets, attempt to invade Earth in a winged rocketship. But they are thwarted by a mysterious superhero called Space Chief who...

Direction Tatsuo Ôsone

Cast Minoru Oki · Mariko Okada · Chishu Ryu · Akira Yamanouchi

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Ichirô Nakatani · Mayumi Ogawa · Gaku Yamamoto

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Keiko Takahashi · Shin Saburi · Kinya Kitaoji

Plot Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoiled region in which they live into a land development.

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Kazuko Ichikawa · Tatsuo Hanabu · Fumiko Okamura

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Hibari Misora · Akira Ishihama · Azusa Yumi · Akihiko Katayama

Plot An adaptation of the Kawabata Yasunari short story.

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Koreya Senda · Masao Mishima · Ranko Akagi · Yutaka Izumihara

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Mieko Takamine · Hideko Takamine · Keiko Kishi · Yoshiko Kuga

Plot A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Ken Takakura · Sô Yamamura · Yoshi Kato · Mitsue Komiya

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Yôko Yaguchi · Kyôko Kusajima · Masao Mishima · Eitarô Ozawa