Cast: Masakazu Tamura

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Tatsuya Nakadai · Keiji Sada · Nobuko Otowa

Plot Slow-paced but endowed with understanding, characters of some depth and complexity, and good direction, this slice-of-drama by Keisuke Kinoshita is taken from a bitter confection. The tale begins when Sadako...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yoshiko Sakuma · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yujiro Ishihara

Plot Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562. Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Michiyo Oguso · Shoichi Ozawa · Masakazu Tamura · Sachiko Murase

Plot An updated adaptation of Tanizaki's 1924 novel Naomi about a middle-aged factory engineer who trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she turns him into a slave to...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Keiko Sakurai · Kei Sato · Tetsuo Ashida · Yoshiyuki Fukuda

Plot A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in...

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Meiko Kaji · Masakazu Tamura · Yumi Kanei · Hiroshi Tsukata

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Michiyo Oguso · Masakazu Tamura · Machiko Hasegawa · Kayo Mikimoto

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Mariko Okada · Teruo Yoshida · Masakazu Tamura · Norihei Miki

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Yoko Namikawa · Kikko Matsuoka · Masakazu Tamura

Plot Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involved in a series of dangerous encounters.

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Shin Saburi · Masakazu Tamura · Kyôko Enami · Kayo Matsuo

Plot Political fixer Homei Yamaoka’s misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confusion. But he’s not going down without a fight.

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Junko Ikeuchi · Keizo Kawasaki · Kazuo Kitamura · Masakazu Tamura

Plot Temari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her younger sister. Famous director Gosho Heinosuke's last film.

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 Akira Inoue

Cast Masakazu Tamura · Tatsuya Nakadai · Shiho Fujimura · Isao Hashizume

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Naoko Otani · Masakazu Tamura · Yusuke Kawazu

Plot A yakuza member's half-sister means much more to him in a film that repeatedly depicts realities other than what normal societal rules allow. The overly protective and loving brother; however,...

Direction Toshiaki Tahara

Cast Masakazu Tamura · Maya Kitajima · Reiko Kasahara

Plot Female inmates on a desert island prison run by sadistic guards deal with the arrival of a new warden - a disgraced official determined to prove his toughness, while a...

Direction Makoto Kiyohiro · Daisuke Yamamuro · Nobuhiro Doi · Kan Ishibashi

Cast Maki Horikita · Takashi Kobayashi · Toshiyuki Nishida · Machiko Ono

Plot A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and daughters.

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Ryo Ikebe · Masakazu Tamura · Yaeko Mizutani

Plot Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother’s been thrown out of the gang and his girlfriend’s married another man. It’s payback time.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Mariko Okada · Bunta Sugawara · Eiji Okada · Takeshi Katô