Cast: Chieko Matsubara

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Miho Kanno · Hidetoshi Nishijima · Tatsuya Mihashi · Chieko Matsubara

Plot DOLLS comprises three touching stories of true love, directed by Takeshi Kitano. The first installment tells the story of a career-driven man who gives up his girlfriend in favour of...

Direction Takumi Furukawa

Cast Jô Shishido · Chieko Matsubara · Tamio Kawaji · Yûji Odaka

Plot Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rei, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Hideaki Nitani · Ryuji Kita

Plot Tetsu has joined his yakuza boss in going straight, but when a rival gang threatens to bring them back into the gang wars, Tetsu must become a drifter to keep...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Chieko Matsubara · Daizaburo Hirata · Hiroko Ito

Plot Yakuza icon Akira Kobayashi ("Bloody Territories") is boss Izu's bodyguard Katsuta, who finds himself at the center of a violent power play by the greedy rival boss Yoshida. When Katsuta...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Hideaki Esumi · Akiyoshi Fukae · Tamio Kawaji

Plot A riotous, bloody, all-action historical epic, set in 19th Century Tokyo. Akira Kobayashi (Kanto Wanderer) stars as a coal-miner who leads a rebellion against a vicious tyrant, played by Suzuki...

Direction Ryuichi Hiroki

Cast Aoi Miyazaki · Osamu Mukai · Tatsuomi Hamada · Himeka Asami

Plot Married couple Aiko Tsumari (Aoi Miyazaki) and Ayumu Muko (Osamu Mukai) live a happy and peaceful life. Aiko is bit naive, while Ayumu works as a not so popular novelist....

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Hideaki Esumi · Tomoko Hamakawa · Chieko Matsubara · Hosei Komatsu

Direction Keiichi Ozawa

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Eiji Gô · Kenji Imai

Plot Goro (Tetsuya Watari) has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and the...

Direction Tetsuo Shinohara

Cast Noriyuki Higashiyama · Rinko Kikuchi · Yumi Endô · Tatsuya Fuji

Plot Set in the fictional Unasaka domain, the story involves a samurai who's obligated to follow an order that could destroy his relationship with his own younger sister.

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Jô Shishido · Chieko Matsubara · Hideo Murata

Direction Kentarô Hagiwara · Takeshi Moriya · Katsuyuki Motohiro · Atsunori Sasaki

Cast Munetaka Aoki · Yasushi Fuchikami · Chikara Honda · Satoshi Iizuka

Direction Yûya Nakaizumi

Cast Hatsunori Hasegawa · Kan'ichirô Satô · Miyoko Asada · Chieko Matsubara

Plot Shota Igarashi is on the run from the police after committing a crime. He sneaks into a home. An elderly lady Tae Yamamura approaches Shota and mistakes him for her...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Isao Bitô · Takeo Chii · Takuya Fujioka

Plot Minor dispute between the family Sakamoto based in Osaka and Amagasaki Kawahara family becomes a conflict that leads to several deaths in both families. The incident comes just as the...

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Jûshirô Konoe · Tamao Nakamura · Chieko Matsubara

Direction Mio Ezaki

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Kôji Wada · Hiroshi Nawa

Plot Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem, owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer....

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Teruhiko Saigô · Tetsuya Watari · Yukiyo Toake · Chieko Matsubara

Direction Buichi Saito

Cast Chieko Matsubara · Tetsuya Watari · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi · Hiroko Ogi

Plot At the end of the Meiji era, when the new criminal law was enacted, Masaru Asakusa, a former Masaruro Bashigo, declined to retire on this occasion and decided to announce...

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Shôbun Inoue · Yôko Kosono · Akira Kobayashi · Masanori Machida

Direction Mio Ezaki

Cast Eiji Gô · Akira Kobayashi · Yûji Odaka · Chieko Matsubara

Plot A mysterious man who calls himself Macau Dragon disembarks in the port of Yokohama ready to buy a huge diamond that has been stolen by Aizu, the leader of a...

Direction Ryota Nakano

Cast Yû Aoi · Yuito Kamata · Chieko Matsubara · Yuko Takeuchi

Plot A seventy-year-old retired school headmaster informs his wife and daughters that he has Alzheimer's disease. They are all concerned, but react differently due to their individual situations. The family watches...