Cast: Masako Nakamura

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Hugh Hurd · Jun Hamamura · Toshirô Ishidô

Plot One of Oshima’s two film adaptations set during World War II, The Catch shows how perceived differences between the Japanese and others perpetuated conflict. In this case, an African American...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Hiroyuki Nagato · Sumiko Hidaka · Asao Koike

Plot A young woman working at a hot springs saves a suicidal student who has lost the will to live. He falls in love with her and finds meaning in his...

Direction Tsuneo Kobayashi

Cast Kô Nishimura · Kenichi Enomoto · Mitsuru Hagiwara · Shin Ibuki

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Shinjiro Ebara · Eiji Okada · Eijirô Tono · Takashi Shimura

Plot A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners.

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Shinjiro Ebara · Eijirô Tono · Yûko Mochizuki · Sen Hara

Plot Released in English-speaking countries as Rice and The Rice People, Japanese filmmaker Tadashi Imai's Kome is perfectly in keeping with his previous paeans to the proletariat. The heroes and heroines...

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Masao Mishima · Takashi Shimura · Eitarô Shindô