Cast: Rokko Toura

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Kichiemon Nakamura · Nobuko Otowa · Kiwako Taichi · Kei Sato

Plot A woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Nobuko Otowa · Ichirô Zaitsu · Kotoe Hatsui

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Sô Yamamura · Chishu Ryu · Seiji Miyaguchi

Plot Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kei Sato · Fumio Watanabe · Toshirô Ishidô · Masao Adachi

Plot A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation...

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 Kenji Misumi

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Michiyo Oguso · Akihiro Tomikawa · Shingo Yamashiro

Plot Fifth film in the Lone Wolf & Cub Series. 5 warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each has 1/5th of Ogami's assassin fee and 1/5 of the information he needs to...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kenzo Kawarazaki · Atsuko Kaku · Atsuo Nakamura · Akiko Koyama

Plot Oshima Nagisa's The Ceremony is a fascinating study of Japan's war and post-war period, as seen through the eyes of a young man from an influential family. The Ceremony is...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Miyuki Kuwano · Fumio Watanabe · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Shinko Ujiie

Plot One of Oshima's most ingenious and radical films uses the wedding celebration of two young activists as the backdrop for a series of political confrontations shot with a dazzling theatricality,...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Mikio Narita · Chizu Hayashi · Kaneko Iwasaki

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Koji Takahashi · Eiji Okada · Kei Sato · Jun Hamamura

Plot Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Tadanori Yokoo · Rie Yokoyama · Kei Sato · Juro Kara

Plot The film centers around Birdie, a young, Japanese book thief who soon is caught by a woman named Umeko. As they become young lovers, the two begin stealing books together....

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Yoshiko Mita · Makoto Satô · Kô Nishimura

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Mariko Kaga · Yumiko Nogawa · Masako Yagi

Plot Director Nagisa Oshima's film uses the "pink" genre to mask an allegory about the materialism of post-war Japan (the original title translates as "Indulgence"). Katsuo Nakamura stars as a man...

Direction Yukio Noda

Cast Miki Sugimoto · Eiji Gô · Tetsurô Tanba · Hideo Murota

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hiromi Kurita · Hosei Komatsu · Akiko Koyama · Shôji Ishibashi

Plot Like many of Oshima's films, is an experimental exploration of moral corruption, partly based on a true story. Story is about a Tokyo girl looking round Okinawa island for her...

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Ken Yoshizawa · Yoko Muto · Rokko Toura · Hatsuo Yamatani

Plot After taking part in a violent demonstration, a man fights with his policeman brother, ending in tragedy when the authoritarian sibling gets shot by his own wife. The man runs...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Hideo Kanze · Meg Flower · Taiji Tonoyama

Plot Based on the Noh drama with the same name, The Iron Crown is about a woman plotting revenge against her husband who leaves her for a younger woman. Shindo's adaptation...

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 Koreyoshi Kurahara

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

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Ayumi Ishida · Hideki Takahashi · Toshiyuki Nagashima