Cast: Terumi Niki

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yûzô Kayama · Yoshio Tsuchiya · Kyôko Kagawa

Plot In the Nineteenth Century, in Japan, the arrogant and proud just-graduated Dr. Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) is forced to work in the Koshikawa Clinic, a non-profit health facility ruled by...

Direction Steven Okazaki

Cast Steven Spielberg · Martin Scorsese · Haruo Nakajima · Takeshi Katô

Plot Prominent Japanese/American director Steven Okazaki is set to shoot “Mifune: Last Samurai,” a high-profile feature docu on Toshiro Mifune, the most prominent actor of Japan’s golden age of cinema.

Direction Toshiharu Ikeda

Cast Miyuki Ono · Aya Katsuragi · Hitomi Kobayashi · Eriko Nakagawa

Plot Nami hosts a late night home video program. She receives a tape which appears to be a real snuff film. She and her crew investigate the location where she meets...

Direction Toshiharu Ikeda

Cast Naomi Kawashima · Akira Emoto · Mikio Ohsawa · Kenji Imai

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Hiroshi Akutagawa · Kakuko Chino · Natsuko Kahara · Kyôko Kishida

Plot A woman's husband died that summer. She is well off and lives in a villa with her servant. The two reminisce about their younger years. The woman's older brother died...

Direction Hideo Onchi

Cast Yôko Naito · Toshio Kurosawa · Tatsuyoshi Ehara · Nobuko Otowa

Direction Seiji Hisamatsu

Cast Toru Abe · Michiyo Aratama · Izumi Ashikawa · Sumiko Hidaka

Plot From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Jun Tazaki · Hisako Takihana · Kyôko Kagawa

Direction Tetsu Maeda

Cast Kiyoshi Maekawa · Yû Yamada · Shôno Hayama · Kurumi Shimizu

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Mie Kitahara · Nobuko Otowa · Rentarô Mikuni · Nobuo Kaneko

Direction Seiji Hisamatsu

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Masao Mishima · Hisaya Morishige · Miki Odagiri

Plot Set and filmed in the mountain regions of Fukushima, Policeman's Diary looks at Japanese peasants through the eyes of several policemen. Life seems to be untainted by the outside world...

Direction Rintaro Mayuzumi · Taisuke Kawamura · Tomohiko Yamashita · Kenji Nakanishi

Cast Hideaki Takizawa · Nana Katase · Taiga Kyômoto · Masahiro Takashima

Plot Under the rule of Shogun Ienari, the samurais and the townspeople are all discontented and grumbling about their lot in life. Amidst all these, there lives a man by the...

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Yûnosuke Itô · Yûko Mochizuki · Terumi Niki

Plot Yoshigoro the tinsmith looks unsuccessfully for work in postwar Tokyo. His wife Oyuki must beg his former employers for loans. Her neighbors are also faring poorly; one has a terminally...