Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Shintarô Morimoto · Marino Kuwajima · Tadanobu Asano · Rei Dan

Plot A young boy lives in poverty with his grandfather while tending his dream of becoming a painter.

Direction Nobuhiko Hosaka

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Mieko Harada · Frankie Sakai · Kyôko Enami

Plot Remake of classic samurai film of 1932.

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Koji Tsuruta · Ken Takakura · Shinjiro Ebara

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Hibari Misora · Katsuo Nakamura · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Plot Young lord Genjiro, who abandoned his castle to live as a commoner in Edo, returns home to resotre peace amidst disruption over an inheritance dispute. Warned by a fortune-teller that...

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Chiemi Eri · Katsuo Nakamura · Hiroko Sakuramachi

Plot A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. The warm friendship that grows between the carpenter.

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Katsuo Nakamura · Kotaro Satomi · Eitarô Shindô

Direction Shô Igarashi

Cast Misato Tanaka · Susumu Terajima · Ryo Kase · Katsuo Nakamura

Plot Tells the life story of Teru Kaneko, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While working as a clerk in a book shop, Teru starts writing her...

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Miwako Fujitani · Kaoru Kobayashi · Morio Kazama

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Shima Iwashita · Kyôko Kishida · Katsuo Nakamura · Shinjiro Ebara

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Yoshio Harada · Atsuo Nakamura · Kayo Matsuo · Sanae Kitabayashi

Plot Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they...

Direction Tomio Kuriyama

Cast Mihoko Fujita · Michiko Hayashi · Yoshie Kashiwabara · Narumi Kayashima

Plot A humane comedy, about a feud between a son who works as a photographer's assistant in Tokyo and his parents, who are disappointed in his life.

Direction Takumi Kimizuka

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Shoko Tamura · Kaori Fujii · Tsunehiro Arai

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Ayako Wakao · Kyû Sazanka · Nobuko Otowa · Katsuo Nakamura

Direction Shin Togashi

Cast Sôsuke Ikematsu · Hiroshi Abe · Masatô Ibu · Sosuke Takaoka

Direction Setsurô Wakamatsu

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Norika Fujiwara · Satoshi Tokushige · Nenji Kobayashi

Direction Yoshinari Nishikôri

Cast Shun Sugata · Akira · Denden · Shô Aoyagi

Plot In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a samurai so that he...

Direction Miyoji Ieki

Cast Chikage Awashima · Shûichi Ikeda · Katsuo Nakamura · Masao Oda

Plot The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The year is 1910 and the place...

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Yoshiko Sakuma · Katsuo Nakamura · Ganjiro Nakamura · Hisano Yamaoka

Plot Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo to work as a shamisen string maker. There she meets and falls for Ukichi, a young and naive co-worker. But her peaceful life is...

Direction Setsuo Nakayama

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Etsuko Ichihara · Michiko Hayashi · Rie Kimura

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Katsuo Nakamura · Keiko Matsuzaka · Shinjiro Ebara

Plot An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the Kamakura period (1185-1333) in Japan. Nichiren taught devotion to the Lotus Sutra...