Cast: Taiji Tonoyama

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Jitsuko Yoshimura · Kei Sato · Taiji Tonoyama

Synopsis After enlisting as a volunteer in a war in 14th century Japan, his wife and mother remain living in a swamp. They eke out their living by ambushing worn-out warriors, killing them and selling their belongings to a greedy merchant....

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Choko Iida · Hohi Aoki · Eitarô Ozawa · Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Synopsis In post-war Japan, a man brings a lost boy to his tenement. No one wants to take the child for even one night; finally, a sour widow, Tané, does. The next day, complaining, she takes the boy to his neighborhood...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Taiji Tonoyama · Nobuko Otowa · Shinji Tanaka · Masanori Horimoto

Synopsis Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago. Several times a day they row over to the neighboring island to fetch water for their...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Takahiro Tamura · Nobuo Chiba · Yuzo Hayakawa

Direction Kaneto Shindô

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

Synopsis 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 found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Taiji Tonoyama · Nobuko Otowa · Kei Sato · Kei Yamamoto

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Takashi Shimura · Toshirô Mifune · Reisaburo Yamamoto · Chieko Nakakita

Synopsis A drunken doctor with a hot temper works in a village whose most prominent geographical feature is a disease-ridden sump. Businesses and social life are infected by the yakuza, or mob. The leading gangster in the village comes to the...

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Masumi Harukawa · Hisashi Igawa · Saburo Ishikura

Synopsis The true story about a dog's loyalty to its master, even after his death.

Direction Kaneto Shindô

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

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Haruko Sugimura · Takeshi Katô · Taiji Tonoyama

Synopsis Tamiko is a single mother. Her son Toshio is going blind. He is diagnosed with a brain tumour. She does not have the money for surgery and asks her mother Yoshie for it. Yoshie refuses but arranges a marriage with...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Osamu Takizawa · Niwa Saito · Tsuneko Yamanaka

Synopsis Post war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to call on old friends.

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Junichiro Yamashita · Tamao Nakamura · Ganjiro Nakamura

Synopsis Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, a celebrated writer whose fictions also furnished plots for directors from Tadashi Imai to Masahiro Shinoda, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife....

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Setsuko Hara · Osamu Takizawa · Masayuki Mori · Yumeko Aizome

Synopsis After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the house before leaving. The seemingly cold, cynical son secretly grieves...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Michiyo Kogure · Machiko Kyô · Nobuko Otowa

Synopsis Based on the classic novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Ken Ogata · Rentarô Mikuni · Mayumi Ogawa · Mitsuko Baisho

Synopsis Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders. Eventually he is chased by the police all over Japan, but somehow he always manages to escape. He meets a woman who runs...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Shizuko Kasagi · Tomiko Hattori · Kayo Matsuo · Hiroyuki Nagato

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Emiko Aizawa · Masumi Harukawa · Sachiko Hidari · Daizaburo Hirata

Synopsis Tome was born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. She is molested from childhood by her stepfather. As a young adult she moves from her rural village to find work in factory, where she engages in an...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Shima Iwashita · Yoshio Harada · Tomoko Naraoka · Taiji Tonoyama

Synopsis Orin is a blind travelling musician who’s expected to remain celibate. However, when she gets raped her traveling music troupe throws her out for allowing it to happen. Now on her own, she pairs up with an anti-militarist man she...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Isuzu Yamada · Sumiko Hidaka · Sô Yamamura

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

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

Synopsis 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 known to be Oshima's most autobiographical work, as he was...