Cast: Toshio Kurosawa

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Michiyo Aratama · Mitsuko Kusabue · Tatsuya Mihashi

Plot Although Naruse demonstrated mastery of both color and cinemascope in his 60s films, he reverted to black-andd-white Academy format for his antepenultimate film. Perhaps this use of a conservative format...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Yôko Tsukasa · Eitarô Ozawa · Daisuke Kato

Direction Toshio Masuda · Hajime Takaiwa

Cast Atsuo Nakamura · Sanae Tsuchida · Kei Sato · Isamu Nagato

Direction Toshiya Fujita

Cast Meiko Kaji · Toshio Kurosawa · Masaaki Daimon · Miyoko Akaza

Plot Follows the story of the titular assassin seeking vengeance upon the bandits who raped her mother and murdered her father.

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Akira Kobayashi · Tatsuo Umemiya · Toshio Kurosawa

Plot In what was originally intended to be the ultimate chapter in the crime film saga, citizen groups and the law begin fighting back against the Yakuza clans whose bloody rivalry...

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 Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Noboru Andô · Tetsurô Tanba · Kyôko Enami

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Keiko Aikawa · Kazuko Ineno · Keizo Kanie

Plot Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer,...

Direction Chang Cheh · Pao Hsueh-Li · Wu Ma

Cast David Chiang · Ti Lung · Chen Kuan-Tai · Wong Chung

Plot This martial arts masterpiece is based on the true legend of how 108 rebel heroes living in the mountain, known as the Mountain Brothers, were able to repeatedly defeat invading...

Direction Seiji Maruyama

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yûzô Kayama · Yôko Tsukasa · Toshio Kurosawa

Plot As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war,...

Direction Seiji Maruyama

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Tatsuya Nakadai · Yûzô Kayama · Chishu Ryu

Plot Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian...

Direction Michio Yamamoto

Cast Toshio Kurosawa · Mariko Mochizuki · Kunie Tanaka · Shin Kishida

Plot Dracula, played by an uncredited caucasian, was shipwrecked in the 1600s in Japan, when Christianity was illegal. He was forced to spit on the cross and wander alone in the...

Direction Minoru Kawasaki

Cast Seizô Katô · Toshio Kurosawa · Nao Nakazawa · Saaya Irie

Plot Titled Neko Rahmen Taisho the film is based on a manga about a little white cat running a ramen noodle shop and, true to form, the title character is played...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Keiko Matsuzaka · Yoshida Eisaku · Ren Osugi · Toshio Kurosawa

Plot The housewife and other part-time private detective Noriko Yamada old tricks again uncovering mysterious business cases corrupt. But this time will solve adopting the style of "Beatrix Kiddo" (character played...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Michiyo Aratama · Makoto Fujita · Toshio Kurosawa · Tomoko Naraoka

Plot During WWII a soldier is beaten so badly by a superior officer he is left deaf. After the war he is an inventor and meets this officer at the patent...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Toshio Kurosawa · Yumi Shirakawa · Shoichi Ozawa

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Asami Kuji · Keiju Kobayashi · Yôko Tsukasa

Direction Kiyoshi Nishimura

Cast Toshio Kurosawa · Noriko Takahashi · Shin Kishida · Taiji Tonoyama

Direction Hideo Onchi

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

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Ryo Ikebe · Gorô Ibuki · Masataka Iwao

Plot The historical drama follows the wartime experiences of the respected admiral who attempted to force America into considering a negotiated peace during World War Two.