Cast: Kanzaburo Nakamura

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Takahiro Tamura · Hideko Takamine · Shogoro Ichikawa · Kichiemon Nakamura

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yoshiko Sakuma · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yujiro Ishihara

Plot Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562. Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of...

Direction Miwa Nishikawa

Cast Shôfukutei Tsurube · Eita · Teruyuki Kagawa · Haruka Igawa

Plot Director Miwa Nishikawa hit the ground running with her wicked 2003 debut, Wild Berries (Hebi Ichigo). Small, tightly wound tales dealing with duplicity, plot twisting revelations and keen eye for...

Direction Masahiko Tsugawa

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Yoshino Kimura · Hôka Kinoshita · Akira Tanaka

Plot A dying old man named Shomantei has one last request. It is a different one. He would like to see the vagina of a young and pretty virgin. The family...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Teiji Takahashi · Yoshiko Kuga · Kanzaburo Nakamura · Rentarô Mikuni

Plot Yasuko, a dissatisfied housewife struggling to make ends meet, leaves his husband working in Tokyo and returns to her parents' home in Nagano, so the couple can rent their home...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Shichinosuke Nakamura · Kantarou Nakamura · Yajuro Bando · Kanzaburo Nakamura

Plot The Kabuki 'Lion Dance' features a father and a son who explore their relationships and power dynamics. A renowned kabuki actor and his two sons enact the lion and his...

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Keiko Awaji · Kanzaburo Nakamura · Reiko Dan

Direction Senkichi Taniguchi

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Daisuke Kato · Michiyo Aratama · Yosuke Natsuki

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Kei Yamamoto · Hideki Takahashi · Mizuho Suzuki · Shinsuke Ashida

Plot Yamamoto Satsuo directed this masterful 9 hour epic trilogy on the effects of war on the five generations of a single Japanese family. Based on Gomikawa Jumpei's (The Human Condition)...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Akira Takarada · Tadao Takashima · Junko Ikeuchi

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Yajuro Bando · Mitsugorô Bandô · Ichizo Kataoka · Kamezo Kataoka

Direction Akihiko Shiota

Cast Hideaki Ito · Mimura · Kin'ya Aikawa · Chieko Baisho

Plot A group of people suddenly find themselves 20 years in the past. Hiroshi, a 30 year-old businessman, regard it as an opportunity to help a young woman from his past,...

Direction Hideyuki Hirayama

Cast Kyôko Koizumi · Kanzaburo Nakamura · Akira Emoto · Keiko Awaji

Plot There comes a time in the life of a prostitute where clients start gravitating away. It is the inevitable result of being past one's prime, aging and of course becoming...

Direction Junji Sakamoto

Cast Naomi Fujiyama · Etsushi Toyokawa · Michiyo Oguso · Riho Makise

Plot Sullen and withdrawn 'ugly' elder sister Masako toils endlessly with mending chores in her widowed mother's dry cleaning shop, seething with hatred for her flashy younger sister Yukari, who visits...

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Keiko Awaji · Kanzaburo Nakamura · Ichirô Arishima

Direction Tamasaburo Bando

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Masaya Kato · Kiichi Nakai · Reona Hirota

Plot Melodrama about a woman refusing surgery.

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Kanzaburo Nakamura · Kyôko Kagawa · Yûnosuke Itô · Ineko Arima

Plot A womanizing local governor in a flashy red tabard wields his clout and makes advances to another man's wife. He tries his best to make her his own, but in...