Cast: Haruko Mabuchi

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Eitarô Ozawa · Jun Negami

Synopsis The spirit of Resnais runs deep in this existential melodrama. A young woman on a mountaineering holiday is accused of murdering her husband. Tied to a mountain between her brutalising spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes. To prevent all...

Direction Mitsuteru Yokoyama · Eizo Yamagiwa

Cast Yumiko Kokonoe · Hiroshi Ashino · Jūzō Itami · Haruko Mabuchi

Direction Hôjin Hashiura

Cast Yoichi Miura · Kazuhito Takei · Ako · Moeko Ezawa

Synopsis Hideo is the leader of the motorcycle gang The Bears. He beats up the leader of a rival gang The Scorpions without a reason. The Scorpions retaliate, which lands Hideo severly injured in the hospital of Hiroshi's father. Hiroshi, the...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Yûko Tanaka · Kenji Sawada

Synopsis Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburo, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all...

Direction Isao Yukisada

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Ken Watanabe · Etsushi Toyokawa · Toshirô Yanagiba

Synopsis In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now displaced Samurais of the older days. After two...

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Jun Etô · Haruko Mabuchi · Hajime Hana · Yoshio Harada

Synopsis Matsori no junbi based on the novel of the same name by screenwriter Nakajima Takehiro, which takes its title from a picture by Paul Gauguin. This autobiographical film about a young man who dreams of becoming a screenwriter is set...

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Narumi Yasuda · Rentarô Mikuni · Atsuro Watabe · Mitsuko Baisho

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Mayu Tsuruta · Riona Hazuki · Takaya Kamikawa

Synopsis As the great military commander Nobunaga Oda was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins, killing every man, woman and child he found in the village. Years later, one of...