Cast: Shinjiro Ebara

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yoshiko Mita · Masayuki Mori · Kyôko Kishida

Plot Episodic chronicle of one family's lineage and how it has been affected by the strict code of deference to the feudal lords.

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Sachiko Hidari · Shinjiro Ebara · Isao Natsuyagi

Plot Japanese auteur Kinji Fukasaku examines the trauma of World War II in his home country in the docu-drama UNDER THE FLAG OF THE RISING SUN (GUNKI HATAMEKU MOTONI). Taking his...

Direction Kiyoshi Saeki

Cast Ken Takakura · Ryo Ikebe · Yoshiko Mita · Shinjiro Ebara

Plot After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Tomomi Satô · Yôko Mihara · Tetsurô Tanba

Plot Blackmail Is My Life centers on a quartet of young daredevils who've discovered blackmail as a means to enjoy the booming economy from which they've been excluded. When they try...

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Sô Yamamura · Kenji Imai · Eitarô Shindô

Plot Takakura is a young gang boss tricked by the villainous Toru Abe. His underlings, lead by Chiezo Kataoka, start planning for revenge after Takakura dies in jail.

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Ken Takakura · Rentarô Mikuni · Kinya Kitaoji · Shinjiro Ebara

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Ken Takakura · Chiezô Kataoka · Tatsuo Umemiya · Tatsuo Matsumura

Direction Hajime Satô

Cast Kô Nishimura · Yûko Kusunoki · Harold Conway · Shinjiro Ebara

Plot A man, Chonin Mitake, dies crazy after long agony, and his dead body is cremated. His widow Yoshi, investigating on the past of her husband, goes to the mansion where...

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Shinjiro Ebara · Eiji Okada · Eijirô Tono · Takashi Shimura

Plot A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners.

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

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

Direction Junya Sato

Cast Yoshiko Sakuma · Yoshiko Mita · Rentarô Mikuni · Tetsurô Tanba

Plot Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional.

Direction Tadashi Imai

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

Direction Tsuneo Kobayashi

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Shinjiro Ebara · Junkichi Orimoto · Kenji Imai

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Ken Takakura · Sô Yamamura · Mitsuko Miura

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Naoko Kubo · Shiho Fujimura · Kayo Matsuo

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Shinjiro Ebara · Hitomi Nakahara · Eiji Okada · Isao Kimura

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Ken Takakura · Tetsurô Tanba · Naoki Sugiura · Shinjiro Ebara

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Wakaba Irie · Isao Kimura · Chieko Naniwa

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Koji Tsuruta · Shinjiro Ebara · Hiroki Matsukata

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Ken Takakura · Sô Yamamura · Yoshiko Sakuma