Cast: Kyôko Kishida

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Yusuke Kawazu · Tamao Nakamura

Plot The protagonist is the pacifistic Kaji. Strong-armed into the Japanese military during World War II, Kaji has reluctantly learned to kill on the battlefields. Upon his country's surrender, Kaji and...

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast Eiji Okada · Kyôko Kishida · Hiroko Ito · Hideo Kanze

Plot An entomologist looking for insects in the desert accepts locals' offer to stay with a widow whose house is at the bottom of a sandpit, accessible only by a rope...

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Machiko Kyô · Mikijiro Hira · Kyôko Kishida

Plot A businessman facially scarred in a laboratory fire receives psychotherapy from a psychiatrist, and obtains an amazingly lifelike mask from the doctor. Soon after being fitted for the mask, he...

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 Kazuo Inoue

Cast Ineko Arima · Chikage Awashima · Shôhei Imamura · Tatsuya Jô

Plot A documentary by Kazuo Inoue about the life and career of Yasujiro Ozu, which involved his assistant Shohei Imamura (director of The Pornographers and The Eel), critics Donald Richie and...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Takashi Fujiki · Mariko Kaga · Kyôko Kishida · Tamotsu Hayakawa

Plot In Shinoda’s look at codes of obligation, a union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was responsible...

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Yoshiko Mita · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Kyôko Kishida

Plot Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan's most powerful warlord,...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Jiro Tamiya · Keizo Kawasaki · Kyôko Kishida

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Hiroyuki Nagato · Eiji Funakoshi · Rentarô Mikuni

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Kyôko Kishida · Yusuke Kawazu · Eiji Funakoshi

Plot A childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Keiko Kishi · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Kinuyo Tanaka · Masayuki Mori

Plot "Her Brother" is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, where it won a prize for Special Distinction. In...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Shiho Fujimura · Saburo Date · Katsuhiko Kobayashi

Plot As nefarious warlord Oda Nobunaga continues his quest to conquer all of Japan, a powerful young ninja becomes ensnared in a plot to kill the powerful ruler in this period...

Direction Haruki Kadokawa

Cast Takaaki Enoki · Masahiko Tsugawa · Atsuko Asano · Naomi Zaizen

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Yûko Asano · Kiichi Nakai · Hisashi Igawa · Koji Ishizaka

Plot Set in the 16th century, an ambitious young samurai is adopted into a noble household, thereby attaining the necessary status to marry the daughter of the castle warden. Plans for...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Atsuo Nakamura · Kiichi Nakai · Ryuuji Harada · Tsuyoshi Ujiki

Plot The Shinsengumi was a self-appointed law-enforcing militia loyal to the Tokugawa shogunate that emerged in Kyoto during the Bakumatsu era of the 1860s. At its peak numbering around 300 members,...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Hiro Suzuki · Eiji Funakoshi · Fujiko Yamamoto · Kumeko Urabe

Plot The trials, tribulations, and joys of raising a child. The film follows the everyday events of a family with one boy, coming up to his second birthday, interspersed with occasional...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Hideki Noda · Takuzo Kawatani · Kirin Kiki

Plot Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju sand says she will become his wife...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ruriko Asaoka · Koji Ishizaka · Bunta Sugawara · Kiichi Nakai

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Tatsuya Nakadai · Fujiko Yamamoto · Chikage Awashima

Plot Adapted from Naoya Shiga's novel about the emotional turmoil of a man who suspects that his wife is committing adultery with his father.

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Eiji Okuda · Ken Watanabe · Takahiro Tamura · Kyôko Kishida

Plot Downed American fliers in World War II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.