Cast: Kyôko Kishida

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Shima Iwashita · Chieko Baisho · Mikijiro Hira · Noboru Nakaya

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Osamu Takizawa · Shinsuke Ashida · Hideki Takahashi · Etsushi Takahashi

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 Keigo Kimura

Cast Hiroshi Akutagawa · Kakuko Chino · Natsuko Kahara · Kyôko Kishida

Plot A woman's husband died that summer. She is well off and lives in a villa with her servant. The two reminisce about their younger years. The woman's older brother died...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Takaaki Enoki · Koji Ishizaka · Keiko Kishi · Shirô Itô

Plot The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater, his granddaughter or grandson.

Direction Sadao Nakajima

Cast Shin Saburi · Toshirô Mifune · Hiroki Matsukata · Bunta Sugawara

Plot The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan. One of Mifune's very few yakuza...

Direction Tadashi Imai

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

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Kyôko Enami · Kyôko Kishida · Mayumi Kurata · Tanie Kitabayashi

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Minoru Chiaki · Kyôko Kishida · Kotaro Satomi · Isao Yamagata

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Tatsuya Nakadai · Kyoka Suzuki · Takehiro Murata

Plot This is the final movie from Okamoto Kihachi, the filmmaker who directed such great movies as “Sword Of Doom”, “Kill”, and “Red Lion”. With an equal mix of violence and...

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Yasuo Tanabe · Kaoru Yachigusa · Kyôko Kishida

Direction Minoru Shibuya

Cast Isuzu Yamada · Mariko Okada · Eijirô Tono · Yûnosuke Itô

Plot A black comedy in which Shibuya casts a withering glance on human greed and selfishness. Yashiro is a rich, old and grumpy man who lives with his mistress, an erstwhile...

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 Keigo Kimura

Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Kyôko Kishida · Ayako Wakao · Keiji Aoyama

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Makoto Fujita · Hiroaki Murakami · Kazuko Kato · Ken Nishida

Plot Following the local magistrate's death during a bloody massacre, a new maverick magistrate rides into town, and soon ends up toe-to-toe with the local law enforcement.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Etsushi Toyokawa · Yûko Asano · Yu Ji Chin Ye · Hisashi Igawa

Plot A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later. Despite the Asian setting, it has a sort of strong sense...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Junko Ikeuchi · Noboru Nakaya · Nobuko Otowa

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Kyôko Kishida · Eitarô Ozawa · Nobuko Otowa · Isao Kimura

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Morio Kazama · Kayoko Kishimoto · Haruko Katô · Kyôko Kishida

Direction Ann Hui

Cast Andy Lau · Cherie Chung · Jun'ichi Ishida · Tou Chung-hua

Plot Ben, a Chinese student in Japan, falls for Meng and agrees to help her deliver a tape containing information that could start a war between the yakuza families.

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Fujiko Yamamoto · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Michiyo Aratama · Nobuko Otowa

Plot A village girl lives in Tokyo as a hooker to support her ailing mother. One day she meets an allegedly unmarried teacher and falls in love.