Cast: Mikijiro Hira

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara

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

Synopsis 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 seduces his wife and succeeds. But his wife claims she...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Kyoko Aoi · Kamatari Fujiwara · Mikijiro Hira

Synopsis Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's...

Direction Takashi Yamazaki

Cast Junichi Okada · Min Tanaka · Haruma Miura · Mao Inoue

Synopsis A young man Kentaro Saeki (Haruma Miura) keeps failing his bar test and does not know what to do any more. His older sister Keiko is a freelance writer. Kentaro and Keiko begin to search for information on their grandfather...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Mikijiro Hira · Go Kato · Shima Iwashita · Toshie Kimura

Synopsis Gennosuke, a clan retainer, kills one of the clan ministers as part of a plot to achieve reform. He is pursued by his former comrades, each hoping to complete the vendetta put on Gennosuke by the clan. With the help...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hashizo Okawa · Ryutaro Otomo · Satomi Oka · Rentarô Mikuni

Synopsis In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Takayuki Yamada · Yusuke Iseya · Goro Inagaki

Synopsis A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Miwa Takada · Eiko Taki · Kichijiro Ueda

Direction Eiichi Kudo

Cast Toru Abe · Mikijiro Hira · Yoshio Inaba · Choichiro Kawarazaki

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Mariko Okada · Junko Ikeuchi · Mayumi Ozora

Synopsis A samurai warrior is haunted by the spirit of his first wife.

Direction Rintaro Mayuzumi · Kazuyoshi Okuyama

Cast Masahiro Motoki · Naoto Takenaka · Michiko Hada · Teruyuki Kagawa

Synopsis Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Zhang Ziyi · Jô Odagiri · Hiroko Yakushimaru · Mikijiro Hira

Synopsis Amechiyo (The banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised to human). This is an Operetta which includes comedy, singing and dancing, and a love story.

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Makiko Esumi · Sayoko Yamaguchi · Hanae Kan · Masatoshi Nagase

Synopsis Long, lean, raven-haired model turned actress Makiko Esumi is Miyuki Minazuki, an assassin in black kimono and high-heel boots better known as "Stray Cat". Rated number 3 in the Assassins Guild, she's given the chance to advance up the ladder...

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Aya Ueto · Yûma Ishigaki · Chiaki Kuriyama · Shun Oguri

Synopsis Young assassins Azumi and Nagara continue their mission to prevent a civil war. In their hunt for Masayuki Sanada, who is protected by both an army and a dangerous clan, they meet Ginkaku, a person who shows a remarking resemblance...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Seishirô Katô · Takuya Mizoguchi · Takahiro Miura · Susumu Terajima

Synopsis About the adventures of Rantaro and other ninja apprentices at an elite ninjutsu academy.

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Mikijiro Hira · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Michiyo Kogure · Jûshirô Konoe

Synopsis Fifteen years after Ishida Mitsunari lost in the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu foresees his unavoidable battle with Toyotomi Hideyori and goes into Fushimi Castle. At the night, Hattori Hanzo, the leader of 36 Iga members who were performing as...

Direction Haruhiko Mimura

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Yûko Tanaka · Mikijiro Hira · Yoichi Ito

Synopsis Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held responsible. 40 years later, the...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yumiko Hasegawa · Minoru Chiaki · Mikijiro Hira

Synopsis Katsujiro the fishmonger dreams about her sister Okiku's being slained by her husband, Lord Aoyama. By the dawn he founds in the water a wallet full of gold coins.

Direction Hidenori Inoue

Cast Yûki Amami · Makoto Awane · Jun Hashimoto · Mikijiro Hira

Synopsis Soma, an immigrant from a defeated country, lives as a fortuneteller in Japan. She is saved from corrupt court officials by Kojiro Masakado, a warrior from Bando. They get swept up in a conflict between Bando and the imperial forces.

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Miyuki Kuwano · Mikijiro Hira · Keisuke Sonoi · Masuyo Iwamoto

Synopsis A woman is pushed into prostitution by her violent yakuza boyfriend.

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Yukari Uehara · Kunie Tanaka · Ichirô Nakatani