Cast: Masao Mishima

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Akira Ishihama · Shima Iwashita

Synopsis Harakiri (1962) follows Tsugumo Hanshirō, a destitute rōnin, who arrives at the estate of the Iyi clan requesting to commit ritual suicide (seppuku) in their courtyard. As the clan prepares for the ceremony, they recount a similar incident involving another...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Ineko Arima · Chikage Awashima

Synopsis During the Second World War, Kaji, a japanese pacifist, tries to avoid military service by accepting a job as a supervisor in the mines of Manchuria, in occupied territory. Kaji tries to improve the conditions of the workers but he...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Setsuko Hara · Chishu Ryu · Hohi Aoki · Masao Mishima

Synopsis A widower who lives with his daughter wants her to get married, but she doesn't want to leave him alone. He will pretend that he is about to marry in order to convince her that she won't fit at home...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Tsukie Matsuura · Ichiro Sugai · Toshirô Mifune

Synopsis It tells the story of Oharu, a 50-year-old woman who suffers the strict conventions of 17th century Feudal Japan. She becomes the lover of a man, but when they are discovered, Oharu and her family are obliged to live in...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Keiko Enonami · Kyôko Kagawa · Akihiko Katayama · Daisuke Kato

Synopsis A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Direction Hideo Sekigawa

Cast Takashi Kanda · Masao Mishima · Eiji Okada · Isuzu Yamada

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Tatsuya Nakadai · Shin Kishida · Yôsuke Kondô

Synopsis The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers to), the head-quarters of a group of...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Ranko Hanai · Yuji Hori · Kyôko Kagawa

Synopsis This is a gentle, affectionate take on a middle aged bar hostess, struggling to bring up a child alone and facing financial, sexual and end of career issues, as well as the implied disapproval of society. There is plenty of...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Hizuru Takachiho · Masahiko Tsugawa · Yusuke Kawazu · Shoji Yasui

Synopsis Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothings" from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father....

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Michiyo Oguso · Kunie Tanaka · Hisashi Igawa

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Isao Kimura · Minoru Chiaki · Shinobu Chihara · Kogiku Hanayagi

Synopsis Jiro Sano (Chiezo Kataoka) grew up a good man, financially well set, & loved by his company's employees. But he has remained unable to find a wife, due to his facial discoloration. He sets off for Edo for a matchmaking...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Jitsuko Yoshimura · Yôko Minamida · Masao Mishima · Hiroyuki Nagato

Synopsis Teen hoodlum Kinta is excited to be given the plum job of supervising the pig pen at the local US base, for which he'll be responsible diverting the food scraps to the black market, and scoring a good income for...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Noboru Kiritachi · Ranko Edogawa · Hideo Saeki · Yuriko Hanabusa

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sachiko Chiba · Ranko Akagi · Heihachiro Okawa · Ko Mihashi

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 Kaneto Shindô

Cast Jûkichi Uno · Nobuko Otowa · Harold Conway · Masao Mishima

Synopsis Daigo Fukuryū Maru (第五福龍丸?, Lucky Dragon 5) was a Japanese tuna fishing boat, which was exposed to and contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States’ Castle Bravo thermonuclear device test on Bikini Atoll, on March 1, 1954. Kuboyama Aikichi,...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sachiko Chiba · Kamatari Fujiwara · Kimba Sanyutei · Haruko Toda

Direction Tatsuo Ôsone

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Masao Mishima · Keiko Tsushima · Isuzu Yamada

Synopsis A gallant swordsman takes on the forces of evil with the help of his trusty friends.

Direction Seiji Hisamatsu

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Yôko Sugi · Kyôko Kagawa · Hisao Toake

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Ryôsuke Kagawa · Masao Mishima · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Tomisaburô Wakayama