Cast: Choichiro Kawarazaki

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Choichiro Kawarazaki · Kazuo Kitamura · Yasuko Matsui

Synopsis The Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island to drill a well to provide water for the sugar mill. He is assisted on the island by Kametaro, from the inbred Futori family. Nekichi Futori is chained in a...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Sachiko Murase · Choichiro Kawarazaki · Orie Satoh

Synopsis Yoshida returned to feature filmmaking after a hiatus of thirteen years with this brave and moving film about the struggle to maintain dignity in the face of old age and approaching death. The Human Promise reaffirms Yoshida's ability to deal...

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 Akira Kurosawa

Cast Richard Gere · Hisashi Igawa · Mitsunori Isaki · Narumi Kayashima

Synopsis The final film released in the U.S. by Japanese master Akira Kurosawa looks at the atomic blast at Nagasaki from a distance of more than 40 years, through the eyes of a woman who survived it--and the grandchildren who are...

Direction Eiichi Kudo

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Kô Nishimura · Ryohei Uchida · Isao Natsuyagi

Synopsis Receiving a confidential order from the Tokugawa Shogunate, 13 Samurai Warriors start plotting the assassination of Matsudaira Nariaki, chief of the Akashi clan who is extraordinarily cruel and lewd. The group has only 60 days to achieve their goal, to...

Direction Eiichi Kudo

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

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Norihei Miki · Ken Ogata · Leonard Kuma · Mitsuko Baisho

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Rino Katase · Hidetaka Yoshioka

Synopsis Tora-san's Easy Advice is the forty-seventh entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Misako Watanabe · Wataru Ômae · Fujio Tokita

Synopsis Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield scavenging for armour when they encounter a young boy named Sasuke with magical powers he says came from...

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Ken Takakura · Wakaba Irie · Chieko Naniwa

Direction Shinsuke Ogawa

Cast Tatsumi Hijikata · Junko Miyashita · Takahiro Tamura · Shôgo Shimada

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Choichiro Kawarazaki · Toshie Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Chikako Natsumi

Synopsis Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while...

Direction Junichi Suzuki

Cast Masaya Kato · Narumi Yasuda · Tomokazu Miura · Masumi Harukawa

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Chiemi Eri · Katsuo Nakamura · Hiroko Sakuramachi

Synopsis A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. The warm friendship that grows between the carpenter.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ryôsuke Kagawa · Ryuji Kita · Sonosuke Sawamura · Haruo Tanaka

Direction Yoichi Maeda

Cast Kaori Momoi · Tsunehiko Watase · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Kirin Kiki

Direction Tadashi Imai

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

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Haruko Katô · Hideji Ôtaki · Kuniko Miyake · Choichiro Kawarazaki

Synopsis The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojo for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an...

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Yoshiko Mita · Hiroshi Mikami · Tatsuya Nakadai · Riho Makise

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Hiroki Matsukata · Michiyo Kogure · Keiko Okawa

Synopsis The protagonist Chujiro, who possesses many attractive qualities, is a victim of unkind circumstances: his mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside society. Even so, he grows up determined to reunite with...