Cast: Saburo Date

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Kyôko Kagawa · Yukiko Shimazaki · Kenzo Kawarazaki · Jûkichi Uno

Plot A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled children at their own expense. Based...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Ayako Wakao · Seizaburô Kawazu · Saburo Date

Plot In the post-war Gion district of Kyoto, the geisha Miyoharu agrees to apprentice the 16 year-old Eiko, whose mother was a former geisha who had just died. After a year...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Junichiro Yamashita · Tamao Nakamura · Ganjiro Nakamura

Plot Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, a celebrated writer whose fictions also furnished plots for directors from Tadashi Imai to Masahiro Shinoda, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Go Kato · Yuko Hamada · Isao Yamagata

Plot In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to...

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Yaeko Mizutani · Masayo Banri · Eijirô Yanagi

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Shôgo Shimada · Mikiko Tsubouchi · Machiko Hasegawa

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Fumio Watanabe · Tomoko Mayama · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Plot In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin....

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Yuichi Mikami · Youki Kudoh · Tomokazu Miura · Saburo Date

Plot A class of Japanese teens experience their first feelings with the opposite sex while a typhoon storm is rising.

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

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

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Fujiko Yamamoto · Ayako Wakao · Eiji Funakoshi

Plot In 1836, in Tokugawa Japan, Yukinojo (Kazuo Hasegawa), a Kabuki actor specializing in female roles, arrives with his troupe in Edo. There he sets in motion a complex plot designed...

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 Kenji Misumi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Mikio Narita · Chizu Hayashi · Kaneko Iwasaki

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Ayako Wakao · Tamao Nakamura · Saburo Date

Plot Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke (Ichikawa Raizo) had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women,...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Shigeru Amachi · Shiho Fujimura · Mayumi Nagisa

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Miwa Takada · Yoshihiko Aoyama · Jun Fujimaki · Ryutaro Gomi

Plot A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Ayako Wakao · Machiko Kyô · Jiro Tamiya · Miwa Takada

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Jûkichi Uno · Ichiro Sugai · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Plot Yamazaki, an aspiring screenwriter, played by Jūkichi Uno, is boarding with a couple and their daughter. He and the daughter become involved romantically and the father asks him to leave,...

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Yuko Hamada · Kyooko Azuma · Saburo Date

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Katsuhiko Kobayashi · Yukio Hashi · Yôko Uraji

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Machiko Kyô · Isao Kimura · Emiko Aya

Plot Kyo Machiko and Hasegawa Kazuo star (as the respective title roles) in this exciting jidai-geki about a woman and a pirate.