Cast: Keiko Tsushima

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Yoshio Inaba · Seiji Miyaguchi

Plot Set in 16th Century Japan, Akira Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai' follows the plight of a defenseless farming village that lives in constant fear of marauding bandits. The farmers know that when...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Shin Saburi · Michiyo Kogure · Koji Tsuruta · Chikage Awashima

Plot Takeo, a capricious wife from Tokyo high-society, is bored by her dull husband, a quiet and reliable company executive raised in the country (Shin Saburi) After a crisis, she understands...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Setsuko Hara · Osamu Takizawa · Masayuki Mori · Yumeko Aizome

Plot After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Eitarô Ozawa · Kenji Sugawara · Keiko Tsushima · Eijirô Tono

Direction Yasuki Chiba · Motoyoshi Oda

Cast Daisuke Kato · Keiko Tsushima · Seiji Miyaguchi · Nobuo Nakamura

Direction Tatsuo Ôsone

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

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

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Kinya Kitaoji · Keiju Kobayashi · Keiko Tsushima

Direction Hideo Suzuki

Cast Isao Kimura · Keiko Tsushima · Takashi Shimura · Sonosuke Sawamura

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Miki Fujitani · Tomorô Taguchi · Miyoko Akaza · Hitoshi Ômae

Plot People from all walks of life (a high-school student, a middle-aged businessman, a yakuza chief, etc.) all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Keiko Tsushima · Chieko Nakakita · Kyoko Aoyama

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Reiko Ohara · Masakane Yonekura

Plot In the midst of Japan's rising economy of the mid-1980s, the itinerant Tora-san becomes drunk with a hard-working company section chief. After an hour commute, the two sleep off their...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Yuriko Hanabusa · Yasumi Hara · Chieko Higashiyama · Junji Masuda

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Hiroshi Koizumi · Yumi Shirakawa · Keiko Tsushima · Toshirô Mifune

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Muga Takewaki · Jiro Tamiya · Hideki Takahashi · Tetsuya Watari

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Shûji Sano · Etsuko Miyama · Keiko Tsushima · Teiji Takahashi

Plot It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him the nickname ‘the pork cutlet prince’ from...

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Keiko Tsushima · Jun Tazaki · Chieko Higashiyama

Direction Miyoji Ieki

Cast Yasumi Hara · Mieko Ishii · Takashi Kanda · Hibari Misora

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Keiko Tsushima · Tadao Takashima · Mariko Okada

Direction Akira Kobayashi

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Masaru Matsuda · Sachiko Wakayama · Takita Sakae

Plot Island villagers find a young woman and young man swept ashore near their remote village in northeastern Japan. The two have tried to escape the girl's enforced marriage to another...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Toru Minegishi · Misa Shimizu · Manae Katsuno · Keiko Tsushima