Cast: Reisaburo Yamamoto

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Takashi Shimura · Toshirô Mifune · Reisaburo Yamamoto · Chieko Nakakita

Plot A drunken doctor with a hot temper works in a village whose most prominent geographical feature is a disease-ridden sump. Businesses and social life are infected by the yakuza, or...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Machiko Kyô · Masayuki Mori · Yoshiko Kuga · Yuji Hori

Plot In a village not far from Tokyo, Akaza and his wife Riki worry about their childrens' future. The eldest, Inokichi, is a gambler and a womaniser. The elder of the...

Direction Sadao Yamanaka

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Kiyozo · Kunitaro Sawamura · Reisaburo Yamamoto

Plot The Yagyu family's elder son sends an old and cheap looking pot to his young brother, ignoring that the pot contains a map showing where it was hidden a treasure...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Mariko Kaga · Takashi Fujiki · Chisako Hara

Plot Muraki, a hardboiled Yakuza gangster, has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder. Revisiting his old gambling haunts, he meets Saeko, a striking young upper-class woman...

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Naoe Fushimi · Nobuko Fushimi · Reisaburo Yamamoto · Minoru Takase

Direction Teppei Yamaguchi

Cast Kaoru Akiyoshi · Kaichi Arashi · Kanjuro Arashi · Kitsuemon Arashi

Plot In the past, screenings of silent films in Japan were extremely lively events that featured various sounds. Katsudo benshi, or motion picture narrators delivered passionate and eloquent narrations. Live music...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Isuzu Yamada · Ryûzaburô Mitsuoka · Kobunji Ichikawa

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Yukiko Todoroki · Hideko Takamine · Hisako Yamane · Reisaburo Yamamoto

Direction Shôzô Makino

Cast Yotaro Katsumi · Kobunji Ichikawa · Tsuzuya Moroguchi · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Isamu Eto · Kazuo Hasegawa · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Taizô Fukami

Plot Historical war film set during Japan's sengoku ("warring states" or "civil war") period.

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Torao Aoki · Mitsuru Date · Donguriboya · Ureo Egawa

Plot The story takes place around 1902, about a young boy brought up entirely by his mother, since his drunken father is never home.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Hideko Takamine · Kazuo Hasegawa · Isuzu Yamada · Kenichi Enomoto

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Ichirô Amano · Ryonosuke Azuma · Jun Fujikawa · Seishirô Hara

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

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

Plot 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 Yasuki Chiba

Cast Yûnosuke Itô · Hajime Izu · Hyô Kitazawa · Kokuten Kôdô

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kaichi Yamamoto · Kiyoshi Sawada · Reisaburo Yamamoto · Ginko Mine

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Tomoemon Otani · Ryotaro Mizushima · Kamatari Fujiwara · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Direction Teppei Yamaguchi

Cast Kaoru Akiyoshi · Jûichirô Arashi · Kanjuro Arashi · Kitsuemon Arashi

Plot In the past, screenings of silent films in Japan were extremely lively events that featured various sounds. Katsudo benshi, or motion picture narrators delivered passionate and eloquent narrations. Live music...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Tanie Kitabayashi · Chocho Miyako · Choko Iida · Kumeko Urabe

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Isamu Kosugi · Akiko Kazami · Donguriboya · Kaichi Yamamoto

Plot The setting is that of a farming family in Ibaraki from where also the originating writers hailed. The film depicts the events of a year during the Meiji era and...