Cast: Kinzô Sakura

Direction Jūzō Itami

Cast Tsutomu Yamazaki · Nobuko Miyamoto · Ken Watanabe · Kôji Yakusho

Synopsis In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro who rides into town like a modern Shane to help Tampopo set up the perfect fast-food noodle restaurant. Woven into this main story are...

Direction Jūzō Itami

Cast Nobuko Miyamoto · Rentarô Mikuni · Masahiko Tsugawa · Kôichi Ueda

Direction Yoshihiro Nakamura

Cast Gaku Hamada · Fumino Kimura · Nao Omori · Eri Ishida

Synopsis Set in Sendai, Japan, 2 men live completely different lives. One is a star professional baseball player and the other burglarizes empty homes. Their fate connects with unseeable connections when Tadashi Imamura (Gaku Hamada) and a suicidal woman enter the...

Direction Tôru Kawashima

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Kyôhei Shibata · Michiko Kawai · Norihei Miki

Synopsis Young writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing the head yakuza, must find a way out of trouble.

Direction Akiyoshi Kimata

Cast Takanori Jinnai · Yumi Asou · Hideo Murota · Shirô Itô

Synopsis Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and Ryo decides to train to become a yakuza under him.

Direction Tôru Kawashima

Cast Shôji Kaneko · Eiko Nagashima · Koji Kita · Kinzô Sakura

Synopsis This is an excellent piece of cinema, about life of yakuza (gangster) and his family. Ryuji tries to quit yakuza and spend a decent life with his wife Mariko and daughter Aya...but as he's used to getting easy money, it'd...