Cast: Takamaru Sasaki

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Isuzu Yamada · Takashi Shimura · Akira Kubo

Synopsis 'Macbeth' is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan. Taketoki Washizu (Toshiro Mifune) is a valiant warrior whose life is transformed by an encounter with a ghostly female spirit. The spirit offers several predictions, finally stating that Washizu will rise...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Yûzô Kayama · Michiyo Aratama · Toshirô Mifune

Synopsis Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai without compassion or scruples. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade. Ryunosuke accepts...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Koji Tsuruta · Kaoru Yachigusa · Mariko Okada

Synopsis A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo...

Direction Takashi Nomura

Cast Jô Shishido · Chitose Kobayashi · Jerry Fujio · Shôki Fukae

Synopsis A crafty hitman and his cunning sidekick attempt a daring escape after carrying out a high-profile contract and incurring the wrath of a vicious gang.

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 Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Keiji Sada · Minoru Oki · Keiko Kishi · Yûnosuke Itô

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Wang Yu · Watako Hamaki · Michie Terada

Direction Seiichiro Uchikawa

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Eiji Okada · Takashi Shimura

Synopsis Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Nobuko Otowa · Makoto Satô · Ryo Tamura

Synopsis Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to recruit him to fight in a conflict...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Nick Adams · Akira Takarada · Jun Tazaki · Akira Kubo

Synopsis Aliens from Planet X request the use of Godzilla and Rodan to fight off King Ghidorah, but have a better use for the three monsters.

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

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

Direction Jun Fukuda

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Yumi Shirakawa · Seizaburô Kawazu · Yoshio Tsuchiya

Synopsis Detectives must stop a homicidal madman called the "Telegian" from his killing rampage, while trying to save the intended victims and solve the mystery of the madman's true intentions and origin. The Telegian uses a mind-transmitting machine to teleport himself...

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Hiroshi Koizumi · Keiko Awaji · Chikage Ogi · Takashi Shimura

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Kotaro Satomi · Satomi Oka · Masao Mishima · Takamaru Sasaki

Direction Tsuneo Kobayashi

Cast Jun Usami · Takamaru Sasaki · Rin'ichi Yamamoto · Mitsue Komiya

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Kyoko Aoyama · Raizô Ichikawa · Atsuko Kindaichi · Hideo Takamatsu

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi · Masao Shimizu · Eijirô Yanagi

Synopsis Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but overruled, leads his forces...

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Tsuneo Aoki · Tatsuya Fuji · Rika Fujie · Keiko Hara

Synopsis Yasuharu Hasebe directed this fiercely kinetic tale of wannabe yakuza youths (Akira Kobayashi, Tatsuya Fuji, et al.). When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Kobayashi develops a crush on Fuji’s disgusted sister, Masako Izumi. But soon the young hoods...

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Shima Iwashita · Eiji Okada · Takamaru Sasaki

Synopsis Story of a famous Japanese sculptor, Kotaro Takamura and his wife, Cheiko. Film is about Kotaro's affection for his wife after she becomes insane and the poems he writes and collects.

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Shiho Fujimura · Yûko Kusunoki · Takahiro Tamura