Cast: Daisuke Ryû

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Akira Terao · Jinpachi Nezu · Pîtâ

Plot A reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that he's about to divide his kingdom equally among his three...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Kenichi Hagiwara · Daisuke Ryû

Plot In 16th century Japan, Shingen, a powerful warlord, has become as legendary as the motto emblazoned on his war banners: "Swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as...

Direction Takashi Koizumi

Cast Akira Terao · Yoshiko Miyazaki · Shiro Mifune · Fumi Dan

Plot Ihei Misawa and his wife Tayo, stranded by rains at a country inn, bring a great deal of happiness to the other residents of the inn by means of Ihei's...

Direction Yoichi Sai

Cast Ken'ichi Matsuyama · Koyuki · Suzuka Ohgo · Ekin Cheng

Plot An adaptation of manga series The Legend of Kamui (1964-71). An orphan cast out of his village, Kamui (Matsuyama Kenichi, Death Note) joined a ninja clan at a young age...

Direction Tamasaburo Bando

Cast Tamasaburo Bando · Sadanji Ichikawa IV · Yoshie Minami · Rie Miyazawa

Plot A young samurai dares to approach a castle mistress as he searches for an escaped falcon, a crime punishable by death, but escapes with his life. He is forced to...

Direction Tetsutaro Murano

Cast Kyôko Enami · Shiho Fujimura · Yoko Hara · Kimihiro Reizei

Plot Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous for the legend of...

Direction Hajime Hashimoto

Cast Katsunori Takahashi · Ken Watanabe · Nenji Kobayashi · Renji Ishibashi

Direction Kazuki Omori

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Ken Ogata · Yûko Kotegawa · Tatsuo Umemiya

Plot A stockbroker turned yakuza has been ordered to ask the boss of another yakuza outfit to be the substitute emcee of a succession ceremony - the passing of the baton...

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Masatoshi Nagase · Daisuke Ryû · Masakatsu Funaki

Plot Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and ultimately broken by the attacks...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Shima Iwashita · Koichi Sato · Ai Saotome

Plot Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build...

Direction Anthony Garner · Morimasa Matsumoto

Cast Samantha Bond · Daisuke Ryû · Fumi Dan · Joanna McCallum

Plot TV Mini-Series 4 episodes. In 1903, a young Scotswoman goes to join her diplomat fiancé in Manchuria. She marries him, and finds herself in a war zone. Disenchanted with her...

Direction Toshiharu Ikeda

Cast Kaori Sakagami · Daisuke Ryû · Kei Marimura · Ryûji Katagiri

Plot 4th Entry in a Four-Part-Series, following the success of the original XX-series with 7 parts: In this one Yoko is an undercover cop infiltrating the chinese mafia.

Direction Izuru Narushima

Cast Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Akira Emoto · Yui Natsukawa · Kimiko Yo

Plot Surgeon Touma (Shin'ichi Tsutsumi) became a doctor after losing his mother at a young age due to a faulty diagnosis. Now working at at a local hospital in 1989, Touma...

Direction Kazuya Konaka

Cast Tetsuya Bessho · Kyôko Toyama · Kenya Osumi · Nae

Plot First Lieutenant Shun'ichi Maki of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force is a prestigious F-15 Eagle jet pilot (or "driver" as he is called in the film). A lifelong fan of...

Direction Kazuo Takahashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Etsuko Shihomi · Morio Kazama · Jun Etô

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Hiroshi Sakuma · Yôko Minamino · Kirin Kiki

Direction Shinobu Hashimoto

Cast Reiko Nanjo · Daisuke Ryû · Kinya Kitaoji · Hatsunori Hasegawa

Plot A woman works as a prostitute and attendant to make a living at a bathhouse. She is athletic and is an avid runner. She has met and adopted a white...

Direction Toshio Lee

Cast Hiroshi Tamaki · Satomi Ishihara · Yûdai Chiba · Akira Emoto

Plot In 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in Edo. Katsu Kaishu (Hiroshi Tamaki) wants to avoid useless bloodshed and sends a...