Cast: Masao Oda

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Kyôko Kagawa · Yutaka Sada · Takashi Shimura

Synopsis It is the story of Gondo, a shoe company executive (Toshirô Mifune) planning a boardroom intrigue to gain control of the company. He has raised the capital for his plan, when word comes that his son has been kidnapped for...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Akira Takarada · Daisuke Kato · Keiju Kobayashi

Synopsis Biopic about the Japanese writer Fumiko Hayashi who developed her career from scratch.

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Masayuki Mori · Daisuke Kato · Tatsuya Nakadai

Synopsis A successful but aging madam of a Tokyo hostess bar realizes that she will soon have to retire.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Takahiro Tamura · Hideko Takamine · Shogoro Ichikawa · Kichiemon Nakamura

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Katsuo Nakamura · Hiroshi Fujikawa · Minoru Chiaki

Synopsis A biographical movie about Shinran

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kyû Sakamoto · Yôko Minamida · Fujio Tokita · Fumitake Ômura

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Ineko Arima · Kuniko Miyake · Eitarô Shindô · Ushio Akashi

Direction Miyoji Ieki

Cast Tokubei Hanazawa · Haruko Hirata · Kota Hirata · Hiroshi Ikeda

Synopsis Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr Matsukuma although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and is forced to leave.

Direction Hideo Suzuki

Cast Akira Takarada · Yôko Tsukasa · Kumi Mizuno · Chisako Hara

Synopsis Story of romance and rivalry between to ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

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

Synopsis 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 Tomu Uchida

Cast Chikage Awashima · Hiromi Hanazono · Kensaku Hara · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Synopsis Kurando is a retired samurai. Granted a last-second reprieve from the obligation to commit Harakiri, he decides to settle down and marry one of two kabuki actresses who helped him enjoy what he thought would be his final days.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Teiji Takahashi · Yoshiko Kuga · Takahiro Tamura · Minoru Oki

Synopsis Suda and Sagawa are coworking friends at a steel mill. Suda is new to the plant and is starting to despair at the idea of spending the rest of his life there. Sagawa has accepted his role at the factory...

Direction Hideo Onchi

Cast Yosuke Natsuki · Yuriko Hoshi · Kô Nishimura · Masao Oda

Synopsis Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Frankie Sakai · Akira Takarada · Yuriko Hoshi · Nobuko Otowa

Synopsis This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.

Direction Jacques Deray

Cast Karlheinz Böhm · Charles Vanel · Barbara Lass · Keiko Kishi

Synopsis Van Ekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up, to get a very valuable diamond, so big it's named Titan. Riquet was to be his second-in-command, but a rival gang shoots him down before the big...

Direction Miyoji Ieki

Cast Chikage Awashima · Shûichi Ikeda · Katsuo Nakamura · Masao Oda

Synopsis The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The year is 1910 and the place is a small Japanese village. Goichi is suffering because he...

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Fujiko Yamamoto · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Michiyo Aratama · Nobuko Otowa

Synopsis A village girl lives in Tokyo as a hooker to support her ailing mother. One day she meets an allegedly unmarried teacher and falls in love.

Direction Tadashi Imai

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

Direction Hideo Ôba

Cast Yukiji Asaoka · Bokuzen Hidari · Ken Mitsuda · Kô Nishimura

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Yoshiko Kuga · Mariko Okada · Eitarô Ozawa · Michiko Araki

Synopsis The household of a wealthy family is thrown into an uproar when an elderly potato vendor suffers a stroke on their living room floor.