Cast: Chisako Hara

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Ayako Wakao · Hideko Takamine · Misako Watanabe

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Masumi Harukawa · Hisashi Igawa · Saburo Ishikura

Plot The true story about a dog's loyalty to its master, even after his death.

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 Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kenzo Kawarazaki · Atsuko Kaku · Atsuo Nakamura · Akiko Koyama

Plot Oshima Nagisa's The Ceremony is a fascinating study of Japan's war and post-war period, as seen through the eyes of a young man from an influential family. The Ceremony is...

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Katsuko Wakasugi · Takashi Wada · Noriko Kitazawa · Tetsurô Tanba

Plot A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp....

Direction Akio Jissoji · Atsushi Kaneko · Hisayasu Sato · Suguru Takeuchi

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Yuko Daike · Chisako Hara · Masami Horiuchi

Plot This horror anthology takes its cue from the short fiction of writer Taro Hirai, better known by his nomme du plume Edogawa Rampo - wordplay on the name of legendary...

Direction Koreyoshi Akasaka · Teruo Ishii · Akira Mitsuwa

Cast Ken Utsui · Sachihiro Ohsawa · Utako Mitsuya · Junko Ikeuchi

Plot Benevolent aliens from the planet Emerald send superhero Starman to protect Earth from invasion by an evil alien race called the Spherions. When Starman arrives on Earth, he discovers a...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Komaki Kurihara · Yûko Kotegawa · Yoshiko Tanaka · Kumiko Ohba

Plot Story follows a group of high school girls trained as nurses during World War II who witness the horrors of war first-hand on Okinawa.

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Kingorô Yanagiya · Entatsu Yokoyama · Chieko Soma · Satsuki Arakawa

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Cast Yuji Honma · Keizo Kanie · Hideko Okiyama · Chisako Hara

Plot Yanagimachi's first feature film is about a young man who makes a map of a neighborhood in which he delivers newspapers. He keeps a dossier on each family, recording their...

Direction Koreyoshi Akasaka · Teruo Ishii · Akira Mitsuwa

Cast Ken Utsui · Minako Yamada · Junko Ikeuchi · Sachihiro Ohsawa

Plot A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind. It's up to valiant...

Direction Hiromichi Horikawa

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Chisako Hara · Tatsuyoshi Ehara · Chieko Nakakita

Plot Ishino has a pleasant life as a procurement manager in a good company, a husband with a loving wife and two kids, and a sugar daddy with a mistress. His...

Direction Hideo Suzuki

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

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

Direction Akio Jissoji

Cast Janet Hatta · Shin Kishida · Minori Terada · Chisako Hara

Plot After a number of stressful affairs, a court lady becomes a nun in order to pursue a life without desire.

Direction Koreyoshi Akasaka · Teruo Ishii · Akira Mitsuwa

Cast Ken Utsui · Junko Ikeuchi · Shôji Nakayama · Sachihiro Ohsawa

Plot Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil.

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Akira Takarada · Yûzô Kayama · Kamatari Fujiwara · Mie Hama

Direction Sôkichi Tomimoto

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura · Kô Nishimura · Eiko Nagashima

Plot Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections ensue as Tamiko is older...

Direction Hirochika Muraishi · Kyôta Kawasaki · Shingo Matsubara · Tsugumi Kitaura

Cast Hiroshi Nagano · Takami Yoshimoto · Akitoshi Ohtaki · Shigeki Kagemaru

Plot A high-tech squadron protects Earth from evil monsters and aliens with the help of a giant super-being named Ultraman Tiga.

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Yoshiko Mita · Hiroshi Mikami · Tatsuya Nakadai · Riho Makise

Direction Mitsunori Hattori · Akio Jissoji · Shusuke Kaneko · Tsugumi Kitaura

Cast Yoshihiko Hakamada · Kumiko Endô · Masao Kusakari · Kazuyuki Aijima