Cast: Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Masumi Harukawa · Kô Nishimura · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi · Yûko Kusunoki

Plot The film tells the story of a dull, plump housewife living in poverty with a common-law husband, his son by another woman, and his mother. When she is raped by...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Shinsuke Ashida · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi · Tamotsu Hayakawa

Plot Eight years into her marriage, Miyako looks happy on the outside, but in fact she is not satisfied with her husband, Yuzo, who cares about nothing but his career. Miyako...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Emiko Aizawa · Masumi Harukawa · Sachiko Hidari · Daizaburo Hirata

Plot Tome was born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. She is molested from childhood by her stepfather. As a young adult she moves from her rural village...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Yoshie Hayakawa · Shôhei Imamura · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Plot Ostensibly Imamura's first work in documentary features, A Man Vanishes is much more, heralding the future work of Kazuo Hara and Werner Herzog, amongst others, in the genre-defying mix of...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Fumio Watanabe · Tomoko Mayama · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Plot In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin....

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Shigeru Izumiya · Kaori Momoi · Ken Ogata · Masao Kusakari

Direction Masanori Hata

Cast Shigeru Tsuyuguchi · Kyôko Koizumi · Milo · Otis

Plot Milo is a kitten, Otis is a dog. When Milo gets into a small box with the intention of taking a trip down a river, Otis follows. En route, the...

Direction Buichi Saito

Cast Chieko Matsubara · Tetsuya Watari · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi · Hiroko Ogi

Plot At the end of the Meiji era, when the new criminal law was enacted, Masaru Asakusa, a former Masaruro Bashigo, declined to retire on this occasion and decided to announce...

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi · Shoichi Ozawa · Norihei Miki

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Michiyo Oguso · Shintarô Katsu · Kô Nishimura · Yaeko Mizutani

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Chieko Baisho · Osamu Takizawa · Michiyo Aratama · Yusuke Kawazu

Plot Kiriko attempts to hire a well-known lawyer to defend her brother's murder case. The lawyer turns Kiriko down as she cannot afford him. Some time later, Kiriko encounters the lawyer...

Direction Buichi Saito

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Yûko Asano · Katsuyo Asari · Shinsuke Ashida

Plot It is an autobiographical story, covering half-life of Kumago Matsuzaka modeled after novelist Miyamoto Teru's father.

Direction Shinichirô Sawai

Cast Kumiko Goto · Tôru Nakamura · Tomomi Satô · Ken Ogata

Plot University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has leukaemia and has only 6...