Cast: Nami Tamura

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Tatsuya Mihashi · Akira Takarada · Koshiro Matsumoto

Plot A young lord attempts to combat the official corruption endemic to the Shogunate, only to be placed in an impossible conflict of duties. He refuses to bribe a Chancelor who...

Direction François Truffaut · Renzo Rossellini · Shintaro Ishihara · Marcel Ophüls

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Marie-France Pisier · Rosy Varte · Cristina Gaioni

Plot Several internationally known directors contributed to this generally adept and compelling series of five brief vignettes on love and its many ramifications. François Truffaut starts things off with a story...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Etsushi Takahashi · Shigeru Kôyama · Akira Kubo

Plot Tatsuya Nakadai stars as Genta, a former samurai who became disillusioned with the samurai lifestyle and left it behind to become a wandering yakuza (gang) member. He meets Hanjiro Tabata...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Keiju Kobayashi · Michiyo Aratama · Yûnosuke Itô

Plot February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in...

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Reiko Dan · Noriko Shigeyama · Sonomi Nakajima · Yosuke Natsuki

Direction Masanori Kakei

Cast Mie Hama · Yuki Nakagawa · Nami Tamura · Yôko Fujiyama

Direction Jun Fukuda

Cast Makoto Satô · Ichirô Nakatani · Kumi Mizuno · Naoya Kusakawa

Plot Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosey detective suspicious.

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Shogoro Ichikawa · Hiroyuki Nagato · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Junko Ikeuchi

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Kô Nishimura · Kôzô Nomura · Chisako Hara · Makoto Satô

Plot Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza running a dope ring. Battling...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Yosuke Natsuki · Makoto Satô · Shogoro Ichikawa · Izumi Yukimura

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Eisei Amamoto · Tatsuyoshi Ehara · Akihiko Hirata · Haruya Kato

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tanie Kitabayashi · Toru Kazama · Hiroshi Nishikawa · Katsuyasu Uchida

Direction Michio Yamamoto

Cast Wakako Sakai · Katsutoshi Atarashi · Nami Tamura · Tanie Kitabayashi

Plot Yuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to move out of her apartment. As she nears rock bottom, she begins to suspect...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Yosuke Natsuki · Makoto Satô · Kumi Mizuno

Plot The 3rd and final entry of Okamoto's "Dokuritsu gurentai" trilogy of satiric WWII films