Cast: Etsuko Ichihara

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yôko Tsukasa · Go Kato · Tatsuya Nakadai

Synopsis In 1725, during a peaceful period in Japan, Isaburo, a veteran samurai, lives placidly with his wife and his son. One day, his honor and moral principles will be at odds with his clan's. The conflict is inevitable and it...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Yoshiko Tanaka · Kazuo Kitamura · Etsuko Ichihara · Shoichi Ozawa

Synopsis The title refers to the radioactive fallout which descended upon ruined city of Hiroshima after the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Young bride-to-be Yoshiko Tanaka has the misfortune to be visiting Hiroshima on the day of the explosion. Incredibly,...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Misa Shimizu · Mitsuko Baisho · Akira Emoto

Synopsis The film opens with Takuro Yamashita (Koji Yakusho), a seemingly normal salaryman, learning that his wife might be having an affair. When he catches the couple in flaganto delicto, he freaks out and brutally stabs them both to death. Eight...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

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

Direction Naomi Kawase

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Kirin Kiki · Miyoko Asada · Etsuko Ichihara

Synopsis The "manager" of a pancake stall finds himself confronted with an odd but sympathetic elderly lady looking for work. A taste of her home-made bean jelly convinces him, starting a relationship that is about much more than just street food.

Direction Kazuhiko Hasegawa

Cast Yutaka Mizutani · Mieko Harada · Etsuko Ichihara · Ryohei Uchida

Synopsis One morning Jun Saiki gets in an argument with his disapproving father over his girlfriend. In the heat of the moment he ends up murdering his father. When he decides to turn himself in to the police his mother stops...

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Etsuko Ichihara · Osamu Okawa · Kiyoshi Atsumi

Synopsis A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Machiko Kyô · Keiji Sada · Miyuki Kuwano · Junko Ikeuchi

Direction Hiroshi Okamoto · Sôkichi Tomimoto

Cast Etsuko Ichihara · Akiko Nomura · Tokie Kanda · Yoshiko Miyazaki

Direction Masanobu Deme

Cast Ken Matsudaira · Bruno Ganz · Hiroshi Abe · Jun Kunimura

Synopsis German soldiers are transported to a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan after the First World War.

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Chikage Awashima · Ayako Wakao · Ryo Ikebe · Takashi Shimura

Synopsis A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Yutaka Mizutani · Toshiyuki Nagashima · Rie Nakahara · Etsuko Ichihara

Synopsis The plot of "Lonely Heart" concerns a gunman who murders all the occupants of a bookstore. But this quickly becomes the story of the policemen who investigate the crime. One of them was engaged to one of the victims and...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Eijirô Tono · Sachiko Hidari · Nobuko Otowa

Direction Sadao Nakajima

Cast Mariko Okada · Yûko Natori · Morio Kazama · Kei Sato

Synopsis Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school.

Direction Tengo Yamada

Cast Kazuhide Haruta · Etsuko Ichihara · Shôji Ishibashi · Mariko Miyagi

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Tatsuya Nakadai · Fujiko Yamamoto · Chikage Awashima

Synopsis Adapted from Naoya Shiga's novel about the emotional turmoil of a man who suspects that his wife is committing adultery with his father.

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Yoshie Ichige · Pinko Izumi · Shingo Tsurumi

Synopsis Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One New Year's day, a haggard-looking mother and her two adorable moppets...

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Jiro Tamiya · Etsuko Ichihara · Takuya Fujioka

Direction Shinji Azuma

Cast Kazuyuki Aijima · Mina Fujii · Kento Hayashi · Etsuko Ichihara

Synopsis Izumi is an urchin who was set adrift by his parents. He is a thug, a thief and a predator. On the run from the cops he takes to the mountains of Miyazaki in southern Japan where he happens to...

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Yoshio Harada · Atsuo Nakamura · Kayo Matsuo · Sanae Kitabayashi

Synopsis Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi pursues his father's craft....