Cast: Akira Ishihama

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Akira Ishihama · Shima Iwashita

Plot A ronin, a masterless samurai, requests permission to commit an honorable ritual suicide at the home of a powerful but sadistic warlord. The warlord is reluctant to permit this as...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Ineko Arima · Chikage Awashima

Plot During the Second World War, Kaji, a japanese pacifist, tries to avoid military service by accepting a job as a supervisor in the mines of Manchuria, in occupied territory. Kaji...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Tatsuya Nakadai · Keiji Sada · Nobuko Otowa

Plot Slow-paced but endowed with understanding, characters of some depth and complexity, and good direction, this slice-of-drama by Keisuke Kinoshita is taken from a bitter confection. The tale begins when Sadako...

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Yoshiko Kuga · Masayuki Mori · Tatsuo Saito · Mieko Takamine

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Shiho Fujimura · Akira Ishihama · Machiko Hasegawa · Jun Fujikawa

Plot A young apprentice and his master are looking in the mountains a very special tree to carve a statue of the goddess Kannon. After finding it, begin a very big...

Direction Keita Amemiya · Michio Konishi

Cast Shoutaira Kusaka · Hajime Izu · Shôzô Îzuka · Konomi Mashita

Plot (52 Episodes) Naoto Tamura, a new detective in Central City was killed by a Biolon agent in the line of duty. Doctor Kenzou Igarashi, a man whose experiments had been...

Direction Tetsuji Takechi

Cast Kanako Michi · Akira Ishihama · Chojuro Hanakawa · Yasuko Matsui

Plot While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office.

Direction Tetsuji Takechi

Cast Chojuro Hanakawa · Kotobuki Hananomoto · Akira Ishihama

Plot Black Snow tells the tale of a disturbed young man who, after spying on his mother with a black serviceman, finds himself unable to attain sexual arousal unless fondling a...

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Mitsuko Aoi · Tatsumi Hijikata · Akira Ishihama · Yukie Kagawa

Plot The first of three stories involves a woman forced into prostitution, the next a woman turned on by unattractive men who has threesomes with dwarves. Her admirer disfigures himself so...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Akira Ishihama · Chishu Ryu · Kuniko Miyake · Yôko Kosono

Plot The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Ineko Arima · Masahiko Tsugawa · Miyuki Kuwano · Koji Nambara

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Masahiko Tsugawa · Akira Ishihama · Ineko Arima · Keiji Sada

Plot Five young men, close friends since high school, reunite in their hometown after having been away for many years. This brief respite brings back their fond memories of earlier, simpler...

Direction Shigeyuki Yamane

Cast Hiromi Gô · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Terumi Azuma · Akira Ishihama

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Keiko Awaji · Chieko Higashiyama · Akira Ishihama

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Masayuki Mori · Setsuko Hara · Yoshiko Kuga · Tatsuya Mihashi

Plot Married for a decade, a couple have no child. He is a lawyer, however, and as a result of one of his cases has the daughter of an imprisoned man...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Keiji Sada · Teiji Takahashi · Takahiro Tamura

Plot Before heading to his new work location in Hokkaido, Keizo goes back to his hometown to visit his family. There, he meets Fuyuko, his teenage sweetheart. She has turn into...

Direction Minoru Shibuya

Cast Chishu Ryu · Akira Ishihama · Chieko Baisho · Masahiko Tsugawa

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Bin Amatsu · Keiko Awaji · Minoru Chiaki · Tatsuya Nakadai

Direction Zenzo Matsuyama

Cast Takahiro Tamura · Hideko Takamine · Tamotsu Hayakawa · Mickey Curtis

Plot In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the...

Direction Saito Kosei

Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Isao Natsuyagi · Haruko Wanibuchi · Saitô Tomoko

Plot In one of the best films of this type, famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set...