Cast: Kei Sato

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

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

Synopsis Harakiri (1962) follows Tsugumo Hanshirō, a destitute rōnin, who arrives at the estate of the Iyi clan requesting to commit ritual suicide (seppuku) in their courtyard. As the clan prepares for the ceremony, they recount a similar incident involving another...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Kei Sato · Minoru Chiaki

Synopsis Second World War. Forced to join the japanese army, Kaji is sent to Manchuria. There, he becomes friends with a soldier who sympathizes with communism. After a visit from his wife, Kaji is sent to the battlefield, from which many...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Katsuo Nakamura · Kei Sato

Synopsis This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her. "The...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Jitsuko Yoshimura · Kei Sato · Taiji Tonoyama

Synopsis After enlisting as a volunteer in a war in 14th century Japan, his wife and mother remain living in a swamp. They eke out their living by ambushing worn-out warriors, killing them and selling their belongings to a greedy merchant....

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Kichiemon Nakamura · Nobuko Otowa · Kiwako Taichi · Kei Sato

Synopsis A woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Taiji Tonoyama · Nobuko Otowa · Kei Sato · Kei Yamamoto

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yoshiko Mita · Masayuki Mori · Kyôko Kishida

Synopsis Episodic chronicle of one family's lineage and how it has been affected by the strict code of deference to the feudal lords.

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Yûzô Kayama · Michiyo Aratama · Toshirô Mifune

Synopsis Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai without compassion or scruples. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade. Ryunosuke accepts...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Haruko Sugimura · Takeshi Katô · Taiji Tonoyama

Synopsis Tamiko is a single mother. Her son Toshio is going blind. He is diagnosed with a brain tumour. She does not have the money for surgery and asks her mother Yoshie for it. Yoshie refuses but arranges a marriage with...

Direction Toshio Masuda · Hajime Takaiwa

Cast Atsuo Nakamura · Sanae Tsuchida · Kei Sato · Isamu Nagato

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hashizo Okawa · Ryutaro Otomo · Satomi Oka · Rentarô Mikuni

Synopsis In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kei Sato · Fumio Watanabe · Toshirô Ishidô · Masao Adachi

Synopsis A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Tatsuya Nakadai · Shin Kishida · Yôsuke Kondô

Synopsis The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers to), the head-quarters of a group of...

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Shigeru Amachi · Jun Hamamura · Gen Kimura

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Akio Hasegawa · Gaku Yamamoto · Kei Sato

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Daijirô Harada · Nobuko Otowa · Keiko Torii · Kiwako Taichi

Synopsis Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

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

Synopsis 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 known to be Oshima's most autobiographical work, as he was...

Direction Eiichi Kudo

Cast Junko Miyazono · Koji Nambara · Isao Natsuyagi · Kô Nishimura

Synopsis It is the early 19th century in Japan. Nariatsu, a high ranking official and son of the former Shogun, is engaged in an animal hunt. In his reckless pursuit of the game, he crosses borders to a neighboring fief and...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Miyuki Kuwano · Fumio Watanabe · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Shinko Ujiie

Synopsis One of Oshima's most ingenious and radical films uses the wedding celebration of two young activists as the backdrop for a series of political confrontations shot with a dazzling theatricality, combing flashbacks, off-screen scenarios, black-outs, and balletic tracking shots.

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hideo Kanze · Hideko Kawaguchi · Saeda Kawaguchi · Narumi Kayashima

Synopsis A new study by Oshima of the sexuality and violence that mark Japanese society: the portrayal of a rapist and killer of women constructed thanks to the memories of his wife and one of his victims. One of the director’s...