Cast: Kei Sato

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Yôsuke Enomoto · Tatsumi Hijikata · Eiko Horii · Hideo Kanze

Plot Based on the novel by Kazumi Takahashi.Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised...

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Yukiyo Toake · Eiji Okada · Kei Sato

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Koji Takahashi · Eiji Okada · Kei Sato · Jun Hamamura

Plot Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Keiko Aikawa · Kazuko Ineno · Keizo Kanie

Plot Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer,...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Tadanori Yokoo · Rie Yokoyama · Kei Sato · Juro Kara

Plot The film centers around Birdie, a young, Japanese book thief who soon is caught by a woman named Umeko. As they become young lovers, the two begin stealing books together....

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Mariko Kaga · Yumiko Nogawa · Masako Yagi

Plot Director Nagisa Oshima's film uses the "pink" genre to mask an allegory about the materialism of post-war Japan (the original title translates as "Indulgence"). Katsuo Nakamura stars as a man...

Direction Tôya Satô

Cast Ken'ichi Matsuyama · Tatsuya Fujiwara · Yûki Amami · Teruyuki Kagawa

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hiromi Kurita · Hosei Komatsu · Akiko Koyama · Shôji Ishibashi

Plot Like many of Oshima's films, is an experimental exploration of moral corruption, partly based on a true story. Story is about a Tokyo girl looking round Okinawa island for her...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kazuhiko Kato · Norihiko Hashida · Osamu Kitayama · Kei Sato

Plot This riotous comedy (in colour and Scope) is a cocktail of dumb cops, desperate Koreans, and Japanese students who don't know what's hit them. It starts with the students taking...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Masahiko Tsugawa · Yuki Sumida · Katsuyo Asari · Jun Hamamura

Plot Noted filmmaker Kaneto Shindo directs this erotic drama adapted from the autobiographical book by renowned writer Nagai Kafu. Kafu, a noted rake and whoremonger, became one of Japan's more celebrated...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Keiko Sakurai · Kei Sato · Tetsuo Ashida · Yoshiyuki Fukuda

Plot A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in...

Direction Ryûhei Kitamura

Cast Aya Ueto · Shun Oguri · Hiroki Narimiya · Kenji Kohashi

Plot Azumi begins the film as the only girl among 10 warriors who have been trained from childhood by Jiji, a gray-bearded samurai. One day, Jiji tells them they must pass...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Akira Nitta · Shima Iwashita · Hosei Komatsu · Rentarô Mikuni

Plot A young man returns to the island where he was held prisoner as a child. He was sent to the island as a boy so he could not reveal the...

Direction Koji Hashimoto

Cast Ken Tanaka · Yasuko Sawaguchi · Keiju Kobayashi · Yosuke Natsuki

Plot From out of the South Seas comes a gigantic monster that attacks Tokyo and devastates Japan. The American version of the film added Raymond Burr as a reporter named Steve...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Shima Iwashita · Rino Katase · Kinya Kitaoji · Masao Kusakari

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Mako Midori · Kei Sato · Isao Kuraishi

Direction Chusei Sone

Cast Emi Yokoyama · Kaoru Janbo · Kei Sato · Shin Kishida

Plot Mika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous “Gator Branch.” When an executive board member of a trading company is accused of being involved in a bribery,...

Direction Hiroshi Okamoto · Sôkichi Tomimoto

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

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Tsunehiko Watase · Mayumi Nagisa · Tatsuo Umemiya

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Misako Watanabe · Wataru Ômae · Fujio Tokita

Plot Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield scavenging for armour when they encounter a young...