Cinematography: Motokichi Hasegawa

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Yûko Kusunoki · Etsushi Takahashi

Synopsis Erosu Purasu Gyakusatsu is the biography of early 20th-Century socialist (and eventual anarchist) rebel Sakae Osugi, and the three women in his life: Hori Yasuko, his wife; his jealous, second lover, Itsuko Masaoka, a militant feminist (a/k/a Kamichika Ichiko) and...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Yasuyo Matsumura · Akiko Kurano · Yasuo Miyake

Synopsis Ikka Kita is a revolutionary, who suffers when he is brought his younger brother's clothes, still smeared with his blood. Ikka's brother followed the revoltionary's precept and acted, attempting on the life of a financial group manager and then, unable...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Ruriko Asaoka · Ineko Arima · Kiwako Taichi

Synopsis In this intricately layered film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of...

Direction Haruo Ichikura

Cast Yoshida Eisaku · Ken Ogata · Masumi Miyazaki · Hideko Yoshida

Synopsis A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.

Direction Yasuo Baba

Cast Miho Nakayama · Yûji Oda · Tetsuya Bessho · Yuki Matsushita

Synopsis The year is 1982, and the place is Shonan in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. A group of passionate young people operates a beach radio station for the local community.

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Takuzo Kawatani · Naohiko Shigeta · Atsuko Asano · Hiromitsu Suzuki

Synopsis Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a fortyish film maniac who spends nearly all his time at the movies and a 19-year-old going...

Direction Ataru Oikawa

Cast Aya Hirayama · Aoi Miyazaki · Mikako Ichikawa · Yûma Ishigaki

Synopsis Rikako of the twelfth grade repeated play at night with her close Miki every day. One day she meets (and becomes infatuated with) Tomoaki Fujii, who's rumored to be the Don Juan of her school and even impregnated a girl...

Direction Tatsuya Ishii

Cast Tatsuya Fuji · Ryuuji Harada · Keisuke Funakoshi · Takanori Jinnai