Cinematography: Masao Tochizawa

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Ken Ogata · Sumiko Sakamoto · Tonpei Hidari · Aki Takejô

Synopsis A fusion of Japanese Kabuki and modern film techniques, this adaptation of Shichiro Fukazawa's 1956 novel depicts the moving tale of a 69-year-old woman's traditional journey from her poor village to the summit of Mount Narayama to die. 1983's THE...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Choichiro Kawarazaki · Kazuo Kitamura · Yasuko Matsui

Synopsis The Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island to drill a well to provide water for the sugar mill. He is assisted on the island by Kametaro, from the inbred Futori family. Nekichi Futori is chained in a...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Norihei Miki · Ken Ogata · Leonard Kuma · Mitsuko Baisho

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Kumiko Akiyoshi · Eiji Okuda · Hisashi Igawa · Kyôko Kagawa

Synopsis Three Japanese pilgrims arrive in India. Miss Naruse is looking for Otsu, a Catholic priest, her lover ten years before; after time in France and Israel, he has come to Benares where he carries the bodies of the poor to...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Kurahachi Fukuda · Tora Hirano · Shôhei Imamura · Shôhei Nagao

Synopsis Documentary - (The interviewer is an Asian male director, Shohei Imamura.) Interview with Kikuyo Zendo, a 73 year-old, Japanese, trafficked-in-1921, prostitute (karayuki-san) who spent the longer part of her life outside Japan in Malaysia. She discusses her sex work career...

Direction Taku Shinjo

Cast Masanori Sera · Yukie Suzuki · Saori Iwama · Yumiko Itaya

Synopsis Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Eiji Okuda · Ken Watanabe · Takahiro Tamura · Kyôko Kishida

Synopsis Downed American fliers in World War II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Synopsis The star of this documentary is a quintessential Imamura heroine: a hard-nosed, ruthless survivor, with a sense of loyalty and an earthy sense of humor. In this movie, she sits in a Tokyo bar, which she used to own, and...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Eiji Okada

Synopsis The story of a family of foxes struggling to survive in the hostile environment of northern Japan.

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Eiji Okuda · Toshirô Mifune · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Go Kato

Synopsis Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death. Years before: Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter,...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Hisashi Igawa · Satoko Iwasaki · Taketoshi Naitô

Synopsis The island of Hokkaido, in Japan, is located near the Arctic Circle and is famous for its cold, snowy winters. In this understated drama, a celebrated writer is being shown some caves, which have glow-in-the-dark moss, by the local school...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Synopsis By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under the control of cruel & armed pirates. Imamura will come to meet those men in order...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Fujiko Fujita · Yoshio Ukiie · Matsuyoshi Fujita · Michiko Hamaguchi

Synopsis Television documentary featuring interviews with Japanese soldiers after the Second World War.

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Eiji Okada

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Eiji Okuda · Keiko Kishi · Kyôko Kagawa · Mieko Harada

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Miki Sakai · Atsuro Watabe · Jô Shishido · Masumi Okada

Synopsis Two young people meet by chance and fall in love but the woman is diagnosed with leprosy and sent away to a remote mountain sanitorium.