Cinematography: Akira Takada

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

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

Plot 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...

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 Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Ichirô Araki · Koji Iwabuchi · Kazuyoshi Kushida · Hiroshi Satō

Plot A group of provincial high school students, in Tokyo for their university entrance examinations, are thoroughly disillusioned with the older generation and see no hope for the future. They respond...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Plot Author/illustrator Sanpei Shirato’s Ninja bugei-cho was a popular graphic novel serialized across Japan in the 1960s, well loved by students and leftist radicals for its tale of a young boy’s...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Yûko Tanaka · Kenji Sawada · Akira Emoto

Plot It stars Kenichi Hagiwara as a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

Direction Tetsuji Takechi

Cast Kei Sato · Kyôko Aizome · Takemi Katsushika · Saeda Kawaguchi

Plot The young woman are in a dentist's waiting room. Though he is attracted to the woman, he says nothing to her. They are later in the same examining room. When...

Direction Mitsuo Sato · Kyoichi Yamaoka

Plot Filmed at the height of Japan’s economic boom of the 1980s, Yama - Attack to Attack is an unflinching record of the struggles of unionised day-labourers in the San’ya district...