Cinematography: Setsuo Kobayashi

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Shinsuke Ashida · Yusuke Kawazu · Ranko Akagi

Plot In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Osamu Takizawa · Mickey Curtis · Mantarô Ushio

Plot It is the Philipines, 1945. The Japanese Imperial Army has been reduced to a ragtag mob hiding in the jungles. Among them is Pvt. Tamura. The situation goes from bad...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Ayako Wakao · Hideko Takamine · Misako Watanabe

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Eitarô Ozawa · Jun Negami

Plot The spirit of Resnais runs deep in this existential melodrama. A young woman on a mountaineering holiday is accused of murdering her husband. Tied to a mountain between her brutalising...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Koji Ishizaka · Kiichi Nakai · Takuzo Kawatani · Atsushi Watanabe

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Mako Midori · Noriko Sengoku

Plot A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model.

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Kyôko Kishida · Yusuke Kawazu · Eiji Funakoshi

Plot A childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model.

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Noriko Kurosawa · Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Osahide Takahashi · Kôji Moritsugu

Plot A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups. Based on a novel by Yukio Mishima.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Fujiko Yamamoto · Ayako Wakao · Eiji Funakoshi

Plot In 1836, in Tokugawa Japan, Yukinojo (Kazuo Hasegawa), a Kabuki actor specializing in female roles, arrives with his troupe in Edo. There he sets in motion a complex plot designed...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Meiko Kaji · Ryudo Uzaki · Hisashi Igawa · Sachiko Hidari

Plot "Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Takahiro Tamura · Keiko Awaji · Mikio Narita

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Michiyo Oguso · Shoichi Ozawa · Masakazu Tamura · Sachiko Murase

Plot An updated adaptation of Tanizaki's 1924 novel Naomi about a middle-aged factory engineer who trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she turns him into a slave to...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Ayako Wakao · Yasuko Sawaguchi · Koji Ishizaka

Plot Based on a centuries-old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter. Not the same as the...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Hiro Suzuki · Eiji Funakoshi · Fujiko Yamamoto · Kumeko Urabe

Plot The trials, tribulations, and joys of raising a child. The film follows the everyday events of a family with one boy, coming up to his second birthday, interspersed with occasional...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

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

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Junko Mihara · Kie Nakai · Nana Okada · Eri Ishida

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Kyôko Enami · Shiho Fujimura · Kôji Fujiyama · Kojiro Hongo

Plot A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it. A Japanese variation of the "Moby Dick" story.

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Yûnosuke Itô · Eiji Funakoshi · Tarô Marui · Hiroshi Inuzuka

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ruriko Asaoka · Koji Ishizaka · Bunta Sugawara · Kiichi Nakai

Direction Junya Sato

Cast Ken Takakura · Yoshio Harada · Ryo Ikebe · Ryoko Nakano

Plot A tough police detective is falsely accused of corruption, and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.