Cinematography: Yukio Isohata

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Atsuo Nakamura · Kiichi Nakai · Ryuuji Harada · Tsuyoshi Ujiki

Plot The Shinsengumi was a self-appointed law-enforcing militia loyal to the Tokugawa shogunate that emerged in Kyoto during the Bakumatsu era of the 1860s. At its peak numbering around 300 members,...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Hideki Noda · Takuzo Kawatani · Kirin Kiki

Plot Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju sand says she will become his wife...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Yuki Saito · Takaaki Enoki · Mai Okamoto · Leonard Kuma

Plot This dazzling portrait of an orphaned girl at several stages of her life, from childhood to adulthood, opens with one of the most famous long takes in Japanese cinema, a...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Takaaki Enoki · Koji Ishizaka · Keiko Kishi · Shirô Itô

Plot The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater, his granddaughter or grandson.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Koji Ishizaka · Nanako Matsushima · Kikunosuke Onoe · Keiko Matsuzaka

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Etsushi Toyokawa · Yûko Asano · Yu Ji Chin Ye · Hisashi Igawa

Plot A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later. Despite the Asian setting, it has a sort of strong sense...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Mitsuko Mori · Bunta Sugawara · Koji Ishizaka

Plot The Japanese actress and film director Kinuyo Tanaka had a career as significant to that country's movie industry as Lillian Gish's was in the U.S. -- it spanned the early...

Direction Yoshitaka Amano · Kon Ichikawa · Akio Jissoji · Masaaki Kawahara

Cast Kyôko Koizumi · Suzuki Matsuo · Tsuyoshi Ujiki · Umenosuke Nakamura

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Keiko Kishi · Ryuuji Harada · Shoichi Ozawa · Kanae Katsuno

Plot A strong-willed matriarch (Keiko Kishi) struggles to keep her brood of five -- including three grown sons and a pretty, marriageable daughter -- on the road to financial survival, if...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Koji Ishizaka · Reiko Ohara · Michi Kagawa

Plot Does tomorrow with that woman (human) ...... Ichikawa Kunlun × Yoshinaga Sayuri draws, the world of eroticism! The classic masterpieces of Showa literature held in love and passion and Uno's...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ruriko Asaoka · Hisashi Igawa · Renji Ishibashi · Saburo Ishikura

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Yûko Asano · Bunta Sugawara · Ryudo Uzaki

Plot Samurai Koheita Mochizuki, who goes by the nickname Dora-Heita, meaning "alley cat" or "playboy," pretends to be an alcoholic magistrate but is in actuality an envoy from the daimyo sent...