Cinematography: Kôzô Okazaki

Direction Paulo Rocha

Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Clara Joana · Zita Duarte · Jorge Silva Melo

Plot The film tells in a very poetic way the life of Wenceslau de Moraes, an officer of the Portuguese Marine Corps who traveled to Japan and fell in love of...

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Robert Mitchum · Ken Takakura · Brian Keith · Herb Edelman

Plot Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Tetsurô Tanba · Yôko Tsukasa

Plot A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Tatsuya Nakadai · Shin Kishida · Yôsuke Kondô

Plot The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Shin Saburi · Mayumi Ogawa · Keiko Kishi · Komaki Kurihara

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Go Kato · Yukiyo Toake · Chikage Awashima · Masatomo Nakabayashi

Plot Based on an originally banned book by the surgeon Takashi Nagai, who died of radiation sickness in 1951 after witnessing the bomb blast in Nagasaki, this film is told from...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Noboru Andô · Tetsurô Tanba · Kyôko Enami

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Shima Iwashita · Sayoko Ninomiya · Haruko Sugimura

Plot Based on novel by Shintaro Ishihara, this is a human drama about the complex relationship of parent and child. Haruo spends his time working in a university hospital when he...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Harold Conway · Masumi Harukawa · Tonpei Hidari

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Suisen Ichikawa · Shima Iwashita · Tetsurô Tanba

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Scott Glenn · Toshirô Mifune · Donna Kei Benz · Atsuo Nakamura

Plot A down-and-out American boxer becomes involved in a feud between two Japanese brothers.

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Frankie Sakai · Chikage Awashima · Reiko Dan

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Chikage Awashima · Daisuke Kato · Michiyo Kogure

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Machiko Kyô · Keiji Sada · Miyuki Kuwano · Junko Ikeuchi

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Frankie Sakai · Eitarô Matsuyama · Junzaburo Ban

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Hiroshi Koizumi · Keiko Awaji · Chikage Ogi · Takashi Shimura

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Keiko Awaji · Kinuyo Tanaka · Hisaya Ito

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Nobuko Otowa · Jun Tazaki · Isao Yamagata

Direction Hiromichi Horikawa

Cast Kinya Kitaoji · Kyoko Mitsubayashi · Eiji Okada · Tetsurô Tanba

Plot A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Ryoko Nakano · Kichiemon Nakamura · Takashi Shimura · Toshirô Mifune

Plot Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has...