Cinematography: Noritaka Sakamoto

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Hitomi Kuroki · Tsurutaro Kataoka · Norihei Miki · Kippei Shiina

Synopsis The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.

Direction Shigeyuki Yamane

Cast Hiromi Gô · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Terumi Azuma · Akira Ishihama

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Masahiko Tsugawa · Morio Kazama · Miki Fujitani

Synopsis A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "Women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Miki Fujitani · Tomorô Taguchi · Miyoko Akaza · Hitoshi Ômae

Synopsis People from all walks of life (a high-school student, a middle-aged businessman, a yakuza chief, etc.) all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small...

Direction Shigeyuki Yamane

Cast Hiromi Gô · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Atsushi Kawaguchi · Noboru Nakaya

Direction Yukio Ninagawa

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Keiko Takahashi · Masako Natsume · Aiko Morishita

Direction Yoichi Maeda

Cast Kaori Momoi · Tsunehiko Watase · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Kirin Kiki

Direction Kôichi Saitô

Cast Goro Noguchi · Keiko Usami · Shinobu Otake · Kunie Tanaka

Direction Masaharu Segawa

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Kie Nakai · Naoko Otani · Saburo Ishikura

Synopsis This is a sad and beautiful story about a father who is a popular comedian and a son who suffered by an incurable disease.

Direction Azuma Morisaki

Cast Tatsuya Fuji · Hitoshi Ueki · Shingo Yamashiro · Rumiko Koyanagi

Synopsis Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time.

Direction Kôichi Saitô

Cast Keiko Kishi · Kenichi Hagiwara · Yoshie Minami · Rentarô Mikuni

Synopsis This sad Japanese romantic melodrama tells the brief love story of a very alert young man and an extremely beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during a train ride.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Ryo Amamiya · Yuri Nakae · Narimi Arimori · Kyusaku Shimada

Synopsis A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in the Triathlon. The story is told in flashbacks as Namiko awaits childbirth.

Direction Toru Murakawa

Cast Yoshizumi Ishihara · Masato Furuoya · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Hiroshi Katsuno

Synopsis A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their situation becomes increasingly desperate as events spin out of control, culminating in an audacious hijack at sea.

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Keiko Matsuzaka · Kimiko Ikegami · Machiko Kyô · Yuko Kazu

Direction Shigeyuki Yamane

Cast Yôko Asaji · Hiromi Gô · Kaneko Iwasaki · Isao Kimura

Direction Azuma Morisaki

Cast Keiko Matsuzaka · Kôji Yakusho · Mitsuru Hirata · Takuzo Kawatani

Synopsis Toyoyo Ishiyama is a beautiful woman who is about 30 years old when he is old, but he is a thief. One day, Toyoyo falls in love with Takashi Saegusa, a poor musician who lives in the same inn, and...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Kiyoshi Atsumi · Kuniyasu Atsumi

Synopsis A group of ultra-right military prepares a coup d'etat, code-named August Without the Emperor, with the goal of establishing a military dictatorship.

Direction Tamasaburo Bando

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Masaya Kato · Kiichi Nakai · Reona Hirota

Synopsis Melodrama about a woman refusing surgery.

Direction Kôichi Saitô

Cast Ken Takakura · Shintarô Katsu · Ichirô Nakatani · Noboru Andô

Synopsis The Homeless follows the story of two prisoners released the same day, who meets again at the brothel where they help a prostitute to escape from yakuza. And together, they go treasure hunting.

Direction Kôichi Saitô

Cast Yôko Takahashi · Etsushi Takahashi · Kyôko Kishida · Rentarô Mikuni

Synopsis The girl (Yoko Takahashi) leaves her mother (Kyoko Kishida) who's a painter leaving her a note "Mom, don't be surprised, and don't cry. I left on a journey. I'm not running away. I'm just going on a journey". She travels...