Cinematography: Yoshihiro Yamazaki

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Sachiko Murase · Choichiro Kawarazaki · Orie Satoh

Plot Yoshida returned to feature filmmaking after a hiatus of thirteen years with this brave and moving film about the struggle to maintain dignity in the face of old age and...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Nobuo Kaneko · Kojiro Kusanagi · Kô Nishimura · Mari Shiraki

Plot Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Masayuki Mori · Kinuyo Tanaka · Ruriko Asaoka

Plot A powerful hymn to the human spirit, Alone Across the Pacific – by renowned Japanese director Kon Ichikawa (An Actor’s Revenge, The Burmese Harp, Tokyo Olympiad) – tells the extraordinary...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Mitsuko Baisho · Keiko Takahashi · Kaoru Kobayashi

Plot An adult 's romantic drama depicting the conflict between the husband who ran to the woman and the conflicts of the remaining wife who knew that there was not a...

Direction Noboru Tanaka

Cast Mari Tanaka · Keiko Tsuzuki · Toshihiko Oda · Tomoko Katsura

Plot Saeko is abnormally attached to her older sister, Yumi. When Yumi becomes engaged to Arikawa, Saeko schemes to separate the two. She seduces Arikawa who then becomes confused over his...

Direction Mio Ezaki

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Kôji Wada · Hiroshi Nawa

Plot Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem, owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer....

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Makiko Aoi · Tomio Aoki · Akemi Ebata · Jun Hamamura

Plot While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of...

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Jô Shishido · Ryohei Uchida · Kenji Sugawara

Plot Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend’s death. She was killed for Gang’s boss, Shiraishi. Now Tadao returned from Canada and Gang...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Chieko Baisho · Mitsuko Baisho · Masatô Ibu

Direction Noboru Tanaka

Cast Rie Nakagawa · Songen Mita · Keiko Maki · Kazuko Shirakawa

Plot Yukie is a young woman who works at her father’s flower shop. She uses her job to hide from her problems including a marriage troubled by her sexual frigidity. Her...

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Mitsuo Hamada · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Masako Izumi · Osamu Takizawa

Plot Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Rosemary Dexter · Takeshi Ôbayashi

Direction Kôichi Saitô

Cast Ken Tanaka · Keiko Takeshita · Kentaro Akizuki · Naomi Hosokawa

Plot In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota. Subsequently, Kunimitsu moves back to his hometown...

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Mitsuo Hamada · Mieko Takamine · Masayuki Mori

Plot On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university years she made sure that she would...

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Yûko Mizushima · Rushia Santô · Mizuho Nakagawa · Masahiko Abe

Plot Toru was an ordinary businessman. One day he found a doll in the trash, and he took it home. In the next morning, he heard strange noises in the house,...

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Mariko Kaga · Tanie Kitabayashi · Akira Nakao · Takeshi Katô

Plot Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal.

Direction Rou Tomono

Cast Masaya Kato · Diane Lane · Yuen Biao · Donald Sutherland

Plot A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.

Direction Tokihisa Morikawa

Cast Keiko Takahashi · Masato Ise · Toshiyuki Nagashima · Shinsuke Ashida

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Junko Natsu · Tatsuya Fuji · Jiro Okazaki · Tako Tobe

Plot Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets closer to her for...

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Noboru Nakaya · Masako Togawa · Kazuo Kitamura · Yukiyo Toake

Plot Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo. While living in a hotel, he is also renting an apartment for fulfilling his sexual appetite. There, he...