Direction: Kei Kumai

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Komaki Kurihara · Yôko Takahashi · Kinuyo Tanaka · Ken Tanaka

Plot An old woman tells her heartrending story of her experience as a "karayukisan," the young Japanese women sent to southeast Asia to pay off their family debts by working as...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Misa Shimizu · Nagiko Tono · Masatoshi Nagase · Hidetaka Yoshioka

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Kumiko Akiyoshi · Eiji Okuda · Hisashi Igawa · Kyôko Kagawa

Plot Three Japanese pilgrims arrive in India. Miss Naruse is looking for Otsu, a Catholic priest, her lover ten years before; after time in France and Israel, he has come to...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Jûkichi Uno · Izumi Ashikawa · Hideaki Nitani · Mizuho Suzuki

Plot The appearance of the corpse of a U.S. Army sergeant triggers a series of unexpected events.

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...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Eiji Okuda · Ken Watanabe · Takahiro Tamura · Kyôko Kishida

Plot Downed American fliers in World War II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Mizuho Suzuki · Hiroko Kino · Mugihito · Sen Hara

Plot A Japanese soldier has an affair with a Korean girl at the beginning of World war II. The union produces a child and the backlash of social intolerance of people...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Eiji Okuda · Toshirô Mifune · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Go Kato

Plot Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death. Years before: Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Hisashi Igawa · Satoko Iwasaki · Taketoshi Naitô

Plot The island of Hokkaido, in Japan, is located near the Arctic Circle and is famous for its cold, snowy winters. In this understated drama, a celebrated writer is being shown...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Go Kato · Komaki Kurihara · Yasushi Nagata · Kinzo Shin

Plot A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and the inhospitable snowscapes of the north.

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Keiko Takahashi · Shin Saburi · Kinya Kitaoji

Plot Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoiled region in which they live into a land development.

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Ichirô Nakatani · Yôko Asaji · Takashi Ebata

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Masaaki Daimon · Mitsuo Hamada · Daigo Kusano

Plot Set in Japan's Tenpyou era, four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Akira Terao · Naomi Hosokawa · Nagiko Tono

Plot A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer of 1994 to find himself the prime...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yujiro Ishihara · Osamu Takizawa · Takashi Shimura

Plot Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Eiji Okuda · Keiko Kishi · Kyôko Kagawa · Mieko Harada

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Kinzo Shin · Yumi Takano · Keiko Yanagawa · Mizuho Suzuki

Plot A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer of 1994 to find himself the prime...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Miki Sakai · Atsuro Watabe · Jô Shishido · Masumi Okada

Plot Two young people meet by chance and fall in love but the woman is diagnosed with leprosy and sent away to a remote mountain sanitorium.