Direction: Masaki Kobayashi

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Akira Ishihama · Shima Iwashita

Plot A ronin, a masterless samurai, requests permission to commit an honorable ritual suicide at the home of a powerful but sadistic warlord. The warlord is reluctant to permit this as...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Yusuke Kawazu · Tamao Nakamura

Plot The protagonist is the pacifistic Kaji. Strong-armed into the Japanese military during World War II, Kaji has reluctantly learned to kill on the battlefields. Upon his country's surrender, Kaji and...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yôko Tsukasa · Go Kato · Tatsuya Nakadai

Plot In 1725, during a peaceful period in Japan, Isaburo, a veteran samurai, lives placidly with his wife and his son. One day, his honor and moral principles will be at...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Ineko Arima · Chikage Awashima

Plot During the Second World War, Kaji, a japanese pacifist, tries to avoid military service by accepting a job as a supervisor in the mines of Manchuria, in occupied territory. Kaji...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Kei Sato · Minoru Chiaki

Plot Second World War. Forced to join the japanese army, Kaji is sent to Manchuria. There, he becomes friends with a soldier who sympathizes with communism. After a visit from his...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Katsuo Nakamura · Kei Sato

Plot This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Toru Abe · Minoru Chiaki · Tatsuya Nakadai · Jun Hamamura

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 Fumio Watanabe · Ineko Arima · Tatsuya Nakadai · Asao Sano

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Ko Mishima · Torahiko Hamada · Keiko Kishi · Tatsuya Nakadai

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

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

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Keiji Sada · Minoru Oki · Keiko Kishi · Yûnosuke Itô

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Akira Ishihama · Chishu Ryu · Kuniko Miyake · Yôko Kosono

Plot The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Isuzu Yamada · Ko Mishima · Yûnosuke Itô · Shoji Mori

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Michiyo Aratama · Makoto Fujita · Toshio Kurosawa · Tomoko Naraoka

Plot During WWII a soldier is beaten so badly by a superior officer he is left deaf. After the war he is an inventor and meets this officer at the patent...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Keiko Awaji · Chieko Higashiyama · Akira Ishihama

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Keiji Sada · Yoshiko Kuga · Isao Kimura · Toshiko Kobayashi

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Keiji Sada · Yoshiko Kuga · Hideko Takamine · Akira Ishihama

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Plot One of the major documentaries on a specific chapter in modern Japanese history, this look at the trial of Japanese militarists accused of war crimes is excellently handled by director...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Shinsuke Ashida · Hisashi Igawa · Tsunehiko Kamijô · Kinya Kitaoji