Screenplay: Masaki Kobayashi

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 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 Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Ken Uehara · Haruko Sugimura · Keiji Sada

Plot Iemon Tamiya is an impovershed masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

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

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Toshiko Kobayashi · Masayuki Mori · Sadako Sawamura

Plot In a wealthy family, a mother and her grown-up children are a happy and colourful group people, each with their own dreams and aspirations. But these are ultimately quashed by...

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 Tatsuya Nakadai · Mayumi Ogawa · Kie Nakai · Kiichi Nakai

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Yûko Asano · Bunta Sugawara · Ryudo Uzaki

Plot Samurai Koheita Mochizuki, who goes by the nickname Dora-Heita, meaning "alley cat" or "playboy," pretends to be an alcoholic magistrate but is in actuality an envoy from the daimyo sent...