Screenplay: Toshirô Ishidô

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Yoshiko Tanaka · Kazuo Kitamura · Etsuko Ichihara · Shoichi Ozawa

Plot The title refers to the radioactive fallout which descended upon ruined city of Hiroshima after the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Young bride-to-be Yoshiko Tanaka has the misfortune to...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Shinsuke Ashida · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi · Tamotsu Hayakawa

Plot Eight years into her marriage, Miyako looks happy on the outside, but in fact she is not satisfied with her husband, Yuzo, who cares about nothing but his career. Miyako...

Direction Akio Jissoji

Cast Kotobuki Hananomoto · Akiji Kobayashi · Eiji Okada · Kin Sugai

Plot Jissoji's feature film debut about the incestuous relationship of two siblings from a traditional family near Kyoto is a rare example of a successful rendition of Buddhist thought in film...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hashizo Okawa · Ryutaro Otomo · Satomi Oka · Rentarô Mikuni

Plot In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Hugh Hurd · Jun Hamamura · Toshirô Ishidô

Plot One of Oshima’s two film adaptations set during World War II, The Catch shows how perceived differences between the Japanese and others perpetuated conflict. In this case, an African American...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ken Takakura · Tsunehiko Watase · Eiji Okada · Keiko Oginome

Plot Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Miyuki Kuwano · Fumio Watanabe · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Shinko Ujiie

Plot One of Oshima's most ingenious and radical films uses the wedding celebration of two young activists as the backdrop for a series of political confrontations shot with a dazzling theatricality,...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Ruriko Asaoka · Yasunori Irikawa · Isao Yamagata

Plot Shizuo Matsutani, a bank clerk, is engaged to Yumika, daughter of a rich shopowner, Denzô Hashimoto. But when he discovers that his mother, the beautiful Shizuka, is having an affair...

Direction Akio Jissoji

Cast Shin Kishida · Hiroko Sakurai · Saburo Shinoda · Ryo Tamura

Plot The young houseboy in Uta wakes up every night to patrol the house of a teacher with a flashlight. He leads an austere life of meditation and he focuses his...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Masahiko Tsugawa · Kayoko Honjo · Isao Sasaki · Kamatari Fujiwara

Plot In Osaka's slum, youth without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi,...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Isao Kimura · Yukio Ninagawa · Miyoko Akaza

Plot Yuriko, owner of a barbershop in Sapporo, takes a trip with Sugino, her lover. When they enjoy themselves in the cold and the snow, Yuriko tells him that she has...

Direction Akio Jissoji

Cast Shin Kishida · Kôji Shimizu · Hiroko Sakurai · Ryo Tamura

Plot A married couple travels in order to engage in a swing practice, there being attacked by a group of maniacs. Strangely interested in their attackers they begin to search for...

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Masako Izumi · Mitsuo Hamada · Jun Hamamura · Minako Katsuki

Plot Living in a small coast village, Wakae, a 15 years old teenager, works in a bar as a hostess. Her mother is dead and her father, alcoholic and poor, is...

Direction Masanori Kakei · Eizo Yamagiwa · Tadashi Mafune · Takumi Furukawa

Cast Keiji Takamine · Mitsuko Hoshi · Tetsurô Sagawa · Shunichi Okita

Plot TV series (1972-1973). 52 episodes.

Direction Noriaki Yuasa · Tôru Toyama · Kiyo Sumi Fukazawa · Shohei Tojo

Cast Masaaki Daimon · Yûsaku Yara · Hatsunori Hasegawa · Jin Nakayama

Plot TV Series (1980-1981). 50 Episodes. Ultraman 80, disguised as mild-mannered schoolteacher Takeshi Yamato, defends the Earth from ferocious giant monsters, which are the result of negative energy from human anger.

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Ryutaro Otomo · Kyû Sazanka · Naoko Kubo · Jûshirô Konoe

Plot Kato Tai's 1962 entry in the long-running Tange Sazen series.

Direction Masanori Kakei · Eizo Yamagiwa · Noboru Kaji · Ishirô Honda

Cast Jiro Dan · Shunsuke Ikeda · Jun Negami · Nobuo Tsukamoto

Plot TV series (1971-1972). 51 episodes. Another being from Nebula M-78, identical to the original Ultraman, combines with car racer-turned-MAT patrol member Hideki Gô, and fights assorted menaces in a frightening...

Direction Tôru Toyama · Kiyo Sumi Fukazawa · Isao Maeda · Yamamoto Masataka

Cast Kôji Moritsugu · Mîna Tominaga · Ryû Manatsu · Yu Fujiki

Plot TV series (1974-1975). 51 episodes. After being brutally maimed by evil aliens, Dan Moroboshi (Ultra Seven) takes under his wing a fierce young Ultra-like being from L-77, and christens him...

Direction Masanori Kakei · Eizo Yamagiwa · Kiyo Sumi Fukazawa · Tadashi Mafune

Cast Saburo Shinoda · Toyoyuki Kimura · Tetsurô Sagawa · Mayumi Asaka

Plot TV series (1973-1974). 53 episodes.

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara · Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Lynne Adams · Wesley Addy · Allen Altman · Bernard Behrens

Plot Harry Truman, the successor to the Oval Office after the late President Rosevelt, is plagued with the decisions of war that could save or cost a thousand lives.