Screenplay: Mamoru Sasaki

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kei Sato · Fumio Watanabe · Toshirô Ishidô · Masao Adachi

Plot A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kazuo Goto · Emiko Iwasaki · Sugio Fukuoka · Keiichi Fukuda

Plot Oshima's provocative film throws up more questions than it could ever hope to answer (about politics, about film-making, about youth), but is nonetheless fascinating. Playing with notions of reality with...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kenzo Kawarazaki · Atsuko Kaku · Atsuo Nakamura · Akiko Koyama

Plot Oshima Nagisa's The Ceremony is a fascinating study of Japan's war and post-war period, as seen through the eyes of a young man from an influential family. The Ceremony is...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Tadanori Yokoo · Rie Yokoyama · Kei Sato · Juro Kara

Plot The film centers around Birdie, a young, Japanese book thief who soon is caught by a woman named Umeko. As they become young lovers, the two begin stealing books together....

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Ichirô Araki · Koji Iwabuchi · Kazuyoshi Kushida · Hiroshi Satō

Plot A group of provincial high school students, in Tokyo for their university entrance examinations, are thoroughly disillusioned with the older generation and see no hope for the future. They respond...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hiromi Kurita · Hosei Komatsu · Akiko Koyama · Shôji Ishibashi

Plot Like many of Oshima's films, is an experimental exploration of moral corruption, partly based on a true story. Story is about a Tokyo girl looking round Okinawa island for her...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kazuhiko Kato · Norihiko Hashida · Osamu Kitayama · Kei Sato

Plot This riotous comedy (in colour and Scope) is a cocktail of dumb cops, desperate Koreans, and Japanese students who don't know what's hit them. It starts with the students taking...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Keiko Sakurai · Kei Sato · Tetsuo Ashida · Yoshiyuki Fukuda

Plot A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Plot Author/illustrator Sanpei Shirato’s Ninja bugei-cho was a popular graphic novel serialized across Japan in the 1960s, well loved by students and leftist radicals for its tale of a young boy’s...

Direction Hiroyoshi Mitsunobu · Tameo Kohonawa

Plot TV Series. 26 episodes. At the end of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck is adopted by the Widow Douglas in return for saving her life. In Adventures of Huckleberry...

Direction Eiji Tsuburaya · Akio Jissoji · Hajime Tsuburaya · Yuzo Higuchi

Cast Susumu Kurobe · Sandayû Dokumamushi · Masanari Nihei · Bin Furuya

Plot TV Series (1966-1967). 40 Episodes. The Ultra Series is the collective name for all the shows produced by Tsuburaya Productions featuring Ultraman, his many brethren, and the myriad Ultra Monsters....

Direction Hajime Tsuburaya

Cast Akiji Kobayashi · Susumu Kurobe · Sandayû Dokumamushi · Susumu Fujita

Plot While investigating two glowing ball-like UFOs chasing each other, Science Patrol officer Hayata is killed when one of the UFOs accidentally crashes into the Mini-VTOL he rode. The being inside,...

Direction Kazuho Mitsuta · Toshitsugu Suzuki · Samaji Nonagase · Hajime Tsuburaya

Cast Kôji Moritsugu · Yuriko Hishimi · Sandayû Dokumamushi · Shôji Nakayama

Plot An alien superhero from M-78 protects Earth from extraterrestrial threats in this popular classic follow-up to the original "Ultraman" TV series.

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Eiko Matsuda · Osamu Sakuta · Atsuko Asano · Keizo Kanie

Plot Eros Eterna tells the story of a legendary immortal nun who wanders around encountering several people of various conditions.

Direction Mio Ezaki · Hiroshi Okamoto · Hideo Onchi · Eizô Sugawa

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Toshiyuki Nagashima · Saburo Shinoda · Yûsuke Natsu

Plot TV serie (1978). 1 season.

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Keiko Takahashi · Norio Nishikawa · Shinsuke Shimada

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 Tsuneo Kobayashi · Itaru Orita · Katsuhiko Taguchi · Yoshihiro Tomita

Cast Kenichi Sakuragi · Kazuko Aoki · Sonny Chiba · Nobuyuki Ishida

Plot TV series (1969-1971). 92 episodes.

Direction Satoshi Dezaki · Kyosuke Mikuriya · Tada Nagahama · Seiji Okuda