Screenplay: Yukio Mishima

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ruriko Asaoka · Nobuo Nakamura · Tetsuo Ishidate · Chitose Kurenai

Plot Koreyoshi Kurahara adapted a novel by Yukio Mishima for Thirst for Love (Ai no kawaki), a tense psychological drama about a young woman who is widowed after marrying into a...

Direction Yukio Mishima · Domoto Masaki

Cast Yukio Mishima · Yoshiko Tsuruoka

Plot Playwright and novelist Yukio Mishima predicted his own suicide with this ravishing short feature, his only foray into filmmaking. All prints of Patriotism (Yukoku), which depicts the seppuku (ritual suicide)...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Noriko Kurosawa · Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Osahide Takahashi · Kôji Moritsugu

Plot A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups. Based on a novel by Yukio Mishima.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Tatsuya Nakadai · Ganjiro Nakamura · Yoichi Funaki

Plot Told in an intricate flashback structure, Enjo dramatizes the psychological collapse of Goichi (Raizo Ichikawa), a young Buddhist acolyte from a dysfunctional family who arrives at a Kyoto temple -...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Stina Ekblad · Anita Björk · Marie Richardson · Margareta Byström

Plot The setting of Madame de Sade begins in France in 1772 and ends twelve years later, nine months after the French Revolution. Six Women, one of them Madame de Sade,...

Direction Lewis John Carlino

Cast Sarah Miles · Kris Kristofferson · Jonathan Kahn · Margo Cunningham

Direction Benoît Jacquot

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Vincent Martínez · Vincent Lindon · Marthe Keller

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Akihiro Miwa · Isao Kimura · Kikko Matsuoka · Jun Usami

Direction Luis Ortega

Cast Julieta Ortega · Joaquín Furriel · Alejandro Urdapilleta · Ian Acevedo

Direction Daihachi Yoshida

Cast Lily Franky · Kazuya Kamenashi · Ai Hashimoto · Tomoko Nakajima

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ruriko Asaoka · Koji Ishizaka · Bunta Sugawara · Kiichi Nakai

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Mariko Kô · Shûji Sano · Edith Hanson

Plot Saeko, the daughter of a wealthy business man, meets Jôji on the plane, a flight attendant, and quickly falls in love with him. When Saeko starts gathering information about Jôji...

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Machiko Kyô · Minoru Oki · Junko Kano · Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Plot A jeweler hires detective Akechi to find his daughter kidnapped by a famous thief known as the Black Lizard.

Direction Isao Yukisada

Cast Yuko Takeuchi · Satoshi Tsumabuki · Sosuke Takaoka · Ayako Wakao

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Akihiro Miwa · Eitarô Ozawa · Masakazu Tamura · Ayako Hosho

Plot The mysterious chanteuse Ryoko Fujio arrives in town and begins to perform at Sako Kyohei's Black Rose Mansion. She appears and leaves at the same times every day. No one...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Yusuke Kawazu · Hisaya Morishige · Akio Hasegawa

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura · Ichirô Arishima · Keiko Tsushima

Plot Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant...

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Keiko Awaji · Chieko Higashiyama · Ichirô Izawa · Yôko Katsuragi

Direction Yoichi Takabayashi

Cast Saburo Shinoda · Toshio Shiba · Katsuhiko Yokomitsu · Yoshie Shimamura

Plot "Temple of the Golden Pavillion" - About the psychological decline of a novice Buddhist monk. After the death of his father, the stammering Goichi Mizoguchi seeks succour and loftier insights...