Soundtrack: Yasushi Akutagawa

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Shûji Sano · Mitsuko Mito · Sachiko Hidari

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Osamu Takizawa · Mickey Curtis · Mantarô Ushio

Plot It is the Philipines, 1945. The Japanese Imperial Army has been reduced to a ragtag mob hiding in the jungles. Among them is Pvt. Tamura. The situation goes from bad...

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Yoshiko Kuga · Masayuki Mori · Tatsuo Saito · Mieko Takamine

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Ken Uehara · Kinuyo Tanaka · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Hideko Takamine

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Masayuki Mori · Michiyo Aratama · Tatsuya Mihashi · Shoji Yasui

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Ken Ogata · Shima Iwashita · Mayumi Ogawa · Hiroki Iwase

Plot When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very...

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Go Kato · Kensaku Morita · Yôko Shimada

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Machiko Kyô · Kazuo Hasegawa · Isao Yamagata · Yataro Kurokawa

Plot In 1350, during an attempted coup, one of the court's ladies in waiting disguises herself as the lord's wife, and a loyal samurai conveys her from the city. This diversion...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Hiroyuki Nagato · Eiji Funakoshi · Rentarô Mikuni

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Keiko Kishi · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Kinuyo Tanaka · Masayuki Mori

Plot "Her Brother" is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, where it won a prize for Special Distinction. In...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Masayuki Mori · Kinuyo Tanaka · Ruriko Asaoka

Plot A powerful hymn to the human spirit, Alone Across the Pacific – by renowned Japanese director Kon Ichikawa (An Actor’s Revenge, The Burmese Harp, Tokyo Olympiad) – tells the extraordinary...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Machiko Kyô · Ganjiro Nakamura · Tatsuya Nakadai · Junko Kano

Plot A man getting on in years sets out to find a way to resurrect his flagging virility.

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Yoshiko Kuga · Hizuru Takachiho · Ineko Arima · Koji Nambara

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Eitarô Ozawa · Kenji Sugawara · Keiko Tsushima · Eijirô Tono

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Hiro Suzuki · Eiji Funakoshi · Fujiko Yamamoto · Kumeko Urabe

Plot The trials, tribulations, and joys of raising a child. The film follows the everyday events of a family with one boy, coming up to his second birthday, interspersed with occasional...

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Ineko Arima · Shin Saburi · Yatsuko Tan'ami · Nobuko Otowa

Plot An affair between a middle-aged journalist (Saburi Shin) and a young woman (Arima Ineko).

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Shuntarô Emi · Yuji Hori · Setsuko Horikoshi · Choko Iida

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Mariko Okada · Sachiko Tooyama · Kyoko Aoyama

Plot After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt sweater.

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Shima Iwashita · Yoshi Kato · Sachiko Hidari · Takahiro Tamura

Plot In this Japanese drama, a young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. First she torches her parents' villa, and then slaughters all her lascivious mother's...

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Chikage Awashima · Ayako Wakao · Ryo Ikebe · Takashi Shimura

Plot A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.