Soundtrack: Teizo Matsumura

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Mariko Kaga · Hosei Komatsu · Toshie Kimura · Takeshi Kusaka

Synopsis A boy on the northern island of Hokkaido, Japan catches a butterfly from Nagasaki, at the southern end of the archipelago. His teachers think he bought the insect in a department store and lecture him on his fraud. Meanwhile, a...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Isao Kimura · Mayumi Ogawa · Takeshi Kusaka

Synopsis Ritsuko is married to Shingo, a design engineer. Shingo is unable to father a child so Ritsuko is artificially inseminated. The birth of a son, Takashi, however, does not help marital relations between husband and wife. When Sakaguchi, a doctor...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Misa Shimizu · Nagiko Tono · Masatoshi Nagase · Hidetaka Yoshioka

Direction Kihachirô Kawamoto

Synopsis An elderly monk and his young eager acolyte travel along a road crowded with pilgrims toward a famous temple. As evening approaches they find lodging at a young widow’s; she falls passionately in love with the young man. He can...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Kumiko Akiyoshi · Eiji Okuda · Hisashi Igawa · Kyôko Kagawa

Synopsis Three Japanese pilgrims arrive in India. Miss Naruse is looking for Otsu, a Catholic priest, her lover ten years before; after time in France and Israel, he has come to Benares where he carries the bodies of the poor to...

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Yoshio Harada · Jun Fubuki · Kirina Mano · Shuji Kashiwabara

Synopsis Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves the groper of his wallet. More often than not they're observed by a middle-aged cop, who generally...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Eiji Okuda · Ken Watanabe · Takahiro Tamura · Kyôko Kishida

Synopsis Downed American fliers in World War II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.

Direction Susumu Hani

Cast Yuri Suemasa · Kenzo Kawarazaki · Kimiko Nukamura · Rumiko Tanuma

Synopsis Aido (Yuri Suemasa) is a beautiful woman cursed with an insatiable appetite for sex. After an affair with a young student, she engages in several other affairs in which she can no longer tell fantasy from reality.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Hashinosuké Nakamura · Toshirô Yanagiba · Toshinori Omi

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Kinya Kitaoji · Kirin Kiki · Mayumi Ogawa

Synopsis The beautiful Yumechiyo returns home with the crushing news that her atom-bomb-induced illness is leukemia. With less than 6 months to live she falls in love with a young man.

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Mizuho Suzuki · Hiroko Kino · Mugihito · Sen Hara

Synopsis A Japanese soldier has an affair with a Korean girl at the beginning of World war II. The union produces a child and the backlash of social intolerance of people of different countries. Twenty years later, the soldier is a...

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Yoshio Harada · Renji Ishibashi · Rie Nakagawa · Yusaku Matsuda

Synopsis Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and prepared the way for the Meiji Restoration (1868). A samurai film in an ironic almost...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Eiji Okuda · Toshirô Mifune · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Go Kato

Synopsis Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death. Years before: Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter,...

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Jun Fubuki · Jun Hamamura · Yoshio Harada · Yûdai Ishiyama

Synopsis In a melancholic seaside town, the bodies of two lovers who committed double suicide are found on the shore. A local reporter and the dead woman's pimp begin to investigate and find out that something very suspicious is going on.

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Hisashi Igawa · Satoko Iwasaki · Taketoshi Naitô

Synopsis The island of Hokkaido, in Japan, is located near the Arctic Circle and is famous for its cold, snowy winters. In this understated drama, a celebrated writer is being shown some caves, which have glow-in-the-dark moss, by the local school...

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Jun Etô · Haruko Mabuchi · Hajime Hana · Yoshio Harada

Synopsis Matsori no junbi based on the novel of the same name by screenwriter Nakajima Takehiro, which takes its title from a picture by Paul Gauguin. This autobiographical film about a young man who dreams of becoming a screenwriter is set...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Go Kato · Komaki Kurihara · Yasushi Nagata · Kinzo Shin

Synopsis A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and the inhospitable snowscapes of the north.

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Yoshio Harada · Kanako Higuchi · Shintarô Katsu

Synopsis It is a small rural village whose main attraction is a brothel where the towns people gather for drinks and joviality at day's end. This generally seems to result in much head-knocking and pitiful sword flailing as the poverty-stricken ronin...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Keiko Takahashi · Shin Saburi · Kinya Kitaoji

Synopsis Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoiled region in which they live into a land development.

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Miyuki Takakura · Tatsuo Terashima · Yoichi Numata · Takashi Wada