Soundtrack: Ryudo Uzaki

Direction Banmei Takahashi

Cast Kantarou Nakamura · Yuki Uchida · Sho Aikawa · Tatsuya Fujiwara

Direction Yōjirō Takita

Cast Ren Osugi · Rie Shibata · Kayoko Kishimoto · Tomoe Shinohara

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Meiko Kaji · Ryudo Uzaki · Hisashi Igawa · Sachiko Hidari

Synopsis "Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to...

Direction Rintaro

Synopsis A young boy named Jiro finds his mother and sister murdered in his home. Falsely accused of the crime, he flees from his village and meets a priest named Tenkai, who has him kill a rogue ninja named Tarouza. After...

Direction Nobutaka Nishizawa

Synopsis The year is 1999. Amamori Hajime is just a normal, everyday elementary school student, trying to study and hanging out with his crazy pals. But then one day as his father is testing a piece of equipment he has been...

Direction Hirotsugu Kawasaki

Synopsis Jun Tendo is a young teenager who is taken to the past to fight in a mystic war during the Heian period in Japan. Legend says that Jun should be able to control Orochi, a powerful eight-headed dragon. Viewed as...

Direction Banmei Takahashi

Cast Ryudo Uzaki · Keiko Takahashi · Misako Watanabe

Synopsis Already slipping into crime as a potential career when still a teenager, Akio Takeda determines that he will do something "really big" before the age of 30. As a first step, he changes his appearance, getting a tattoo (which identifies...

Direction Kazuyuki Izutsu

Cast Noriko Watanabe · Yôsuke Tagawa · Masataka Matsutouya · Mitsuyo Asaka

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Kinji Fukasaku · Yoshiho Fukuoka · Yoshio Harada · Hiroki Hayashi

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ken Takakura · Junko Sakurada · Philippe Leroy · Nenji Kobayashi

Direction Toru Murakawa

Cast Isao Natsuyagi · Katsu Ryuzaki · Akira Nakao · Yôko Shimada

Synopsis An elite college graduates in the 1950's will commit perfect financial crimes through legal loopholes.

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Takuzo Kawatani · Naohiko Shigeta · Atsuko Asano · Hiromitsu Suzuki

Synopsis Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a fortyish film maniac who spends nearly all his time at the movies and a 19-year-old going...

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Yoshio Harada · Miwako Fujitani · Yoko Kuga · Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Synopsis Koji Wakamatsu adapted the Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.

Direction Yasuzô Masumura · Toshiaki Kunihara

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura · Rentarô Mikuni · Ken Utsui

Synopsis Detective movie about a murder.

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Ken Takakura · Chieko Baisho · Ayumi Ishida · Setsuko Karasuma

Synopsis Constantly put to the test and faced with tragedy wherever he turns, can a man finally find solace and a modicum of love or rest with what is left of his hometown, his family, love or himself?

Direction Azuma Morisaki

Cast Mitsuko Baisho · Yoshio Harada · Mitsuru Hirata · Tonpei Hidari

Synopsis A traveling stripper, Barbara came back to Nagoya. The second floor of a rice shop managed by Takeko in Okinawa Village was her residence, her inner husband Miyazato and her best friend Aiko were supposed to be waiting. On that...

Direction Makoto Ishikawa · Makoto Tsuji

Cast Kohisa Ishikawa · Yumi Nomura · Jou Onodera · Akira Ishihama

Synopsis In Shotaro Ishinomori's own deconstructionist entry in his famous "Masked Rider" series, young Shin Kazamatsuri is transformed into a powerful grasshopper mutant by a scientific institute known only as the "Foundation," which targets him.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Keiko Kishi · Ryuuji Harada · Shoichi Ozawa · Kanae Katsuno

Synopsis A strong-willed matriarch (Keiko Kishi) struggles to keep her brood of five -- including three grown sons and a pretty, marriageable daughter -- on the road to financial survival, if not success. She has also given them a strong moral...

Direction Hideyuki Hirayama

Cast Mai Toyoda · Matsunosuke Shofukutei · Yuki Minakawa · Mieko Harada

Synopsis Taking advantage of their summer holiday, a boy and his little sister visit their cousin at Nozaki located at the sea-side. However, on the day they arrive, a typhoon hits the town for the first time in many years. At...

Direction Hiro Kitamoto · Toshiaki Kobayashi · Michio Konishi · Takeshi Ogasawara

Cast Tetsuo Kurata · Akemi Inoue · Takahito Horiuchi · Kazumasa Nasamune