Black River
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.
Beautiful Days
Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.
Apostasy
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
Our Marriage
When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
Sword of the Beast
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.
Madame White Snake
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.
Battle of Okinawa
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the defenders to build an airstrip for aircraft that never come. The truth soon becomes obvious: the high command decides that the island cannot be held and effectively abandons the Okinawan defenders. When the Americans land many troops are deployed in the wrong places. As the slaughter mounts, a suicidal attitude takes hold. Okinawa becomes a death trap, for civilian volunteers and non-combatants as well.
Untamed Woman
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
Fight of Gamblers
Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the Town Hall, other gangs set out to disrupt her business and try to kill her.
Otoko no monshô
A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict.
The Steel Edge of Revenge
A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
Akitsu Springs
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
I Will Buy You
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers. While Otsu waits, Akemi also seeks him, expressing her desires directly. Meanwhile, Takezo is observed by Sasaki Kojiro, a brilliant young fighter, confident he can dethrone Takezo. After leaving Kyoto in triumph, Takezo declares his love for Otsu, but in a way that dishonors her and shames him. Once again, he leaves alone.
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
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Masaki Kobayashi
Director
Masao Oda
as
Eijirô Tôno
as
Kurihara
Isuzu Yamada
as
Landlady
Tomo'o Nagai
as
Okada
Hitomi Nozoe
as
Fujio Suga
as
Sadako Sawamura
as
Keisuke Kinoshita
Director
Kappei Matsumoto
as
Jûkichi Uno
as
Ginnosuke Tuchiya
Ichirô Sugai
as
Keinosuke Kazama
Hideo Gosha
Director
Takeshi Katô
as
Kunie Tanaka
as
Tanji
Shirô Toyoda
Director
Hisaya Morishige
as
Fortuneteller at booth
Kaoru Yachigusa
as
Xiao-Qing
Mikio Naruse
Director
Masahiko Tsugawa
as
Hideko Takamine
as
Oshima
Mitsuko Miura
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Oyu, her rival
Yoshishige Yoshida
Director
Kakuko Chino
as
Teruo Yoshida
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News reporter
Minoru Ôki
as
Gorô Kurita
Sôji Kiyokawa
as
Toshirô Mifune
as
Musashi Miyamoto
Yoshio Inaba
as
Eiko Miyoshi
as
Osugi, Matahachi's mother
Masao Mishima
as
Kuroki Shochô
Masahiro Shinoda
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Kihachi Okamoto
