Youth Part II
Isamu, a star athlete in high school, becomes a race cyclist. He wins his debut races, but soon his opponents see through his lack of strategy and beat him easily. Isamu's maths teacher, a race cycling freak, says he knows the solution to Isamu's problem. But will Isamu listen to him?
Double Bed
Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has a girl friend Riko who lives with her younger sister Yuko who's an actress. Yamazaki is a lyric writer/womanizer and he starts to have an affair with Masako, but he's still going out with Riko.
Virgin Blues
Teenagers are rebels without a cause. Let it be for stress relief or just a way to kill time, Mami (Kumiko Akiyoshi) and Chiaki were always up to no good – but their luck runs out when they shoplift with some other girls at a local supermarket. They flee from the scene and head back home, only to find detectives at their front door.
The Second Love
Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult. Kazumi's younger and more inexperienced husband Hideo is continually suspicious of her fidelity.
School in the Crosshairs
Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi student enforcers, Yuka and her friends vow to stop her. But behind it all is a mysterious force that will put Yuka's powers to the ultimate test!
The Island Closest to Heaven
A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.
Lady Snowblood
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
Peony Lantern
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her.
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Toshiya Fujita
Director
Akira Takahashi
as
Daisuke Iijima
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Bang-ho Cho
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Man in Library
Miyoko Akaza
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Ueno's Wife
Yutaka Hayashi
as
Hiroyuki Nagato
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Middle-aged man
Kumiko Akiyoshi
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Shoplifter
Yôichi Higashi
Director
Akiko Kitamura
as
Kaoru Kobayashi
as
Hideo Hyuga
Michiko Araki
as
Kazumi's mother
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Director
Shingo Yanagisawa
as
Tôru Minegishi
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Kyogoku, the Demon
Hiroko Yakushimaru
as
Yuka Mitamura
Tomoyo Harada
as
Mari Katsuragi
Nobuko Otowa
as
Tei Ishikawa
Eiji Okada
as
Gishirô Tsukamoto
Toshio Kurosawa
as
Ryûrei Ashio
Akemi Negishi
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Tajire no Okiku
Michiko Ôtsuka
as
Oyone
Kôyû Ohara
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