Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow
A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appears to be on the horizon after he becomes romantically involved with his dead lover's twin sister, but more complications arise thanks to a chance encounter with a clan of shape-shifters.
Aka chôchin
A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.
Ninja hichô: Fukurô no shiro
Movie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the 'Taiko' becomes the target of an assassination attempt to be carried out by the Iga Clan of ninja spies. Master spy Juzo Tsuzura (Ryutaro Otomo) is assigned the task, but first he must defeat a former Iga spy who has become a traitor, and outwit the treacherous woman that is trying to seduce him.
Sharaku
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and producer, and describes the emanicipation of a man who refuses to let himself become the plaything of power and money.
Moonlight Serenade
After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II.
Profound Desires of the Gods
Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.
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Tomu Uchida
Director
Chôichirô Kawarasaki
as
Eijirô Yanagi
as
Hashizô Ôkawa
as
Abe no Yasuna
Ryûnosuke Tsukigata
as
Onono Yosifuru
Toshiya Fujita
Director
Rie Yokoyama
as
Hiroyuki Nagato
as
Middle-aged man
Kumiko Akiyoshi
as
Yukie Shimokawa
Eiichi Kudô
Director
Masao Oda
as
Minoru Ôki
as
Gohei
Masahiro Shinoda
Director
Kimiko Yo
as
Hiroyuki Sanada
as
Tonbo
Shirô Sano
as
Utamaro
Masahiko Nishimura
as
Michiko Hada
as
Komachi
Shôhei Imamura
Director
Chikako Hosokawa
as
Rentarô Mikuni
as
Nekichi Futori / the chained son
