Anatahan
From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.
Dodes'ka-den
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.
Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song
Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they discover they both have a score to settle with a particular crooked cop. However, Nami has doubts about ever trusting a man.
Lady Karuizawa
A university student travels to a popular resort in the mountains for a summer job as a waiter and becomes romantically involved with an older woman from a wealthy family.
No More Easy Life
Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of her time balancing boyfriends and part-time jobs than on her schoolwork. She finds herself torn between a former boyfriend who's the tough, insensitive-but-sexy, type, and a new acquaintance who's more sensitive to her feelings, but who still acts childishly selfish at times. Will she choose one of them, or decide to go her own way?
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.
Distant Thunder
A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.
Sudden Rain
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
I Live in Fear
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared incompetent, a family-court counselor witnesses his obsession slide into ruin—and asks whether ignoring the atomic threat is any saner.
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.
King Kong vs. Godzilla
When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they bargained for when the gigantic ape attacks an unsuspecting village and an enormous octopus.
Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
Sex & Fury
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shonusuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa and Christina, an American spy posing as a gambler.
The Makioka Sisters
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.
King Kong vs. Godzilla
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.
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Josef von Sternberg
Director
Akemi Negishi
as
Keiko Kusakabe, the 'Queen Bee'
Hiroshi Kondô
as
Yanaginuma
Akira Kurosawa
Director
Yûko Kusunoki
as
Misao Sawagami
Kiyoko Tange
as
Mrs. Shima
Michiko Araki
as
Restaurant proprietress
Kotoe Hatsui
as
Tome Kudô
Masakazu Tamura
as
Yasuo Kudo
Toshihiko Oda
as
Takayuki Godai
as
Junichi / Keiko's lover
Toshiyuki Kitami
as
Masakazu Okazaki
Yôichi Higashi
Director
Eiji Okuda
as
Hashimoto
Kaori Momoi
as
Mariko
Akira Takahashi
as
Father of Ayako
Rie Yokoyama
as
Kaede
Mikio Naruse
Director
Setsuko Hara
as
Fumiko
Haruko Tôgô
as
Rin Ameyama
Fuyuki Murakami
as
Taneda
Toshirô Mifune
as
Kiichi Nakajima
Eijirô Tôno
as
Old man from Brazil
Hiroshi Tachikawa
as
Ryoichi Sayama
Toshiya Fujita
Director
Eiji Okada
as
Gishirô Tsukamoto
Toshio Kurosawa
as
Ryûrei Ashio
Miyoko Akaza
as
Sayo Kashima
Byron Morrow
as
Les Tremayne
as
Commander Roberts / General Shinzo / Narrator
Robert Dunham
as
US Navy Pilot
Tsutomu Yamazaki
as
Sahachi
Naomi Oka
as
Okoi
Ryôko Ema
as
Omiya
Seizaburô Kawazu
as
Yoshikazu Kurokawa
Kon Ichikawa
Director
Yoshiko Sakuma
as
Sachiko Makioka
Jun Hashizume
as
Soldier on train
Sayuri Yoshinaga
as
Yukiko Makioka
Tadao Takashima
as
Osamu Sakurai
Haruya Katô
as
Pacific Pharmaceuticals advertising department employee
Harold Conway
as
United Nations correspondent on Seahawk
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