Peacock King
Coerced by the evil Witch Raga, Ashura, the Hell Virgin, attempts to unlock the four Earth holes that lead to the Gates of Hell. Together, Raga aims to control the Earth. However, two monks skilful in magical powers set off on a journey to the cities to obstruct Ashura from unlocking the gates and stop Raga. Otherwise, not only will control of the Earth be at stake, but the King of Hell will resurrect and darkness will overcome the world.
Zegen
At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level military adventurer, Iheiji sets up chains of brothels throughout Asia. As Japan's power in the region grows, so does Iheiji's prosperity and patriotism.
The Pillow Book
A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.
Zatoichi
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
Gyoei no mure
A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade's secrets.
Nagai sanpo
A lonely retired girl's High School Principal who's lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apartment in a country town. There he forms a relationship with a neglected little neighborhood girl.
Vengeance Is Mine
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
O-Roshiya-koku suimu-tan
Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.
Usugeshô
When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous crimes--or the detectives hot on his trail.
The Hidden Blade
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.
The Wicked
A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.
Samurai Banners
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?
The Demon
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.
Love and Honor
A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.
Dai yûkai
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place.
The Ballad of Narayama
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
Shogun's Shadow
A shogun's eldest son must do whatever it takes to survive a series of attempts on his life. He receives much-needed aid from seven warriors who are led by a strong leader.
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Biao Yuen
Director
Ken Boyle
as
Archeologist / Excavation leader
Ken Ogata
as
Jikû Ajari
Narumi Yasuda
as
Saeko Kazama
Shôhei Imamura
Director
Mami Kumagai
as
Kino
Chôichirô Kawarasaki
as
Kunikura
Mitsuko Baishô
as
Shiho
Peter Greenaway
Director
Ewan McGregor
as
Jerome
Hideko Yoshida
as
The Aunt / The Maid
Fumihiko Tachiki
as
Kanako Higuchi
as
Boss Han Bosatsu
Rikiya Yasuoka
as
Yôjinbô / Bodyguard
Shinji Sômai
Director
Yukiyo Toake
as
Aya
Kôichi Satô
as
Shunichi Ida
Eiji Okuda
Director
Masahiko Tsugawa
as
Kiwako Harada
as
Saki Takaoka
as
Sachi's mother
Kazuko Shirakawa
as
Sachiko Yoshizato
Yûji Ueda
as
Oleg Yankovskiy
as
Kirill Gustavovich Laksman
Takuzô Kawatani
as
Koichi
Hideo Gosha
Director
Shingo Yanagisawa
as
Hideyuki Akiga
Atsuko Asano
as
Teruko Jodokoro
Takashi Sasano
as
Jun Maeda
as
Hidetaka Yoshioka
as
Samon Shimada
Yoshio Inaba
as
Keiko Matsuzaka
as
Takako, fashion designer
Toshirô Mifune
as
Kansuke Yamamoto
Masakazu Tamura
as
Nobushige Takeda
Yoshiko Sakuma
as
Princess Yufu
Keizô Kanie
as
Akutsu, Sôkichi's colleague
Mizuho Suzuki
as
Detective
Kunie Tanaka
as
Policeman
Kaori Momoi
as
Ine Hatano
Takuya Kimura
as
Shinnojo Mimura
Kihachi Okamoto
Director
Nami Tamura
as
Eiko Yanagawa, 2nd daughter
Tôru Kazama
as
Lightning
Raita Ryû
as
Sakuma
Fujio Tokita
as
Jinsaku
Shin'ichi Chiba
as
Iba Shoemon
Sayoko Ninomiya
as
Oman no Kata
Hiroyuki Nagato
as
Tagaya Rokubee
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