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.
Shield of Straw
Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru. Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing.
Departures
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.
The Emperor in August
In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nights, but a decision cannot be made. The U.S. drops atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. General Korechika Anami is torn over making the proper decision and the Emperor of Japan worries about his people. Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki leads the cabinet meeting, while Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu can't do anything, but watch the meeting. At this time, Major Kenji Hatanaka and other young commissioned officers, who are against Japan surrendering, move to occupy the palace and a radio broadcasting station. The radio station is set to broadcast Emperor Hirohito reading out the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War.
Tampopo
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
As the Gods Will
High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat.
High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.
Go
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.
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Akira Kurosawa
Director
Toshirô Mifune
as
Dr. Kyojô Niide
Eijirô Tôno
as
Goheiji
Akemi Negishi
as
Okuni, the mistress
Tsutomu Yamazaki
as
Sahachi
Takashi Miike
Director
Takuma Otoo
as
Kimiko Yo
as
Chikako Yuri
Tarô Suwa
as
Taxi Driver
Yôjirô Takita
Director
Yukiko Tachibana
as
Tôru Minegishi
as
Yoshiki Kobayashi
Masato Harada
Director
Masahiro Motoki
as
Emperor Showa
Tôri Matsuzaka
as
Hatanaka, army major
Hajime Inoue
as
Soemu Toyoda
Ken Watanabe
as
Gun
Rikiya Yasuoka
as
Pisuken
Masahiko Tsugawa
as
Supermarket manager
Nijirô Murakami
as
Dôri Sakurada
as
Class 2-B President
Masao Oda
as
First Executor at Tax Office
Yû Shimaka
as
Jingoro Hara
Kaori Momoi
as
Otsuyanokata
Mitsuko Baishô
as
Oyunokata
Kanji Tsuda
as
Henchman of Kato's father
Sarutoki Minagawa
as
Policeman
Ko Shibasaki
as
Sakurai Tsubaki
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