Black River
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.
Eight Hours of Terror
A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
Hiroshima
Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its effects on various civilians, especially children, of that city.
Spring Dreams
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who is to be sold into prostitution.
Chi wa kawaiteru
An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own advantage by turning the incident into an advertising campaign. With the success of the campaign, however, he is no longer a desperate man pointing a gun to his head, but a potential leader who wishes to take advantage of his failed suicide.
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.
An Autumn Afternoon
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
The Ballad of Narayama
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?
Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
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Masaki Kobayashi
Director
Masao Oda
as
Eijirô Tôno
as
Kurihara
Isuzu Yamada
as
Landlady
Tomo'o Nagai
as
Okada
Seijun Suzuki
Director
Nobuo Kaneko
as
Kosaku Mori
Keiko Shima
as
Sumie Akutsu
Sumiko Minami
as
Tokie Murakami
Keisuke Kinoshita
Director
Yûsuke Kawazu
as
Mamoru Okudaira
Michiko Araki
as
Yae
Yoshio Inaba
as
Yamada
Tomu Uchida
Director
Ryûnosuke Tsukigata
as
Chiezô Kataoka
as
Gonpachi
Unpei Yokoyama
as
Yomosuke, Otane's father
Yoshishige Yoshida
Director
Ichirô Sugai
as
Hiroshi Takemura
as
Kaneko Iwasaki
as
Ikuyo
Minoru Ôki
as
Gohei
Chôichirô Kawarasaki
as
Kumotaro
Yasujirô Ozu
Director
Shinobu Asaji
as
Youko Sasaki, hisho
Teruo Yoshida
as
Yutaka Miura
Danko Ichikawa
as
Kesakichi
Seiji Miyaguchi
as
Mata-yan
Yûzô Kawashima
Director
Kenjirô Uemura
as
Chôbei - Ohisa's father
Izumi Ashikawa
as
Ohisa, the maid
Akira Kurosawa
Director
Tsutomu Yamazaki
as
Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern
Toshirô Mifune
as
Kingo Gondo
Mikio Naruse
Director
Chikako Hosokawa
as
Hideko Takamine
as
Keiko Yashiro
Hideo Sekigawa
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