Apostasy
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
Sword of the Beast
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
Umi no hanabi
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
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Keisuke Kinoshita
Director
Eijirô Tôno
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Kappei Matsumoto
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Jûkichi Uno
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Ginnosuke Tuchiya
Ichirô Sugai
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Keinosuke Kazama
Hideo Gosha
Director
Takeshi Katô
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Kunie Tanaka
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Tanji
Mitsuko Baishô
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Omatsu
Yoshio Inaba
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Seizô
Keiko Matsuzaka
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Shino
Takahiro Tamura
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Chishû Ryû
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Masao - Age 73
Isuzu Yamada
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Kaoru Uozumi
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