Dry Lake
A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the height of student protests, Shimojo takes his aggressions to another level, beset by seemingly insoluble feelings of alienation.
Ibo kyoudai
In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946. Winner of the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and together they travel to find the baby's father. But they do not reckon on the father's reaction to their arrival, nor on their own growing feelings for the child.
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Masahiro Shinoda
Director
Reiko Minakami
as
Sadako Sawamura
as
Aki Katsura
Hizuru Takachiho
as
Fumie Sono
Kayoko Honoo
as
Setsuko Kitamura
Rentarô Mikuni
as
Hantaro Kido
Tomo'o Nagai
as
The regimental commander
Katsuo Nakamura
as
Tomohide, the fourth son
Kôji Fujiyama
as
Shôsaku Sugiyama
as
Hangoro
Nobuo Kaneko
as
Unosuke
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