Heroic Purgatory
Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pretending to be the father, comes to get her back; Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her parents. Through this disruption, Rikiya suddenly starts remembering his youth as a revolutionary.
The Shadow Within
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.
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.
Hitori okami
Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his brilliant talent in gambling. One late fall at an inn in Kiso Fukushima, Isazo befriends a young boy whose mother turns out to be his old love Yoshino, with whom he was not unable to consummate a marriage due to the class differences between them.
Sandakan No. 8
A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.
Sôshun monogatari
A Japanese high school student passionate with photography discovers love while confronting the past choices of her dead mother.
Tora-san's Rise and Fall
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora-san.
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhile, his luck with dice is turning.
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
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Yoshishige Yoshida
Director
Takeshi Ôbayashi
as
Tatsuo Kobayashi
as
Kaneko Iwasaki
as
Atsuko
Mariko Okada
as
Nanako
Yoshio Inaba
as
Shinsuke Ashida
as
Yoshino Tani
as
Ichirô Sugai
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Hiroshi Takemura
as
Masao Oda
as
Kanai
Ryûtarô Gomi
as
Tatsuo Endô
as
Raizô Ichikawa
as
Isazo
Kei Kumai
Director
Takashi Ebata
as
Murata
Chigusa Takayama
as
Tomi
Hideo Sunazuka
as
Yajima
Tomoyo Harada
as
Hitomi Okino
Kunie Tanaka
as
Okino, Hitomi's father
Eiji Funakoshi
as
Kenjiro Hyodo
Ruriko Asaoka
as
Lily
Hisao Dazai
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Umetaro
Fujio Suga
as
Injury prone Banyu yakuza
Masaki Kobayashi
Director
Kenjirô Uemura
as
Bannai Jôtôhei
Yûsuke Kawazu
as
Terada Nitôhei
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