The Sleeping Beast Within
A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the criminal underworld of Yokohama's Chinatown.
Dodes'ka-den
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.
Shinobi no mono: Shin kirigakure Saizô
[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge the death of Lord Sanada Yukimura. But first he must contend with Ieyasu’s own ninja group led by the powerful Fuma Daijuro, who has a score to settle with the men of Iga that dates back 280 years to the war between the Genji and the Heike at the Battle of Dan-no-Ura. Tremendous fighting and great plot twists highlight this exceptional look into the lives of the mysterious ninja of Japan.
Eros + Massacre
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.
Jukyusai no chizu
A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like them. Declaring himself a 'right-winger' and calling in bomb threats against the neighbors he doesn't like, the 19-year-old begins a war of psychological terror against the families in his neighborhood.
House of Terrors
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant and his niece) fail to heed the caretaker's warnings and are slaughtered horribly by the jealous occupants.
Intentions of Murder
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
Case of the Disjointed Murder
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity...
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.
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Akira Kurosawa
Director
Akemi Negishi
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Good-Looking Housewife
Yûko Kusunoki
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Misao Sawagami
Kiyoko Tange
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Mrs. Shima
Michiko Araki
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Restaurant proprietress
Kazuo Mori
Director
Takahiro Tamura
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Daijuro Fuma
Raizô Ichikawa
as
Saizo Kumogakure
Yoshishige Yoshida
Director
Mariko Okada
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Noe Ito
Daijirô Harada
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Wada
Kazuko Shirakawa
as
Tadao Nakamaru
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Detective
Hideko Okiyama
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Maria
Takeshi Katô
as
Dr. Keisuke Munakata the Uncle of Yoshie
Shôhei Imamura
Director
Hiroshi Kondô
as
Hiroko Isayama
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Chigusa Nagumo
Jun Izumi
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Shimoe
Akira Takahashi
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Hiroshi Tachikawa
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Nobuo Kaneko
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Inspector Kumagai
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