Stolen Desire
A rambunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.
Samaritan Zatoichi
Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituting herself) to pay his debts. The bosses true motives are revealed and he attempts to steal Osode even though the debt is paid. Zatoichi realizes his grievous error and protects the girl from the gang. Osode and Zatoichi are caught in a dilemma as she must rely on her brother's killer for protection and Zatoichi wrestles with the injustice he has caused.
Intimidation
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
Ballad of the Cart
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a geisha who was once involved with Kisuke's late father.
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.
The Burmese Harp
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
Peony Lantern
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her.
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his youth, offers protection to a forward-thinking physician Genan Sugino who has defamed his ruler, discovers a pleasure ring of young wives and a blind music teacher, and cuckolds a corrupt official under his very nose.
A Killer's Key
Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori's stylish 1967 thriller A Certain Killer.
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Shôhei Imamura
Director
Chigusa Takayama
as
Noboru Nakaya
as
Kô Nishimura
as
Kanji Takada
Hiroyuki Nagato
as
Shinichi Kunida
Shôsaku Sugiyama
as
Kinsuke
Chôchô Miyako
as
Ohaya
Ryûtarô Gomi
as
Sashichi
Nobuo Kaneko
as
Kyosuke Takita
Zenji Yamada
as
Ono
Mari Shiraki
as
Umeha
Yoshio Inaba
as
Fujitaro
Rentarô Mikuni
as
Moichi
Teruko Kishi
as
Mother-in-law
Kôichi Mizuhara
as
Ayako Wakao
as
Tamae
Takeshi Katô
as
Dr. Keisuke Munakata the Uncle of Yoshie
Yûko Kusunoki
as
Yoshie Munakata the Widow
Kon Ichikawa
Director
Kunitarô Sawamura
as
Old man
Miyoko Akaza
as
Otsuyu
Michiko Ôtsuka
as
Oyone
Keizô Kanie
as
Mamushi
Michiko Tsukasa
as
Wife
Raizô Ichikawa
as
Nitta
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