Konoko no nanatsu no oiwai ni
Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for revenge. All intertwined with the investigation of journalists into local murders, the manipulations of a palmist known as the “blue moth”, and political corruption.
Crazy Thunder Road
When Ken, the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo, falls in love with a barmaid, he quickly loses his rebellious ideals. The rest of the gang feels betrayed, especially the reputedly troubled kid Jin who revolts against his former friend.
Café Lumière
In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.
Street Mobster
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.
Lonely Heart
Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche, or is she real?
A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen
Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old cedar tree on distant Yakushima Island. Through his journey, Daisuke meets a number of interesting people, including friendly truck driver Sumire and a mysterious mountaineer girl.
Sôshun monogatari
A Japanese high school student passionate with photography discovers love while confronting the past choices of her dead mother.
The Seburi Story
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military police come to take Seburi men away into the army. Still following their own customs that can be harsh at times, and are particularly cruel to women (women must give birth alone and unaided, a woman's adultery is punished by burying her up to her neck in the earth and then leaving her for days), the Seburi are mainly treated with fear and animosity by the non-Seburi townspeople of the region. Along with the hardships arising from cultural clashes, nature's own vagaries present other challenges to the Seburi -- who still lived in tents until the 1950s. Winter avalanches and snowstorms cause as much havoc as the tensions engendered by the slow encroachment of the modern world.
The Ballad of Narayama
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
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Yasuzô Masumura
Director
Nenji Kobayashi
as
Detective Akutsu
Shigeru Kôyama
as
Kashiwabara
Hitomi Nakahara
as
Masayo
Jinpachi Nezu
as
Sudo
Tadanobu Asano
as
Hajime Takeuchi
Masato Hagiwara
as
Seiji
Kimiko Yo
as
Yôko no keiba
Kinji Fukasaku
Director
Bunta Sugawara
as
Isamu Okita
Kôji Fujiyama
as
Prisoner
Keijirô Morozumi
as
Takigawa
Toshinori Omi
as
Hiroki Inoue
Tôru Minegishi
as
Kazuo's father
Toshie Negishi
as
Makoto's mother
Takashi Sasano
as
Yûta Kanai
as
Daisuke Kawashima
Hidekazu Akai
as
Yasu Sasaki
Tomoyo Harada
as
Hitomi Okino
Kaneko Iwasaki
as
Mrs. Takenaka
Kunie Tanaka
as
Okino, Hitomi's father
Ai Saotome
as
Hana
Ken Mitsuishi
as
Jiro
Takashi Naitô
as
Kazuo
Shôhei Imamura
Director
Fujio Tokita
as
Jinsaku
Mitsuko Baishô
as
Oei
Ken Ogata
as
Tatsuhei
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