Good-for-Nothing
Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothing" from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.
The Sun's Burial
In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.
This Transient Life
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.
Pale Flower
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
Space Battleship Yamato
In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a capsule sent from the planet Iscandar that tells of a device that can remove the radiation from the Earth's surface. The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year, the radiation will drive the rest of humanity to extinction.
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Yoshishige Yoshida
Director
Masahiko Tsugawa
as
Jun
Masao Mishima
as
Kensaku Kitajima
Isao Sasaki
as
Singer
Yûsuke Kawazu
as
Toshio
Nagisa Ôshima
Director
Ichirô Nagai
as
The 'lance'
Masahiro Shinoda
Director
Seiji Miyaguchi
as
Gang leader
Eijirô Tôno
as
Gang Leader
Mariko Kaga
as
Saeko
Takashi Yamazaki
Director
Kazuki Kitamura
as
Tsutomu Yamazaki
as
Juzo Okita
Marika Matsumoto
as
M. Nishina
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Akio Jissôji
