Edo Porn
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
Red Lion
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.
Sanmon yakusha
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.
The Ceremony
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
The Scent of Incense. Part 1
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
Wedding Ring
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
A Last Note
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring various stories and news of death and the past
The Island Closest to Heaven
A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.
The Naked Island
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
The Three Treasures
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.
Onibaba
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.
Miss Oyu
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.
Black Cat
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
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Kaneto Shindô
Director
Kunio Ôtsuka
as
Yûko Tanaka
as
Oei, Tetsuzo's Daughter
Nobuko Otowa
as
Omomo, Sashichi's Wife
Kanako Higuchi
as
Onao
Kihachi Okamoto
Director
Toshirô Mifune
as
Gonzo
Kawai Okada
as
Osode
Takahiro Tamura
as
Sozo Sagara
Nagisa Ôshima
Director
Kei Satô
as
Sakurada Kazuomi, Grandfather
Kenzô Kawarasaki
as
Sakurada Masuo
Atsuo Nakamura
as
Tachibana Terumichi
Keisuke Kinoshita
Director
Yoshio Inaba
as
Eiji Okada
as
Eijirô Yanagi
as
Hotel owner
Mitsuko Yoshikawa
as
Jûkichi Uno
as
Michio Kuki
Yutaka Matsushige
as
Daigoro
Mitsuko Baishô
as
Naoko Yazawa
Masahiko Tsugawa
as
Saburo Morimoto
Miyoko Akaza
as
Keiko Murata
Tomoyo Harada
as
Mari Katsuragi
Tôru Minegishi
as
Yuuichi Fukaya
Taiji Tonoyama
as
Senta, the father
Setsuko Hara
as
Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess
Eijirô Tôno
as
Ootomo
Hiroshi Tanaka
as
Horse Riding Samurai B
Eitarô Shindô
as
Kusaemon
Yûji Hori
as
Shinnosuke Seribashi
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