Snow Trail
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.
Ninja hichô: Fukurô no shiro
Movie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the 'Taiko' becomes the target of an assassination attempt to be carried out by the Iga Clan of ninja spies. Master spy Juzo Tsuzura (Ryutaro Otomo) is assigned the task, but first he must defeat a former Iga spy who has become a traitor, and outwit the treacherous woman that is trying to seduce him.
Till We Meet Again
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
Battle Troop
Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques. Mikami is posted as a staff officer at a base on an island in the Pacific. Kawakami and Murakami later joins him as the base squardron is reinforced. The enemy task force approaches the island and all three of them attack the fleet, killing themselves in the process.
Sansho the Bailiff
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.
Adventures of Zatoichi
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother, who has murdered someone at about the same time and place as the missing man was last seen.
Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
No Regrets for Our Youth
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her own path in pre- and post-WWII Japan.
Ken
Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa, a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish nature. With the national championships fast approaching, the pair clash as Kokubu drives his students with increasingly rigorous training and Kagawa tests Kokubu's grip on the class.
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a hostile checkpoint.
Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two
A few years after his breakthrough, Sanshiro resumes his path to judo mastery—testing his discipline against an American prizefighter and later facing vengeful karate brothers. As rival schools and public spectacle push him toward violence, he must reconcile strength with restraint and the true spirit of his art.
Sanshiro Sugata
A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujutsu bravado for discipline and humility. As Sanshirō matures, he proves judo’s spirit against old-guard challengers—including a deadly duel—while falling for his vanquished opponent’s daughter.
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
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Senkichi Taniguchi
Director
Taizô Fukami
as
Chief Detective
Toshirô Mifune
as
Eijima
Kokuten Kôdô
as
Haruko's Grandfather
Masao Oda
as
Minoru Ôki
as
Gohei
Chôichirô Kawarasaki
as
Kumotaro
Tadashi Imai
Director
Yoshie Minami
as
Hiroshi Kondô
as
Saburo's friend
Eiji Okada
as
Tajima Saburo
Masahiko Tsugawa
as
Young Zushio
Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Director
Eiko Taki
as
Sen
Yûzô Kawashima
Director
Kenjirô Uemura
as
Chôbei - Ohisa's father
Izumi Ashikawa
as
Ohisa, the maid
Akira Kurosawa
Director
Eiko Miyoshi
as
Madame Yagihara, the prodessor's wife
Setsuko Hara
as
Yukie Yagihara
Raizô Ichikawa
as
Jiro Kokubun
Yûsuke Kawazu
as
Kagawa
Yoshio Inaba
as
Seiichiro Kokubun
Dekao Yokoo
as
Hidachibo
Sôji Kiyokawa
as
Togashi's Messenger
Ryûnosuke Tsukigata
as
Gennosuke Higaki
Seiji Miyaguchi
as
Kohei Tsuzaki
Ranko Hanai
as
Osumi Kodana
Masaki Kobayashi
Director
Eijirô Tôno
as
Masao Mishima
as
Kuroki Shochô
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