Hope and Pain
The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.
Cabaret
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.
Zatoichi and the Doomed Man
Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to death. Zatoichi is reluctant to get involved, because he knows how often such involvement has led to trouble in the past. But events conspire to thrust him repeatedly into involvement, and gradually he comes to believe in the man's innocence and determines to free him.
Mind Game
Nishi is a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place.
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Yôji Yamada
Director
Toshinori Omi
as
Arles, Sadaichi Takai
Takeshi Katô
as
Chief of police
Hiroko Yakushimaru
as
Fusako Nakahara
Takashi Sasano
as
Yakuza boss
Mitsuko Baishô
as
Megumi Nanbu
Hiroyuki Sanada
as
Tanokura
Shin'ichi Chiba
as
Yakuza boss
Kenjirô Ishiyama
as
Boss Jubei Araiso
Kôichi Mizuhara
as
Shimazo Kitase
Ryûzô Shimada
as
Yakuza boss
Eiko Taki
as
Yone
Kôji Morimoto
Director
Takashi Fujii
as
Jiisan
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