Heroic Purgatory
Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pretending to be the father, comes to get her back; Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her parents. Through this disruption, Rikiya suddenly starts remembering his youth as a revolutionary.
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.
Amai yoru no hate
An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.
Chi wa kawaiteru
An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own advantage by turning the incident into an advertising campaign. With the success of the campaign, however, he is no longer a desperate man pointing a gun to his head, but a potential leader who wishes to take advantage of his failed suicide.
Eros + Massacre
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.
Flame and Women
Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by artificial insemination.
Akitsu Springs
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
Coup d'Etat
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
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Yoshishige Yoshida
Director
Takeshi Ôbayashi
as
Tatsuo Kobayashi
as
Kaneko Iwasaki
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Atsuko
Mariko Okada
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Nanako
Masahiko Tsugawa
as
Jun
Masao Mishima
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Kensaku Kitajima
Isao Sasaki
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Singer
Yûsuke Kawazu
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Toshio
Sumiko Hidaka
as
Hisako Noshimoto
Takamaru Sasaki
as
Tokkuzaburo Oka
Ichirô Sugai
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Hiroshi Takemura
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Masao Oda
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Kanai
Yûko Kusunoki
as
Itsuko Masaoka
Daijirô Harada
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Wada
Aoi Nakajima
as
Kakuko Chino
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Jûkichi Uno
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Kenkichi Matsumiya
Teruo Yoshida
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News reporter
Eijirô Tôno
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Priest
Shintarô Nanjô
as
Masao Imafuku
as
Rentarô Mikuni
as
Kazuki Kitamura / Ikki Kita
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