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.
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.
Fukurô
A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to stray to their cabin with sex, and kill them. All goes well until a local cop shows up and, then, an old relation.
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 Naked Island
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
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.
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
Naomasa Musaka
as
Daijirô Harada
as
Akira Emoto
as
Yutaka Matsushige
as
Plumber's Boss
Mitsuko Baishô
as
Naoko Yazawa
Masahiko Tsugawa
as
Saburo Morimoto
Masanori Horimoto
as
Jirô - the younger son
Taiji Tonoyama
as
Senta, the father
Hiroshi Tanaka
as
Horse Riding Samurai B
Jûkichi Uno
as
Samurai General
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