In 1863, when Americans warships approach Japan, a enigmatic ronin becomes a important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire. Year 1964.
| Generes: Action, Drama |
| Director: Masahiro Shinoda |
| Writer: Ryôtarô Shiba, Nobuo Yamada |
| Actors: Tetsurô Tanba, Shima Iwashita, Eiji Okada |
A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband. Year 1958.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama |
| Director: Yasujirô Ozu |
| Writer: Ton Satomi, Yasujirô Ozu, Kôgo Noda |
| Actors: Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima |
During W.W. II, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British P.O.W. and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid blood-shed. Year 1983.
| Generes: Drama, War |
| Director: Nagisa Ôshima |
| Writer: Lourens van der Post, Nagisa Ôshima, Paul Mayersberg |
| Actors: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto |
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi’s great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his former fellow so Year 1965.
| Generes: Action, Drama |
| Director: Tomu Uchida |
| Writer: Naoyuki Suzuki, Tomu Uchida, Eiji Yoshikawa |
| Actors: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Ken Takakura, Wakaba Irie |
A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa’s recurring dreams. Year 1990.
| Generes: Drama, Fantasy |
| Director: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda |
| Writer: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda |
| Actors: Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baishô, Toshie Negishi |
The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan. Year 1969.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Toshio Matsumoto |
| Writer: Toshio Matsumoto |
| Actors: Pîtâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshimi Jô |
The hero Saburo (Okada Eiji) is obstructed by a series of events from meeting Keiko (Kuga Yoshiko), his fiancee. Year 1950.
| Generes: Drama, History |
| Director: Tadashi Imai |
| Writer: Yôko Mizuki, Toshio Yasumi |
| Actors: Yoshiko Kuga, Eiji Okada, Osamu Takizawa |
A man falls in love with the widow of a man he killed in a car accident. Eventually she falls in love with him in return. Year 1967.
| Generes: Drama, Romance |
| Director: Mikio Naruse |
| Writer: Nobuo Yamada |
| Actors: Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa, Mitsuko Kusabue |
An engineer’s wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and realit Year 1970.
| Generes: Drama, Fantasy |
| Director: Yoshishige Yoshida |
| Writer: Masahiro Yamada |
| Actors: Mariko Okada, Kaizo Kamoda, Kazumi Tsutsui |
A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor’s life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn’t destroy others along with him. Year 1949.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Akira Kurosawa |
| Writer: Kazuo Kikuta, Akira Kurosawa, Senkichi Taniguchi |
| Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjô |
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town. Year 1961.
| Generes: Action, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Akira Kurosawa |
| Writer: Akira Kurosawa, Ryûzô Kikushima |
| Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai |
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly getting into difficult situations, but never loses his positive mood. Year 1975.
| Generes: Comedy |
| Director: Luciano Salce |
| Writer: Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Luciano Salce |
| Actors: Paolo Villaggio, Anna Mazzamauro, Gigi Reder |
An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention. Year 1953.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Yasujirô Ozu |
| Writer: Kôgo Noda, Yasujirô Ozu |
| Actors: Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura |
Musashi Miyamoto returns to Kyoto after years of absence. After a series of fights against the Yoshioka School, he challenges its master to a duel. Year 1955.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Biography |
| Director: Hiroshi Inagaki |
| Writer: Hideji Hôjô, Hiroshi Inagaki, Tokuhei Wakao |
| Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta |
In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation. Year 1959.
| Generes: Drama, War |
| Director: Kon Ichikawa |
| Writer: Shohei Ooka, Natto Wada |
| Actors: Eiji Funakoshi, Mantarô Ushio, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi |
A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Year 1967.
| Generes: Action, Comedy |
| Director: Kihachi Okamoto |
| Writer: Ei Ogawa, Kihachi Okamoto, Michio Tsuzuki |
| Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Reiko Dan, Hideo Sunazuka |