Tamotsu Tamura

人間の條件　第３部望郷篇／第４部戦雲篇

Masaki Kobayashi

Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.

修羅

Toshio Matsumoto

Katsuo Nakamura, Juro Kara

Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin against the Shogunate. His faithful servant gathers the 100 ryo required for his acceptance. Gengobe is also in love with a greedy geisha named Koman. About to be sold to another man, Gengobe learns that for him to keep her, her debt is exactly 100 ryo.

黒い河

Masaki Kobayashi

Fumio Watanabe, Ineko Arima

The story follows a university student who moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.

Akitsu Springs

Yoshishige Yoshida

Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.

Maiko to ansatsusha

Kenji Misumi

Miwa Takada, Masahiko Tsugawa

無宿人御子神の丈吉 黄昏に閃光が飛んだ

Kazuo Ikehiro

Yoshio Harada, Hajime Araki

In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter, has not yet fully revenged the death of his wife and son. He searches for Kunisada Chuji, who in turn has hired the knife-throwing Windmill Kobunji to kill him. Kobunji and Jokichi meet in the winter, near Sasago Pass, when both have rescued women: Jokichi has saved the lute-playing Oyae whose clan and whose lover want her dead; Kobunji has rescued Oharu, a well-born woman married to an innkeeper. Is this rescue a whim or something deeper? And why does Jokichi become the consumptive Kobunji's protector? What ultimately will Jokichi do about Oyae?

太陽とバラ

Keisuke Kinoshita

Akira Ishihama, Katsuo Nakamura

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

混血児リカ ハマぐれ子守唄

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Rika Aoki, Jiro Kawarazaki

Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from corrupt reform schools? Rica could be considered a bit of an expert on reform schools, having spent most of her early life in and out of them. When Rica is dragged back once again, she gets a severe beating and is finally sent off to a mental hospital with the intention of selling her and her pals into a slave trade. A trader takes Rica's friend Jun to a mountain cottage where she's pegged for the lead in his clandestine porno film operation. Once again, it's up to tough-as-nails Rica to bust up this corrupt racket once and for all!

彼女に向って突進せよ

Hirokazu Ichimura

Teruo Yoshida, Kōji Matsubara

Japanese comedy film.

口笛を吹く無宿者

Daisuke Yamazaki

Kinya Kitaoji, Hiroki Matsukata

Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.

新二等兵物語　敵中横断の巻

Seiichi Fukuda

Junzaburō Ban, Achako Hanabishi

First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".