Akiko Kazami

花の宴

Hirokazu Ichimura

Jin Nakayama, Shirō Amakusa

Melodrama about the life of an unfortunate composer of the Meiji era, Rentaro Taki, who became known only after his death.

月よりの母

Yutaka Abe

Ken Uehara, Asami Kuji

Japanese drama film.

Nankai no okami

Shoji Matsumura

Hiroki Matsukata, Hiromi Hanazono

Namie's back in trouble, after getting snatched by an evil gang in search of the treasure. Kirimaru sets out to rescue his sweetheart and falls in with a band of pirates also hunting the hidden stash.

ハヴァ、ナイスデー

Kenji Yamauchi, Asako Hyuga

Sayuri Oyamada, Go Ayano

Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa ("Yoru no Picnic"), Masaya Kakehi ("Bijokan), and more for a total of 18 shorts. This time around the theme is "24 hours," where filming for each work must have been completed in 24 hours in order to appear in this film.

Red Beard

Akira Kurosawa

Toshirō Mifune, Yûzô Kayama

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

Run, Genta, Run!

Tomotaka Tasaka

Ineko Arima, Michiyo Kogure

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.

A Fugitive from the Past

Tomu Uchida

Rentaro Mikuni, Sachiko Hidari

Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.

めし

Mikio Naruse

Ken Uehara, Setsuko Hara

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

湖の琴

Tomotaka Tasaka

Yoshiko Sakuma, Katsuo Nakamura

A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen strings, only to find her peaceful life turned upside down when a master musician takes personal interest in her.

忘れられぬ人々

Makoto Shinozaki

Tatsuya Mihashi, Minoru Oki

Three WWII veterans, reunited by family circumstances, quickly find their life savings threatened by a private corporation; they band together to fight back.

小原庄助さん

Hiroshi Shimizu

Denjirō Ōkōchi, Akiko Kazami

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he is on the brink of bankruptcy. Around town he is better known by his nickname Mr. Shosuke Ohara.

土

Tomu Uchida

Isamu Kosugi, Akiko Kazami

Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.

どたんば

Tomu Uchida

Takashi Shimura, Shinjirô Ehara

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.

転々

Satoshi Miki

Joe Odagiri, Tomokazu Miura

A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.

また逢う日まで

Tadashi Imai

Yoshiko Kuga, Eiji Okada

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

ハーメルン

Tsubokawa Takushi

Hidetoshi Nishijima, Chieko Baisho