Seijirô Onda

眠狂四郎無頼控

Shigeaki Hidaka

Koji Tsuruta, Seizaburō Kawazu

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

姿なき目撃者

Shigeaki Hidaka

Hiroshi Koizumi, Fubuki Koshiji

Japanese crime film

港へ来た男

Ishirō Honda

Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura

An Ishiro Honda film.

Throne of Blood

Akira Kurosawa

Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

恋化粧

Ishirō Honda

Ryō Ikebe, Hiroshi Koizumi

An Ishiro Honda film.

浮雲

Mikio Naruse

Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

ゴジラ

Ishirō Honda

Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.

宮本武蔵

Hiroshi Inagaki

Toshirō Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

天晴れ一番手柄 青春銭形平次

Kon Ichikawa

Tomoemon Otani, Yūnosuke Itō

驟雨

Mikio Naruse

Setsuko Hara, Shūji Sano

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Fighting Elegy

Seijun Suzuki

Hideki Takahashi, Yūsuke Kawazu

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.

太平洋の鷲

Ishirō Honda

Denjirō Ōkōchi, Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.

哀愁の街に霧が降る

Shigeaki Hidaka

Shinji Yamada, Kyōko Aoyama

私は貝になりたい

Yoshihiko Okamoto

Frankie Sakai, Mutsuko Sakura

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. According to the accusation by GHQ, Toyomatsu "attemped to kill a US prisoner", which was nothing but an order by his superior and failed after all with hurting the prisoner by weak Toyomatsu. Also, Toyomatsu was driven to corner at the trial by the fact that he fed the US prisoner some burdock roots to nourish him. Toyomatsu believes nothing but being not guilty, but he is sentenced to death by hanging. Prior to the execution, Toyomatsu writes a long farewell letter to his family, the wife and the only son: "If I ever incarnate, I hate to be a human being any more.... Oh yes, I would like to be...a shellfish living on the rock-bottom of the sea."

透明人間

Motoyoshi Oda

Seizaburō Kawazu, Miki Sanjo

When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.

旅路

Hiroshi Inagaki

Ryō Ikebe, Mariko Okada

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at sento (public baths) too. The handwritten text on the bottom here announces the film will play at Hassen for 3 days.