Kazuko Imai

Story of a Prostitute

Seijun Suzuki

Tamio Kawachi, Yumiko Nogawa

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

The Castle of Sand

Yoshitaro Nomura

Tetsurō Tamba, Gō Katō

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murderer of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a rail yard.

Ohaka to rikon

Ryō Iwamatsu

Kaoru Kobayashi, Yoshiko Tanaka

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male friend at her leather-working class, Yoshinori has a fit. This is on top of the myriad of odd clients that he must appease.

遠い一本の道

Sachiko Hidari

Hisashi Igawa, Sachiko Hidari

Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker in the northern part of Japan. The ferocious local class restrictions work to keep her husband in his place, as does his lack of education.

木村家の人びと

Yojiro Takita

Takeshi Kaga, Kaori Momoi

Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of a strange family that works together to accumulate a small amount of money, while mixing irony and satire.

北斎漫画

Kaneto Shindō

Ken Ogata, Toshiyuki Nishida

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.

日本一短い「母」への手紙

Shinichirô Sawai

Yukiyo Toake, Nae Yuuki

A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.

混血児リカ

Kō Nakahira

Rika Aoki, Kazuko Nagamoto

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.

クレオパトラ

Eiichi Yamamoto, Osamu Tezuka

Chinatsu Nakayama, Hajime Hana

Three people from the future, who travel spiritually to the era of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII Philopator and her Roman lovers Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, become their closest friends as they try to unravel the nature of the plan developed in their own time by a sinister enemy.

きけ、わだつみの声

Masanobu Deme

Yuji Oda, Koji Matoba

Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to benefit their loved ones back home, they are unprepared for the hardships of war. Through their shared trials and sacrifices, they grow closer as friends, and hope to return together to better days. This movie was released in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII.

世にも奇妙な物語 豪華キャストで贈る 09春の特別編

Tamori, Hayato Ichihara

難病「再生不良貧血性」と闘う　君はいま光のなかに

Kenji Yoshida

Tomoko Ogawa, Ryuto Kadoya

Film distributed by ATG.

ＢＧ、ある１９才の日記　あげてよかった！

Yuji Tanno

Keiko Nishioka, Tomoko Hamakawa

Story of a nineteen-year-old office girl who loses her virginity.