Hideo Kidokoro

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.

背徳のメス

Yoshitaro Nomura

Takahiro Tamura, Hizuru Takachiho

Pale Flower

Masahiro Shinoda

Ryō Ikebe, Mariko Kaga

Muraki, a hardboiled Yakuza gangster, has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder. Revisiting his old gambling haunts, he meets Saeko, a striking young upper-class woman who is out seeking thrills, and whose presence adds spice to the staid masculine underworld rituals. Muraki becomes her mentor while simultaneously coping with the shifts of power that have affected the gangs while he was interred. When he notices a rogue, drug-addicted young punk hanging around the gambling dens, he realizes that Saeko's insatiable lust for intense pleasures may be leading her to self-destruction.

Pigs and Battleships

Shōhei Imamura

Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

Assassination

Masahiro Shinoda

Tetsurō Tamba, Eiji Okada

Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.

Cruel Story of Youth

Nagisa Ōshima

Yūsuke Kawazu, Miyuki Kuwano

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

Bitter End of a Sweet Night

Yoshishige Yoshida

Michiko Saga, Masahiko Tsugawa

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

山の讃歌　燃ゆる若者たち

Masahiro Shinoda

Takahiro Tamura, Tamotsu Hayakawa

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.

七人の刑事

Yoshikazu Ōtsuki

Yûji Hori, Shinsuke Ashida

Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out for a drive, the strangled corpse of a call girl is discovered in Toyamagahara. Chief Akagi, Detective Sergeant Sawada, and the other detectives begin to suspect Koji during their investigation. Koji insists he's innocent, but has no evidence to prove it. Even when detectives come to Miyoko's home and workplace and her coworkers begin to look down on her, Miyoko continues to trust and love Koji...