Takahiro Tamura

結婚式・結婚式

Noboru Nakamura

Mariko Okada, Shima Iwashita

からたち日記

Heinosuke Gosho

Hizuru Takachiho, Machiko Mizuhara

Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.

充たされた生活

Susumu Hani

Ineko Arima, Takahiro Tamura

A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.

湾岸ミッドナイト 3

Hajime Konaka

Gitan Ôtsuru, Ichiro Araki

祇園祭

Daisuke Itō, Tetsuya Yamanouchi

Kinnosuke Nakamura, Toshirō Mifune

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in peaceful celebration.

サンクチュアリ

Yukio Fuji

Toshiya Nagasawa, Hiroshi Abe

Akira Hojo and Chiaki Asami live different lives in Tokyo, Japan: Hojo is the leader of a small but rising Yakuza clan, while Asami is a politician aiming to become the youngest member of the Japanese parliament. But while they both live in different ways, Hojo and Asami share the same past; both of them were survivors of the Killing Fields of Cambodia. With the aggression and survival instincts they learned in the Cambodian jungles, Hojo and Asami strive in both the Yakuza and political world to reform Japan into their own sanctuary.

二十四の瞳

Keisuke Kinoshita

Hideko Takamine, Hideki Gôko

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world despite the fact that war is looming.

背徳のメス

Yoshitaro Nomura

Takahiro Tamura, Hizuru Takachiho

恍惚の人

Shiro Toyoda

Hisaya Morishige, Matsue Ono

A woman looks after her father in law.

Nippon no obaachan

Tadashi Imai

Chôchô Miyako, Tanie Kitabayashi

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.

Hachi-ko

Seijiro Koyama

Tatsuya Nakadai, Kaoru Yachigusa

The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.

泥の河

Kôhei Oguri

Takahiro Tamura, Mariko Kaga

Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.

Seisaku's Wife

Yasuzō Masumura

Ayako Wakao, Takahiro Tamura

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.

Revenge

Tadashi Imai

Kinnosuke Nakamura, Takahiro Tamura

An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The situation snowballs out of control, leading to a deadly duel and political fallout which threatens the entire clan.

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda

Martin Balsam, Sō Yamamura

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

白い巨塔

Satsuo Yamamoto

Jirō Tamiya, Eijirō Tōno

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.