Keiji Sakakida

七人の侍

Akira Kurosawa

Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

生きる

Akira Kurosawa

Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

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.

私は貝になりたい

Shinobu Hashimoto

Frankie Sakai, Michiyo Aratama

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.

東京の恋人

Yasuki Chiba

Setsuko Hara, Toshirō Mifune

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.

Tokyo no hito sayonara

Ishirō Honda

Chiyoko Shimakura, Shinji Yamada

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.

秀子の車掌さん

Mikio Naruse

Hideko Takamine, Kamatari Fujiwara

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the bus company itself are at stake.

旅役者

Mikio Naruse

Kamatari Fujiwara, Kan Yanagiya

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

愛の世界：山猫とみの話

Nobuo Aoyagi

Hideko Takamine, Michiko Aikawa

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute" for young girls in the countryside. There the residents grow their own food, cook and clean for themselves, and are taught language, music, and sewing. While there the young girl slowly begins to form friendships and come out of her shell.

蝦夷館の決闘

Kengo Furusawa

Yûzô Kayama, Rentaro Mikuni

1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.

兄いもうと

Sotoji Kimura

Chieko Takehisa, Sadao Maruyama

Ino tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a student, Obata whereas her sister San remains a “good girl.” The mother is very supportive of her daughters, but, the father, Akaza, who is the stonecutter foreman on the damn, lacks control of his family.

暴れ豪右衛門

Hiroshi Inagaki

Toshirō Mifune, Makoto Satō

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to recruit him to fight in a conflict between Asakura and another clan. Goemon refuses, and Lord Asakura sets out to destroy him.

ガス人間第一号

Ishirō Honda

Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kaoru Yachigusa

A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks to fund the career of his girlfriend, a beautiful dancer. The Human Vapour is ruthless in his quest for money and kills anyone who stands in his way, especially police. He soon becomes Tokyo's most wanted criminal. Can he be stopped before he kills again?

巨人伝

Mansaku Itami

Setsuko Hara, Yoshio Kosugi

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in the country, a criminal escapes prison only to be found by a monk. The criminal decides to turn a new leaf based on their conversation and goes on to become a town's mayor. He hears news of a mistaken arrest and identity. The revelation of truth is the start of a series of miseries.

空の大怪獸 ラドン

Ishirō Honda

Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa

Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.