Kyoko Mori

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.

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Mikio Naruse

Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older. She's of an age when she must choose: to seek marriage (difficult given her tarnished occupation), to be a kept woman, or to borrow money to buy a bar of her own. Each route has dangers, including investors demanding a return on their loans. Keiko has a quiet dignity that attracts men, but are they what they seem? Does she actually have choices?

Fort Graveyard

Kihachi Okamoto

Toshirō Mifune, Makoto Satō

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.

All About Marriage

Kihachi Okamoto

Izumi Yukimura, Michiyo Aratama

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

野獣死すべし

Eizo Sugawa

Tatsuya Nakadai, Hiroshi Koizumi

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.

哀愁の街に霧が降る

Shigeaki Hidaka

Shinji Yamada, Kyōko Aoyama

Destroy All Monsters

Ishirō Honda

Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki

At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the monsters across the world.

世界大戦争

Shûe Matsubayashi

Frankie Sakai, Akira Takarada

This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.

けものみち

Eizo Sugawa

Junko Ikeuchi, Keiju Kobayashi

"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

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.

レッツゴー！若大将

Katsuki Iwauchi

Yûzô Kayama, Ichirô Arishima

College student Yuuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off against their rivals, Seihoku. Yuuichi has his sights set on winning football gold, but his father, who wants him to take over his sukiyaki restaurant, isn't too keen on this. Set in Kyoto, Hong Kong, and Macau, we follow Yuuichi as he falls in love and chases after his dreams.