Atsuo Nakamura

襤褸の旗

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Rentaro Mikuni, Michiko Araki

Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

樹海のふたり

Hideya Yamaguchi

Yasuhiro Arai, Kumiko Endô

Two TV directors want to film people visiting a suicide forest.

Kwaidan

Masaki Kobayashi

Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

お吟さま

Kei Kumai

Ryoko Nakano, Takashi Shimura

Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has angered Hideyoshi by becoming a Christian convert. Ogin's father Rikyu also displeases Hideyoshi by opposing the warlord's plan to invade China and Korea. When the animalistic Hideyoshi is rejected by Ogin, he threatens her and her father with arrest and worse.

Kill!

Kihachi Okamoto

Tatsuya Nakadai, Etsushi Takahashi

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.

帰って来た木枯し紋次郎

Kon Ichikawa

Atsuo Nakamura, Ryôko Sakaguchi

姿三四郎

Kihachi Okamoto

Tomokazu Miura, Kumiko Akiyoshi

The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.

儀式

Nagisa Ōshima

Kenzō Kawarasaki, Atsuko Kaku

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.

帰らざる日々

Toshiya Fujita

Jun Etô, Toshiyuki Nagashima

The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father.

破線のマリス

Satoshi Isaka

Hitomi Kuroki, Takanori Jinnai

Japanese director Satoshi Isaka spins this taunt thriller about an ultra-ambitious reporter who soon finds herself on the receiving end of tabloid dirt. Popular television actress Hitomi Kuroki stars as Yuko, an ice-queen TV news editor who is approached by a mysterious man from the PTT Ministry. The man offers her proof, on videotape, that a major university is bribing a particular government official to overlook a massive media merger. The secret transaction has already resulted in the death of one investigator. Yuko promptly broadcasts the damning footage, and high-ranking bureaucrat Aso (Takanori Jinnai) is forced out of office.

麻薬売春Ｇメン

Shin Takakuwa

Shin'ichi Chiba, Eiko Takehara

Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.

新撰組

Kon Ichikawa

Atsuo Nakamura, Kiichi Nakai

Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force - the Shinsengumi - at the end of the Edo period.

無頼漢

Masahiro Shinoda

Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

集団左遷

Shunichi Kajima

Kyohei Shibata, Atsuo Nakamura

In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.

無宿人御子神の丈吉 川風に過去は流れた

Kazuo Ikehiro

Yoshio Harada, Atsuo Nakamura

Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being captured by Yakuza. His life is spared by Boss Juzaburo, in order that the harmony of an important commemoration not be further disturbed. Though now even more of an outcast, Jokichi is asked by another Yakuza boss, Umezo, to guard Oyuki, the wayward daughter of Juzaburo. The tragic consequences of this assignment will lead him into a deadly trap and a final confrontation with Chogoro.

幽霊屋敷の恐怖 血を吸う人形

Michio Yamamoto

Kayo Matsuo, Akira Nakao

A young man travels out into the countryside to meet his fiance, Yuko. When he arrives at the secluded house he is told by her mother that she has died in a car accident. He spends the night at the house and hears some strange sounds at night, even seeing someone that looks just like his dead love. Later he sees Yuko outside the house and follows her to a grave with her name. Cut to some days later where the young mans sister is worried since she hasnt heard from him in some time. She persuades her boyfriend to take her to the house, but is told that he already left. For the sake of proper plot development she doesnt believe Yukos mother and fakes the car breaking down so that they can investigate what really happened.