Rentaro Mikuni

襤褸の旗

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Rentaro Mikuni, Michiko Araki

Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

上海の女

Hiroshi Inagaki

Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Rentaro Mikuni

愛情について

Yasuki Chiba

Rentaro Mikuni, Hiroshi Koizumi

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her parents' house in Tokyo with her five-year-old daughter Yoshiko.

切腹

Masaki Kobayashi

Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.

街

Miyoji Ieki

Shinjirô Ehara, Yoshiko Mita

Старик и море

Aleksandr Petrov

Gordon Pinsent, Kevin Duhaney

An old fisherman goes out on his fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life.

Run, Genta, Run!

Tomotaka Tasaka

Ineko Arima, Michiyo Kogure

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.

ビルマの竪琴

Kon Ichikawa

Rentaro Mikuni, Shōji Yasui

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.

吹けよ春風

Senkichi Taniguchi

Toshirō Mifune, Hisako Yamane

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.

A Fugitive from the Past

Tomu Uchida

Rentaro Mikuni, Sachiko Hidari

Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.

Vengeance Is Mine

Shōhei Imamura

Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

金の卵

Yasuki Chiba

Toshirō Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.

螢川

Eizo Sugawa

Rentaro Mikuni, Yukiyo Toake

During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had heard that in April of a year when the winter has been very harsh, any couple finding fireflies together needs to get married. However, his family's situation does not allow Tatsuo to continue his worrying about such things for very much longer.

女人の館

Masahisa Sunohara

Rentaro Mikuni, Mie Kitahara

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter Takashiro Egi, Shizu Kazemaki, Mitsue Nanbu, an intellectual who works in a university laboratory, and an old woman.

Tale of Japanese Burglars

Satsuo Yamamoto

Rentaro Mikuni, Yūnosuke Itō

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.