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- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTakashi ShimuraKeiko TsushimaFarmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsKô MishimaTorahiko HamadaKeiko KishiA group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
- DirectorKeigo KimuraStarsIsuzu YamadaTatsuya NakadaiKen Uehara
- DirectorYasuki ChibaStarsDaisuke KatôChikage AwashimaSeizaburô KawazuThe story of the man named Ushinosukein who arrives at Tokyo Station in 1927. He was born in a poor area of Shikoku and at age 18 came across a beautiful girl named Kanako in his hometown. She was so pretty that he wrote her a love letter which became talk of town and, in turn, prompted him to flee to Tokyo. Upon arrival in the capital he works at a trading company and, given his good memory and skill, succeeds. One day he returns to his hometown only to find out that Kanako is married and living in Tokyo now.
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsHideko TakamineKen UeharaDaisuke KatôA woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
- DirectorYasuki ChibaStarsDaisuke KatôSadako SawamuraHiroshi TachikawaIn this installment, the trader is bankrupt and has returned to his hometown where the inhabitants believe he is rich. His house is new and rebuilt since he had sent money to his family for that purpose further fueling perceptions of him. It is seven months that he has been back, has picked up a girlfriend when an acquaintance sends him money to encourage him to return to Tokyo. He promises his girlfriend he will call.
- DirectorToshio SugieStarsBin AmatsuKeiko AwajiMinoru Chiaki
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsFumio WatanabeTatsuya NakadaiIneko ArimaA love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.
- DirectorYasuki ChibaStarsDaisuke KatôAkira TaniSadako SawamuraIn the third film out of four adopted from a novel called Oban, which narrates the story of a trader, a man with a loan over his head decides to return to his hometown and become a farmer. When he returns to his hometown he again meets a woman he loved before again. The woman is now married and coincidentally simultaneously also back in the town. The man pretends he is something he is not.
- DirectorNobuo AoyagiStarsChiemi EriHiroshi KoizumiTatsuya Nakadai
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsIzumi YukimuraMichiyo TamakiMichiyo AratamaUltra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister
- DirectorKôzô SaekiStarsFurankî SakaiKeiko AwajiEitarô Ozawa
- DirectorYasuki ChibaStarsDaisuke KatôChikage AwashimaSetsuko Hara
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsRaizô IchikawaGanjirô NakamuraTatsuya NakadaiGoichi Mizoguchi, an aspiring Buddhist monk who became involved in the temple that was owned by his father, through a series of flashbacks, framed as a police interrogation, Mizoguchi unravels the story of his obsession with the temple beginning with his childhood.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsTatsuya NakadaiMichiyo AratamaChikage AwashimaA Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.
- DirectorEizô SugawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiHiroshi KoizumiReiko DanA promising post-graduate literature student (Nakadai) is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man. One of the first "lonely hit-man" or "lonely killer.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsMachiko KyôGanjirô NakamuraJunko KanôA man getting on in years sets out to find a way to resurrect his flagging virility.
- DirectorToshio SugieStarsReiko DanSonomi NakajimaNoriko Shigeyama
- DirectorShirô ToyodaStarsRyô IkebeFujiko YamamotoChikage AwashimaAdapted from Naoya Shiga's novel about the emotional turmoil of a man who suspects that his wife is committing adultery with his father.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsTatsuya NakadaiMichiyo AratamaKokinji KatsuraAs a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsHideko TakamineTatsuya NakadaiMasayuki MoriA middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsSetsuko HaraMasayuki MoriHideko TakamineThe story of a family in Tokyo who live under the same roof in a large house and include the widowed sixty-year-old mother, older son and his wife, the youngest daughter and the older daughter who, while being married, is experiencing domestic problems and has moved back in. The latter woman's husband soon dies however making the move permanent. With life insurance money flowing in she not only can afford to pay rent, but also loan some cash to her brother who unbeknownst to his mother has taken on a loan from the bank with the house as collateral. The loan was needed as his wife's aunt's factory needs an infusion of funds.
- DirectorHiromichi HorikawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiYôko TsukasaKoreya SendaTatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral drama. When things get too hot, he bails and goes to work for a prominent politician (Koreya Senda). Soon he has impregnated the daughter (Yoko Tsukasa) of his boss, but he figures marriage will solve his current problems. His happiness is short-lived when he is stalked by a union radical he once double-crossed who now seeks vengeance.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsTatsuya NakadaiMichiyo AratamaTamao NakamuraHis ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneEijirô TônoTatsuya NakadaiA crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsHideko TakamineChikage AwashimaMasayuki MoriThe real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, the hostess of a Ginza bar the family frequents.
- DirectorHeinosuke GoshoStarsKeiji SadaIneko ArimaChieko Baishô
- DirectorKeisuke KinoshitaStarsHideko TakamineKeiji SadaTatsuya NakadaiA young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through three decades of bitter conflict which engulfs their children and those around them.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTatsuya NakadaiKeiju KobayashiA crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsKeiko KishiTatsuya NakadaiSô YamamuraA dying businessman intends to will two hundred million yen to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.
- DirectorKinuyo TanakaStarsIneko ArimaTatsuya NakadaiGanjirô NakamuraA tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira IshihamaShima IwashitaWhen a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneYutaka SadaTatsuya NakadaiAn executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
- DirectorToshirô MifuneStarsToshirô MifuneTatsuya MihashiTsutomu YamazakiDuring the Second World War, Takeichi Matsuo had participated in hiding a huge cache of gold in the Phillippine mountains. Years after the war, he is kidnapped by Mitsura and Keigo Gunji, brothers who want Matsuo to lead them to the still-buried gold. Matsuo, who is tormented by the memories of the half-million Japanese who died in the Phillippines during the war, wants to make off with the gold and return it to the Japanese people. But of course the Gunji brothers have other ideas.
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsHideko TakamineAkira TakaradaTsutomu YamazakiA woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsRentarô MikuniMichiyo AratamaMisako WatanabeA collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.
- DirectorTadashi SawashimaStarsKinnosuke NakamuraTatsuya NakadaiHiroki MatsukataThis anthology tells three separate stories, all about yakuza (Japan's gangsters) in the feudal period. In the first, Sentaro, a roaming yakuza, seeks sanctuary with a gang which then asks his help in a fight against its rivals. His attention is drawn primarily to a young woman who waits in vain for the man she loves. In the second tale, two gamblers barely escape from their pursuers after being caught cheating. They rest in a cabin where a young woman lives. The older gambler, it turns out, has a history with the young woman, a history that changes all three lives. The third tale concerns a young yakuza, a braggart and coward, who is asked by villagers to kill the hated official who torments them. Despite being a gangster, he finds himself sympathetic to the villagers' plight. Now if he can only find the courage to help them.
- DirectorShirô ToyodaStarsTatsuya NakadaiMariko OkadaJunko IkeuchiA samurai warrior is haunted by the spirit of his first wife.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsToshirô MifuneMakoto SatôReiko DanIn 1945, Japanese Army Sergeant Kosugi and a platoon of young green recruits must retake and defend a fort occupied by the Chinese forces.
- DirectorHiromichi HorikawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiTakeshi Katô
- DirectorHideo GoshaStarsTatsuya NakadaiIchirô NakataniHisashi IgawaFresh out of prison, a broken man reluctantly takes a job to kill three men, but changes his mind when some gangsters target the same men. He then tries to find out why the men are being targeted in the first place.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsTatsuya NakadaiMichiyo AratamaYûzô KayamaThrough his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.
- DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsTatsuya NakadaiMikijirô HiraKyôko KishidaA businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
- DirectorYasuki ChibaStarsMachiko KyôHaruko SugimuraYôko TsukasaFour sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffering mother. The mother and her brother try various schemes to find husbands for them.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsTatsuya NakadaiReiko DanHideo SunazukaA nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsToshirô MifuneYôko TsukasaGô KatôThe mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
- DirectorTonino CerviStarsBrett HalseyBud SpencerWayde PrestonA man released after a jail term for a crime he did not commit, raises a gang to go after the man who framed him.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsTatsuya NakadaiEtsushi TakahashiYuriko HoshiTwo ronin - an ex-samurai and an ex-farmer - get caught up in a local official's complex game of murder and betrayal.
- DirectorSeiji MaruyamaStarsToshirô MifuneYûzô KayamaYôko TsukasaA biography of one of the only beloved postwar figures of Japan's disastrous Pacific War. A common-sense soldier knows the war is doomed, but gamely goes ahead and does the best with what he's given.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsMinori TeradaNaoko ÔtaniYûnosuke ItôDuring World War II, a Japanese soldier finds himself assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship.
- DirectorHideo GoshaStarsTatsuya NakadaiTetsurô TanbaYôko TsukasaA guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
- DirectorKoreyoshi KuraharaStarsYûjirô IshiharaTatsuya NakadaiToshirô MifuneAn international group of racers compete at a Safari Rally.
- DirectorSeiji MaruyamaStarsToshirô MifuneTatsuya NakadaiYûzô KayamaJapan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan.
- DirectorHideo GoshaStarsShintarô KatsuTatsuya NakadaiYukio MishimaA destitute ronin allies himself with an established clan, but its ruthless leader tries to turn him into a mindless killer.
- DirectorShirô ToyodaStarsHideyo AmamotoTadao FutamiMasao ImafukuA rebellious Korean artist tests the limits of his sadistic patron, an omnipotent feudal Japanese lord. Yoshihide demands a commission to paint screens of the Hell which he sees the egotistical lord's peasants suffer. Such a public display will challenge the uncaring upper class' obsession with their own personal beauty. With Chinese and Buddhist influences at a peak in 11th century Japan, the daimyo Horikawa wanted a mural of Buddhist paradise. As Yoshihide's ghastly artworks appear to come to life, the painter and his patron's mutual racism also take their toll.
- DirectorSatsuo YamamotoStarsTatsuya NakadaiAyako WakaoGô KatôRecounts the events that the Mito Tengu Group undertook when they attempted to overthrow the Shogunate during the Bakumatsu Period.
- DirectorKengo FurusawaStarsYûzô KayamaRentarô MikuniShôgo Shimada1864. 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.
- DirectorDaisuke ItôStarsKinnosuke NakamuraToshirô MifuneKeiju KobayashiThe story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsTatsuya NakadaiShima IwashitaShôichi OzawaAn outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
- DirectorKenji MisumiStarsShintarô KatsuReiko ÔharaPîtâZatoichi meets an infamous blind leader of a gangster organization as he contends with a gloomy ronin widower.
- DirectorSeiji MaruyamaStarsHisashi IgawaIsao KimuraKin'ya Kitaôji
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsKeiju KobayashiYûzô KayamaTetsurô TanbaTold from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War II's Battle of Okinawa - a massive amphibious assault by U.S. troops that left more than 150,000 Japanese civilians dead.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsTatsuya NakadaiKomaki KuriharaWakako SakaiThe story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers to), the head-quarters of a group of smugglers, with stolen money intended to ransom his loved one who is forced to work in a brothel.
- DirectorHideo GoshaStarsRumi AikiHideyo AmamotoNoboru AndôAfter going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, a gangster gets released early - only to find that his ex-gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, bloodshed is bound to begin anew.
- DirectorEiichi YamamotoStarsAiko NagayamaChinatsu NakayamaMasaya TakahashiAfter being raped by an evil feudal lord and subsequently getting banished from her village, a peasant girl makes a pact with the Devil to gain magical powers and take her revenge.
- DirectorToshio MasudaStarsTetsurô TanbaShinsuke AshidaMichiyo AratamaA twenty-year-old man meets another who is a headmaster of an elementary school in 1920. They form a teacher and pupil relationship. The headmaster has his own methods and is unorthodox leading to his dismissal by the education authorities. The two men, as such, form an education-related business. The former headmaster converts to a sect of Buddhism five years later. In 1930 the two found a new religion. The government is unhappy with the upstarts and their superstitions. They are assigned jail cells at appropriate facilities. The older man dies there. The younger man becomes the lead of the new belief system. His release in 1945 is followed by Japan losing the war. He begins conducting business again.
- DirectorKiriô UrayamaStarsKen TanakaTomohiro TanabeKen MatsudaMainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of the life of the characters. Shinsuke's father dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a kind Korean and a Harley-riding yakuza.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsYûsuke OkadaHiroko IsayamaKyû SakamotoDuring the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate in order to fight Imperial troops. But Sentaro's friendship with a pickpocket, who switches sides whenever it suits his needs, leads to complications that could cost Sentaro his life as they infiltrate enemy lines.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiKuriko HanoJûzô ItamiThe cat of the title roams around the house of a poor schoolteacher in the late 19th century, observing the goings-on of the teacher and his neighbors.
- DirectorSatsuo YamamotoStarsTatsuya NakadaiRentarô MikuniJûkichi UnoBased on an actual scandal a decade before (and released during another scandal), the film tells of a scheme to repay a loan shark's massive campaign loan by means of kickbacks from a large construction project and how it became exposed.
- DirectorToshio MasudaStarsTetsurô TanbaTeruhiko AoiMichiyo AratamaIn the second part of a biographical story, a man is released from jail and forges ahead with the business of religion. Then one day he meets a nineteen-year-old who asks him many questions and reminds him of his own younger days. The younger man converts to the older man's religion. His business finds followers, but there is not enough passion or curiosity amidst the followers. A problem arises soon. A female follower wants to divorce her yakuza husband and things become rough.
- DirectorSatsuo YamamotoStarsTatsuya NakadaiKumiko AkiyoshiShiho FujimuraAfter 11 years in Siberia as a war criminal, a man joins a corporation making fighter planes to sell to the government but other corporations are competing with his firm for the enormous profit of such a deal.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsTomokazu MiuraKumiko AkiyoshiTatsuya NakadaiThe 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.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsKôji IshizakaMieko TakamineKeiko KishiPrivate detective Kindaichi investigates a series of murders in scenic rural Japan.
- DirectorHideo GoshaStarsTatsuya NakadaiKôshirô MatsumotoShima IwashitaKumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsTomisaburô WakayamaToshinori OmiMasao KusakariEvil Queen Himiko and her army invade a small rural province in order to kill a Phoenix in order to achieve immortality, a young boy survives and goes on an adventure to amend the injustices.
- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsHiroshi KatsunoKeiko TakeshitaEiji OkadaUFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.
- DirectorHideo GoshaStarsTatsuya NakadaiTetsurô TanbaYoshio HaradaAn aging Yakuza boss in the the late 18th century runs a thriving lantern and silk dying business. However, he is also a Hunter in the Dark, an shady underworld figure who unravels a mystery about a rival clan. His wife tries to protect what he wants to throw away. His new bodyguard has a missing memory. The truth lies within the code of the Yakuza, where honor and sacrifice are rewarded with a warriors death.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiTsutomu YamazakiKen'ichi HagiwaraA petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.