Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through the Soviet Union's sudden attack upon Japanese troops at the end of the war.
Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair with Tate who's a young lieutenant in the Army, ultimately becoming a right-wing fundamentalist revolutionary. She marries another man, one totally dedicated to the rigorous practices of Noh theatre, in an arranged marriage, but the bond that connects her with Tate is too strong.
Muraki es un yakuza recién salido de la cárcel. Hastiado con el rumbo que ha tomado su organización, conoce a Saeko, una enigmática joven interesada en el juego y las sensaciones fuertes.
hired driver
Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Chiee loses her memory. A romance movie whose original work by Ayako Sono was made into a melodrama by a combination of Shinoda Masahiro and Terayama Shuji.
A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a classical theatre student in the hope that the latter will marry Senya..
Un empresario de la construcción contrata a un grupo de asesinos profesionales para que liquiden a una periodista que está investigando los negocios turbios que se trae entre manos.
Station attendant
A un hombre de negocios sus amigos le piden constantemente consejos sobre el matrimonio, la vida conyugal y la vida familiar. Su serenidad y sus agudos análisis le permiten encontrar el consejo oportuno para cada situación. Sin embargo, cuando él mismo tiene que afrontar una delicada situación que afecta a su hija mayor, tropezará con grandes dificultades para encontrar una solución al conflicto.
A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.
Mover
The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.
Un hombre casado de mediana edad, aburrido de la rutina cotidiana tanto en el trabajo como en su matrimonio, tiene una aventura amorosa con la hija de un colega suyo. Cuando su mujer descubre su infidelidad, tanto su vida como la de su familia quedarán completamente trastornadas.
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.
