A narrative feature made from a collage of clips from various films around the world.
1960年代。3歳のボク（オダギリジョー）は、真夜中に玄関の戸を蹴破って帰ってきた酔っぱらいのオトン（小林薫）にいきなり焼き鳥の串を食べさせられてしまう。オトンに手を焼いたオカン（樹木希林）はボクを筑豊の実家に連れ帰り、妹の“ブーブおばさん”の小料理屋を手伝いながら、女手一つでボクを育て始めるのだった。
Obasan working at the Inn
東京都調布市。この町に暮らす6人の少年、イシハラ、ノブエ、ヤノ、スギヤマ、カトウ、スギオカ。普段はバラバラに生活している彼らは、儀式と称して定期的にカラオケ・パーティを行うことで繋がっていた。彼らがそこで歌うのは昭和の歌謡曲のみ。ある日、睡眠不足のまま町をさまよっていたスギオカに、猛烈なスピードで歩いて来た中年女性ヤナギモトがぶつかる。転びかけたスギオカだったが、無視して歩き去るおばさんのお尻に欲情を覚え、怒るどころかお茶に誘う。しかし、ヤナギモトはそんなスギオカを変態呼ばわりするのだった…。
Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies. Because he is a flight risk, Detective Kayama (Ogata Ken) is assigned to transport Mizusawa to Shizuoka for questioning. On the way, Kayama receives word that the hotel where his wife and daughter are attending a party has been rigged with a time bomb. Being a "by-the-book" kind of cop, Kayama refuses to abandon his job and return to help his family. Meanwhile, the hotel is swarming with police and the bomb squad who are searching for the bomb and the culprit. Time is almost up. Mizusawa claims that he is the only who who can deactivate the bomb.
Chiyoko Azuma
ごく普通の主婦たちが閉塞状況から逃れるために起こした行動を衝撃的に描いた桐野夏生原作の傑作ミステリーを映画化。監督は「愛を乞うひと」の平山秀幸。４人のパート主婦たちを原田美枝子、倍賞美津子、室井滋、西田尚美という新旧の実力派女優が演じて、ハードな中にもユーモアを感じさせ、爽快な活劇に仕上げている。 東京郊外の弁当工場。深夜パートの主婦たち、香取雅子42歳、吾妻ヨシエ51歳、城之内邦子40歳、山本弥生30歳の４人はそれぞれに悩みや問題を抱えていた。ある日、雅子のもとに弥生から電話が入る。弥生はギャンブル狂の夫・健司の度重なる暴力に耐えかね、ついに寝込みのスキを突いて殺してしまったと言う。妊娠８ヶ月の弥生は泣いてすがり、雅子はやむなく死体を自分の車のトランクに一時的に隠すことに。しかし、弥生はそれから工場に姿を見せなくなってしまった。死体の処理に困った雅子は仕方なく“師匠”と慕うヨシエに協力を持ちかけるのだった…。
Manager
In the year 198X, a young screenwriter, Ryohei Shimura, has been in a slump lately. Then an opportunity arises. He is asked to write a script for the comeback film of Akiko Ryuzoji, the legendary beauty who was known as Japan's Cleopatra. Ryohei met Akiko right away, but he couldn't believe his eyes. Akiko was young and good-looking, even though she was already an old woman. Ryohei moved into Akiko's house to work on his scenario. A film director, Mizumori, who lives with Akiko at the mansion, warns Ryohei, “Don't sleep with Akiko,” he says. In fact, Ryohei was chosen for the job for a surprising reason...
Asa
Broke, his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.
Kinoe Yoshino
A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.
A stylish light comedy about the “Banana boys”— two boys who were born and raised in Roppongi who are still growing up.
大正７年、春。女学校を出たての花村紅緒は、料理・裁縫は苦手だが、竹刀を持てば天下無敵、袴姿で自転車走らすハイカラ娘だった。そんな彼女の前に、伊集院忍という名の帝国陸軍少尉の許婚が現れた。早速、伊集院家で行儀見習いをすることになった紅緒だが、心の中では政略結婚を嫌い反発していた。ある日、紅緒は忍が芸者と親しくしているのを目撃し、ヤケ酒を飲み泥酔、軍人相手の喧嘩をし危ないところを忍に助けてもらうが、事件を雑誌掲載されたことから忍は小倉の部隊へ左遷されてしまう。
Landlord
Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan himself…
Old woman
太平洋戦争末期に実際に起こった米軍捕虜に対する生体解剖事件を描いた遠藤周作の同名小説を、社会派・熊井啓監督が映画化した問題作。敗色も濃厚となった昭和20年5月。九州のF市にも毎晩のように米軍機による空襲が繰り返されていた。医学部の研究生、勝呂と戸田の二人は物資も薬品も揃わぬ状況下でなかば投げやりな毎日を送っていた。
Momoko Watanabe—a student who, upon visiting a shrine in order to wish good luck on a friend of hers, witnesses a murder in the forest...and she knows the culprit! Unfortunately, she doesn't have it in her to tell anybody about it, and to make matters worse, said aforementioned friend gets accused of the murder.
Accused of being a spy for a rival clan by Nanbu Clan samurai who then attack him, the 'Lowly Ronin' barely escapes with his life after being shot. Nursed back to health by Yamaoka Daijiro, the one Nanbu Clan retainer that believes him, he must find a way to prove his inno-cence to the others. The two team up together to uncover the mystery and find out who the real spy is that threatens the security of the clan. Against all odds, the two master swordsmen must rely on all their skills to defeat a vast conspiracy and save the clan from being abolished.
Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV movie. The wandering ronin is reminiscent of his most famous role as the samurai without a name in Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro". He travels about Japan, and while he may seek happiness, violence and tragedy always cross his path. This time it is a woman carrying a young infant who he encounters on the road that leads him into a tale of violence, intrigue and a village in uproar. A great story and cool action scenes, a movie not to be missed!
After saving a young Lord from an assassination attempt the Lowly Ronin finds that he is now a wanted man! Accused of being a thief by those that tried to kill the young Lord he must now clear himself of the accusations. Befriended by an old woman, she then attempts to use him for her own designs.
Koji's grandmother
高校2年生の三田村由香は、自分が超能力を持っていることに気づく。そんな中、由香のクラスに高見沢みちるという少女が転入してくる。みちるは怪しい力を使って生徒会長の座につき、自分の思うままに学園を支配していく。やがて由香は、すべての元凶が謎の少年・魔王子率いる「英光塾」にあることを突き止める。
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh. Keiko even had to work on the first night after her marriage. Ten years later, the married couple is still at it. Yauso tends to the house and their children, while Keiko sacrifices family life for life as an overworked nurse. One day, after Keiko comes home utterly exhausted and dejected from her work, Yasuo makes up his mind and writes a letter of resignation in her place. Upon learning of this, Keiko angrily declares that nursing is what she lives for and she will keep on working. Realising that that is one battle he will never win, Yasuo sends a letter to a newspaper -- “Nurses’ husbands, aren’t you having a hard time? Get together nurses’ husbands. Contact me.” There is a tremendous response. This leads to the formation of many unions of nurses’ husbands throughout the country.
Yuki's mother
21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver's license and a car belonging to the junkyard. But unfortunately, things go wrong and after a collision with another car, the seriously injured Hideo is taken to the hospital. Here he meets the nurse Yuki Kobayashi. Yuki is the opposite of Hideo. During the day she works as a nurse and in the evening she studies hard. However, Hideo's behavior leaves an unforgettable impression on Yuki and the two soon develop an intimate friendship ...
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.
Tobacco Shop Owner
Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but tires of their authority over his life. A chance encounter with Yukiko Hirai one rainy night brings a new romance into Ryohei's life, and he and Yukiko fall deeply in love. Yukiko, however, reveals that she has a violent husband in prison - with only a week left until his release. Ryohei, desperate to maintain his social standing, brings Yukiko to the mountains in Nagano and sets in motion an unthinkable, tragic chain of events.
Michio's Mother
A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists’ model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in world where sight is replaced by touch.
The love story of an aspiring architect and a charcoal-making daughter, who discover that they are actually brother and sister.
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.
Female Delegate
ゴジラシリーズ第6作となる日米合作映画。木星１３番目の新惑星・Ｘ星が発見され、Ｘ星探査に派遣された地球連合宇宙局の宇宙パイロットたちは、Ｘ星人と遭遇してしまう。Ｘ星人たちはガンの特効薬と引き換えに、キングギドラ撃退のためゴジラとラドンを借りたいと人類に申し出る。だが、彼らの真の目的は地球侵略にあり、ゴジラ、ラドンをＸ星へ連れ出し、電磁波で洗脳すると、キングギドラとともに地球に送り込み人類への攻撃を開始する。果たして人類にＸ星人の野望を打ち砕く術はあるのか？
"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.
Village woman (segment "Yuki-Onna") (uncredited)
「黒髪」：妻を捨て、京都から遠い任地へと赴いた武士。そこで彼は、良い家柄の娘と結婚するが、彼女は冷酷な女で、男は今さら、別れた妻のことを思い出すのだった。やがて任期を終え、京都に戻った彼は最初の妻と再会するが…。「雪女」：きこりの巳之吉は、森へ薪を採りに入ったところで吹雪に遭い、山小屋に閉じ込められるはめに。その晩彼は、雪女の姿を目の当たりにし…。ほかに「耳無し抱一の話」「茶碗の中」の計4編。
Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, moonlights as a hostess at a bar. One of the regulars, Eiji Kitami, invites her out on a date. Still only 19, she goes along out of curiosity and ends up spending the night at a hotel where she gives herself to him. They begin a passionate love affair and move in together, after which Yoshie begins skipping work at the factory and rarely returns to her family home. Before long, Eiji’s demeanor changes and he begins to constantly ask her for money. Despite claiming to be a businessman, he is actually a local thug, and his inability to pay his dues to his gang leads him to force Yoshie into prostitution.
Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.
Sayo Iida
On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown to his family and colleagues. A bevy of lawyers and associates scheme to procure the money for themselves, enlisting the aid of impostors and blackmail.
Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy's rescue in times of difficulty.
Shizuka
In the late 1950's prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this profession they were sent to a reformatory. This is a story of one of these brave women Kuniko who is released from the reformatory and tries to build a new life.
Toru's mother
Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on the other. Yukio's younger sister Setsu follows then and dreams of becoming a pearl diver. Toru is preparing to go fishing with his father when a bell tolls and a danger flag is hung high on the hill behind the village to warn of an impending tidal wave by the village patriarch, known as Old Gentleman.
Fortune-teller
夫を亡くした圭子は、外国人マスターが経営する銀座のバー“ライラック”の雇われマダムだった。よく店に来ていた利権屋の美濃部が、かつて圭子の下で働いていたユリに店を持たせ、そちらへ頻繁に出入りしているようだ。マスターからはユリのように体を張って売り上げを回復させろと言われてしまう。ある日、狂言自殺をするつもりだったユリが本当に死亡した。葬儀の席で圭子は美濃部に食ってかかるが、血を吐いて倒れてしまう。酒の飲み過ぎで胃潰瘍にかかっていたのだ。やがて圭子は客に体を許すようになるが、その度に裏切られてしまう。
Osen Miyoshi
An Ishiro Honda film.
暗黒の夜空に広がる断末魔の絶叫！顔を見られたスリは、時々恐ろしい殺人凶行に出るものである。無残に横たわる惨殺死体をめぐって、警視庁捜査陣は俄然色めき立ち、悲嘆にくれる被害者の妻子の身辺はもちろん、現場付近の聞き込みに万全を期すとともに、草の根を分けて現場の検証に乗り出した。その結果、被害者のものと思われる血糊のついた財布を発見。さらには女物の財布やイヤリングなどが見つかる。女物の財布は男娼が以前掏られたものと判明、男娼の証言で胡麻塩頭のスリの存在が浮かび上がってきた。だが翌日、胡麻塩頭の男は轢死体となって発見された―。
In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumental battle to determine their survival.
Masseuse
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.
Hisako
A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming model.
Osaku
20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).
Tenko Takahashi, prisoner
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had an affair. She loves the jailed criminals and almost sees them as family. One day at a workshop someone faints while working hard to make money because she has a poor boyfriend. Another inmate is knocked up Another is a mother and has her child with her.
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when she accepts a job at a local inn.
夜明け前の東京を目指す東北本線上がり貨物四二六列車。最後尾の郵便貨車の中では3名の乗務員が郵便物の整理に励んでいた。
Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.
Kimie Nakajima
町工場を経営する財産家・中島喜一は突然、原水爆とその放射能に対して強い恐怖を抱くようになり、地球上で唯一安全と思われる南米ブラジルへの親類縁者全員の移住を計画する。しかし、このあまりにも突拍子もない行動に対し、現実の生活が脅かされると感じた家族は喜一を準禁治産者として認めてもらうため裁判にかけるのだった。
五十円横町と云われる町内の人々は総ていい人ばかり。そこには気のいいコロッケ屋の旦那、ヤキモチ焼きの細君、ハッキリ型のその娘、少々不良のその妹、銭形平次を気取る弟、飲み屋のむっつり親爺、年中歯痛に悩まされているその女房、田舎出の志那米青年巡査、好人物の老警官――貧しいながらささやかな幸福に生きる横町の人々、そこに捨てられた子と、子にそむかれた母をめぐって一人一人の心を結ぶ人情のそよ風、こころよく泣ける愛の傑作！
Sei
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the officers of this local police station, it‘s part of their daily routine. One day, patrolman Yoshii (Hisaya Morishige) finds an abandoned baby and a six year old girl standing in front of the station. When he's declined by the welfare office, orphanage and local health clinic to take them in, he decides to take care of them himself.
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
After the Onin War ended in 1477, Kyoto was left in ashes and the nation was in complete disorder. Bands of roving samurai called the "nobushi" terrorized the country under the leadership of Akagaki Genba and overthrew Mangetsu Castle in Tanba Province scattering the few survivors. Lord Niwa's two sons have been studying in China and return to Japan upon hearing of the tragedy in an attempt to restore the clan. On Mt. Oe they meet magician Kiri no Kojiro and try to enlist his aid. With touches of the supernatural and rousing sword-play can they succeed against the evil villains whose symbol is the skull mask?
Wife of Gono Family
麦の刈入れが終わる頃。とある農村では野武士たちの襲来を前に恐怖におののいていた。百姓だけで闘っても勝ち目はないが、麦を盗られれば飢え死にしてしまう。百姓たちは野盗から村を守るため侍を雇うことを決断する。やがて、百姓たちは食べるのもままならない浪人たち7人を見つけ出し、彼らとともに野武士に対抗すべく立ち上がる……。
Chie Sasaki
An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.
Wife Ohana
Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt sweater.
Personnel Chief's wife
1950s Japanese comedy.
Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.
A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.
Maid in the Ono house
Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become close, but decide not to consummate their affair. He instead becomes involved with the flirtatious Tomiko, who is also conducting an affair with Michiko's husband. When Michiko finds that her husband has abandoned her, she decides to take her fate into her own hands.
Takako
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved in turn by Akama. When Akama realizes that he will never have Taeko, his thoughts turn to murder, and great tragedy ensues.
Ochika
A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.
A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheated bathroom.
Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko (Setsuko's sister) tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.
The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and estranged lovers. With its cat fights, hysterical tantrums, film noir lighting, and dramatic music, White Beast is indicative of the new influences of the Hollywood psychological thriller on Naruse. Caged (John Cromwell, 1950) initiated a cycle of women's prison movies in the United States that may or may not have been shown in Japan, but the stylistics of White Beast draw on the same paranoid woman's films and film noir conventions that preceded the American cycle.
Sumie
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
Dancer-style woman
Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda
Tsukiyo
Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an isolated island in the Seto Inland Sea. Kosuke Kindaichi received a will from his friend Kito, which said, "Go to Gokumon Island to save my three younger sisters," and Kosuke went to Gokumon Island. Upon arriving at the residence of Quito, there were three beautiful sisters, a crazy father, a cousin of Sanae, and Kosuke plunged into a strange atmosphere. The film adaptation of the masterpiece novel of the same name by Seishi Yokomizo. Kyozo Kataoka plays Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, and Ryutaro Otomo plays Inspector Isokawa, who can be called Kindaichi's best partner.
Girl
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.
Apprentice Nurse
前線の野戦病院で次々と運ばれてくる負傷兵を必死に治療する軍医・藤崎。彼はふとした不注意から手術中に小指にキズをつくってしまい、そこから梅毒に感染してしまう。藤崎は誰にも打ち明けることなく、秘かにサルバルサンの注射を打ち続けるが大した効果はなかった。復員後、藤崎は恋人の美佐緒にも病気を隠し続け、次第に彼女を避けるようになるのだった……
Gin
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convince Matsunaga to stay for treatment, which would drastically change his lifestyle. They form an uneasy friendship until Matsunaga's old boss Okada returns from prison.
daughter Kuniko
Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The relationship leads to the end of his marriage and the breakup of his Arts Society. This is another version of Kenji Mizoguchi's film "The Love of Sumako the Actress" ("Joyû Sumako no koi"), from the same year. Both tells the story of the famous actress Sumako Mitsui (1886-1919), considered the first great modern theater actress in Japan. Mizoguchi himself is said to have preferred Kinugasa's version.
