Asakazu Nakai

戦乱の世を生き抜いた武将・一文字秀虎も70歳を迎え、家督を息子3人に譲ることを決意。長男の太郎には一の城、次男の次郎には二の城、三男・三郎には三の城をそれぞれ与えた上、3人兄弟、仲良く相和して暮らすように説く。だが、三郎は、父の今後の身を案じたのがかえって秀虎の不興を買い、地方へ追放されてしまう。さらに3人兄弟の城を泊まり歩いて余生を暮らすつもりだった秀虎だが、太郎、次郎にそれぞれ疎んじられる。

In 1985, Chris Marker traveled to Japan to attend the filming of Ran, directed by Akira Kurosawa. Marker analyzes the progress of filming; the infinite patience of a team under the orders of a meticulous director down to the smallest detail; the antithetical mixture of the modern with the traditional; of the real with the fictitious; of life with cinema… and literature.

A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an estranged son in Japan.

帝国ロシアの軍人が記した探検記を元に、ソ連で製作された黒澤明監督作品。兵用地質調査のために赴いた地で出会ったゴリド族のデルス・ウザーラ。自然の尊さを歌うデルスの姿が大きな感動を呼ぶ。

Richness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted.

学園紛争のあおりで東大入試が中止となってしまった高校生薫クン（岡田裕介）のある一日を通して、青春の繊細な心理と行動、その機微を浮き彫りにしていく傑作青春映画。本作でデビューした岡田裕介は、後に東映会長となった。

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.

Four 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.

山本周五郎原作の『赤ひげ診療譚』を基に、巨匠・黒澤明監督が三船敏郎、加山雄三主演で映画化したヒューマニズム溢れる人情ドラマ。江戸時代の小石川養生所を舞台に、そこを訪れる庶民の人生模様と通称赤ひげと呼ばれる所長と青年医師の心の交流を描く。長崎で和蘭陀医学を学んだ青年・保本登は、医師見習いとして小石川養生所に住み込むことになる。養生所の貧乏くささとひげを生やし無骨な所長・赤ひげに好感を持てない保本は養生所の禁を犯して破門されることさえ望んでいた。しかし、赤ひげの診断と医療技術の確かさを知り、また彼を頼る貧乏な人々の姿に次第に心を動かされていくのだった……。

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris, France ("The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by Claude Chabrol); and Marrakesh, Morocco ("The Confidence Man" by Jean-Luc Godard). Godard's segment was not included in the original French cinema release, and Polanski's segment was not included on the 2016 home disc release.

ナショナル・シューズの権藤専務は、自分の息子と間違えられて運転手の息子が誘拐され、身代金3千万円を要求される。苦悩の末、権藤は運転手のために全財産を投げ出して3千万円を用意する。無事子どもは取り戻したが、犯人は巧みに金を奪い逃走してしまい、権藤自身は会社を追われてしまう……。

京都の造り酒屋・小早川の長男は早く死に、その未亡人の秋子に親戚の北川が再婚話を持ってくる。相手の磯村は鉄工所の社長でちょっとお調子者だ。また、次女の紀子も婚期を迎えて縁談が持ち込まれるが、彼女は大学時代の友人で、札幌に転勤することになっている寺本に思いを寄せていた。一方、小早川の当主・万兵衛は最近、行き先も告げずにこそこそと出かけることが目立つようになった。店員の丸山が後を尾けるが、したたかな万兵衛に見つかってしまい失敗。小早川の経営を取り仕切る入り婿の久夫と長女の文子夫婦が心配して行方を突き止めると、そこはかつての愛人・佐々木つねの家だった。さんざん死んだ母を泣かせた万兵衛の女好きがまた始まったと怒る文子。万兵衛はつねとその娘百合子との触れあいに、特別な安らぎを感じているようだったが、そこで倒れて亡くなる。葬式の日、紀子は秋子に札幌へ寺本と一緒に行く決心を告げるのだった。

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.

Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.

Tatsuya 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.

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lover, he runs into a neighbor who is later accused of murder. Questioned by police about the neighbor, and blackmailed by his lover's neighbor, the salaryman's lies lead him on a path to destruction.

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

シェイクスピアの『マクベス』を日本の戦国時代に置き換え様式美に拘り描いた戦国武将の一大悲劇。鷲津武時は謀反を起こした敵を討ち、その帰途の森で出会った老婆から不思議な予言を聞く。やがて予言通り事が運び始めると、欲望に取り憑かれた妻にそそのかされて主を殺し、自ら城主の地位につくのだったが……。

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。

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……。

三流どこの補習学校教師野呂は、税務署吏員金森風吉の家に間借りしている。独身者だ。久かたぶりに銀座へ出て目をまわし、トラックに轢かれそこなった。当分右腕が利かず、学生泡田に代って黒板に字をかいてもらうが、かき賃一時間百円也を請求され、びっくりする。学校経営者の土建屋から夜間担任に格下げされ、無体な時間外勤務を強いられても文句ひとついえぬ野呂が、心ひそかに想うのは金森の娘－－銀行事務員のカン子であった。カン子は無類のガンコ娘で、同僚とはりあい恋人とはりあい、張りのない野呂なんか念頭にもない。野呂と金森は散歩中、戦記物で売りだし今は時めく代議士の五津元大佐に会釈された、というので大感激、警官の甲賀をまじえ外食券食堂で五津礼讃の一くさりをはじめる。途中から一枚加わった学生泡田と甲賀が、話のはしばしに互いの身分を知り、掴みあいとなる。つられて食堂中が大格闘、野呂は丼をもってにげだした。この顛末にもこりず、野呂は学生ちの誘いにのってメーデーに参加宮城前の紛糾にまきこまれて拘置される。同じ署内に選挙違反で検挙された五津もいたが、前後して裟婆に出てからは、五津は「牢獄記」出版でまたまた大ヒット、野呂は学校もクビ、しごと探しに必死である。漸く金森の妻らんの世話でミシン会社荷造り係の口がみつかり、今や入社詮衡へでかけよう、というまぎわ、カン子自殺未遂の報がくる。恋人との結婚を反対されてカンシャクをおこしたのである。が、無我夢中の野呂は「人でなし！」と呼ばうらんの声を背に、とっととわき目もふらず詮衡場へかけつけた。...

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

市役所の市民課長・渡辺勘治は30年間無欠勤のまじめな男。ある日、渡辺は自分が胃癌であることを知る。命が残り少ないと悟ったとき、渡辺はこれまでの事なかれ主義的生き方に疑問を抱く。そして、初めて真剣に申請書類に目を通す。そこで彼の目に留まったのが市民から出されていた下水溜まりの埋め立てと小公園建設に関する陳情書だった……。

Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student at K University and was a figure player. They had a dream of being dispatched to Oslo in the Olympic Games and were struggling in each way. Mizuno who runs a sports equipment store in Ginza, showed the geisha by guiding the junior's Ikeuchi and others to the shop of Shimbashi one day.

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his disciple Uchiyama and his best friend prosecutor Daisuke Toki accused his music as a sesame of pause-only technique, not a truly heart-hungry art.

Clothes of Deception initiated Yoshimura’s most characteristic vein. This geisha story is often described as a loose remake of Mizoguchi’s pre-war masterpiece Sisters of Gion (1936), but this is inexact. Whereas in Mizoguchi’s study of two sisters, both women had been geisha, in Yoshimura’s film only Kimicho (Kyo Machiko) is, while her sister works in the Kyoto tourist office. Juxtaposing a traditional Kyoto profession with a modern one, Yoshimura shows how life in the old capital was changing in the wake of wider transformations in Japanese society.

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.

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young man from Tokyo.

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.

楽しくなるはずの日曜日のデートでことごとく厳しい現実に遭遇して落ち込む恋人たちが、最後にはそれでも明るい未来に希望を抱き絆を強める姿を巨匠・黒澤明監督が描いた瑞々しい感動編。とある日曜日にデートを計画した雄造と昌子。でも、手持ちのお金はたった35円。お金がないなりになんとか工夫して楽しいデートをと考えるのだが、そんな二人に容赦ない現実が待っていた。すっかり惨めな気持ちになって帰路につく二人だったが…。

黒澤明監督の戦後最初の監督作品。京大・滝川事件とゾルゲ・スパイ事件をモチーフに、ファシズムの吹き荒れる時代にあって自らの信念に基づいて強く生きる女性の姿を謳い上げたドラマ。国民的アイドル原節子が芯の強いヒロインを好演。昭和8年。京都帝国大学の教授・八木原の教え子たちにとって教授の一人娘、幸枝は憧れの的。野毛、糸川の二人の学生も幸枝に想いを寄せていた。秀才型で日和見的な糸川に対して実直で行動派の野毛。軍国主義が強まる中、野毛が左翼運動へと身を投じる一方、糸川はひたすらに法曹の道を目指していた。やがて、幸枝は信念を持って行動する野毛に魅力を感じ始めるのだったが……。

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with one of them working with her dead fiancé's sister. The engaged man had gone to war and never returned.

Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques. Mikami is posted as a staff officer at a base on an island in the Pacific. Kawakami and Murakami later joins him as the base squardron is reinforced. The enemy task force approaches the island and all three of them attack the fleet, killing themselves in the process.

A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him, leading the once promising actor to a life on the streets. But his desire to win back the respect of his father and the affection of the dead actor's daughter pushes him toward a more noble existence. Naruse employed a delicately structured mise-en-scene in this family melodrama, which evokes the work of Josef von Sternberg.

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

主力選手が出征し、成績が上がらない職業野球団アトラス軍。監督の姪・秀子は野球好きのおてんば娘。秀子は応援歌を作ってスタンドからエールを送る。 そのおかげかアトラス軍は大勝利。しかし、秀子の両親は彼女が球場に行くのには反対だった…。当時のプロ野球のスター選手たちが多数出演した青春映画。

When Kaoru's sister-in-law Miyoko arrives at the family home, tender feelings start to grow between the two. However, the initial happiness that Kaoru finds in the company of her beautiful sister-in-law is frustrated by her brother Mitsuo, Miyoko's husband, who intervenes in their budding passion. Full of unspoken words, deeply suggestive mise-en-scène, and forbidden glances, Fukujuso is a compelling melodrama that surprises us with its potent homoeroticism, especially considering its year of production.

When Kaoru's sister-in-law Miyoko arrives at the family home, tender feelings start to grow between the two. However, the initial happiness that Kaoru finds in the company of her beautiful sister-in-law is frustrated by her brother Mitsuo, Miyoko's husband, who intervenes in their budding passion. Full of unspoken words, deeply suggestive mise-en-scène, and forbidden glances, Fukujuso is a compelling melodrama that surprises us with its potent homoeroticism, especially considering its year of production.