Masao Tochizawa

Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsutomu manages to have his way with her. Coming from a broken home, he is frightened by love, so he cruelly allows her to wake up alone. A month passes and a more grown-up Tsutomu returns. The lovers joyously reunite and move in together. All is blissful until both notice a strange sore on Mitsu's arm. The doctors diagnose it as leprosy. Without telling Tsutomu, Mitsu checks into a leper sanitarium. Hanging out with society's pariahs gives her much insight. She discovers the old lepers to be wonderful people. In turn, Mitsu becomes their source of joy and renewed hope. Still, she misses her Tsutomu. One day, the doctors inform her that they erred and that the sore is not leprosy. Happily she heads back to her true love until she realizes with a guilty pang that to return to him would mean unhappiness for her newfound friends

A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.

A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.

Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial accident. He lives with his elderly mother and wife near Mt. Aso in rural Kyushu. He seeks solace in a small religious group run by Buddhist nun Chishu-bo who claims to be the 68th descendant of famed 11th century poet Izumi Shikibu. The members of her sect regard her as a living saint. Yet instead of balming his soul, she riles his libido by playing a sexual cat-and-mouse game with the fragile Toyoichi. When she does bed him, it leads to a miracle healing -- followed by a terrible calamity.

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.

At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level military adventurer, Iheiji sets up chains of brothels throughout Asia. As Japan's power in the region grows, so does Iheiji's prosperity and patriotism.

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。

深沢七郎の同名小説の、木下恵介監督作品に次ぐ2度目の映画化。今村昌平監督が、因習により山に捨てられる老婆と、その息子の心の葛藤を描いた人間ドラマ。1983年のカンヌ国際映画祭グランプリ受賞。信州の山深い寒村。いまだ元気に働くおりんだったが、今年、楢山まいりを迎えようとしていた。それは、70歳の冬に皆、息子に背負われ楢山へ捨て置かれるという村の掟のこと。神に召されると喜ぶおりんに対し、息子・辰平は気持ちの整理がつかない……。

Director Koreyoshi Kurahara chronicles the lives of Flep and Leila, two foxes living in northern Japan. First, Flep must fight for Leila before the two can become partners and mate. After Flep defeats another male fox, he and Leila eventually produce a group of five cubs. However, with their family complete, the group must deal with human interferences in their habitat, such as chicken farms and snowmobiles, and fight against the debilitating cold of winter.

“In Search of Unreturned Soldiers was about former soldiers of the Japanese army who chose not to return to Japan after the war. I found several of them who had remained in Thailand. Two years later, I invited one of them to make his first return visit to Japan and documented it in Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home. During the filming, my subject Fujita asked me to buy him a cleaver so that he could kill his ‘vicious brother.’ I was shocked, and asked him to wait a day so that I could plan how to film the scene. By the next morning, to my relief, Fujita had calmed down and changed his mind about killing his brother. But I couldn’t have had a sharper insight into the ethical questions provoked by this kind of documentary filmmaking.” —Shôhei Imamura

By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under the control of cruel & armed pirates. Imamura will come to meet those men in order to understand their position.

A documentary film showcasing life in postwar Japan as seen through the eyes of a bar hostess.

現代文明と隔絶しているある南の島。二十数年前、島は暴風と津波が猛威を振るう。嵐が過ぎ去ると、根吉の作っている神田に真っ赤な巨岩が出現していた。島民たちは凶事の原因について話し合い、島の神事を司る根吉が妹ウマと淫らな関係にあるためだと彼らを罰する。そんなある日、東京から技師が開発工事の事前調査に訪れた。しかし、調査はことごとく島民の妨害に遭ってしまう。