大阪の団地で祖父母と両親、そして三つ子の姉たちと暮らす小学３年生の渦原琴子、通称こっこは、大家族の温かな愛情に包まれながらいつも不満だらけで、孤独に憧れていた。家と学校という限定された世界の中でいろいろなことに悩み、考えるこっこは、祖父・石太が教えてくれたイマジンという言葉を胸に少しずつ成長していく。
Kenji Shimamura has trouble being intimate with his girlfriend Noriko after a lifetime of watching his parents bicker over his father’s infidelity. After he spurns her advances, causing her to storm off in an offended rage, he decides it’s time to seek psychological help. Unfortunately that costs money and the best way to earn some quick cash in his family is to spy on his dad for his mother. He quickly discovers his dad has a young girlfriend named Yukari. Figuring the best way to deal with this gracefully is to come clean with Yukari he tells her all about their family and the real estate business his parents run together. Unfortunately, however, his plan backfires. Instead of being scared off Yukari applies for a job at the family business and befriends Kenji’s mother, setting up a chain of events that makes things awkward for everyone involved.
Old Man at Post Office
Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.
寛政時代の江戸。老中・松平定信は町人文化の隆盛に危機感を抱き、厳しい弾圧を加え始めていた。そんな中、役者絵の第一人者・歌麿は、定信が江戸出版界の大物・蔦屋重三郎を標的にしていることに気付き、早々と蔦屋のもとから他の版元にくら替えしてしまう。売れっ子の歌麿に逃げられた蔦屋は彼に代わる絵師を探し始め、やがてけがで引退を余儀なくされた元役者のとんぼこと十郎兵衛に、荒削りながら斬新な才能を見いだすが…。
Hiroko's Grandfather
メジャーリーグ、ニューヨーク・ヤンキースの強打者だったジャック・エリオットは、ワールドシリーズでMVPの獲得経験もある選手だが、最近の成績は低迷し自身の不祥事からCMの降板が決まるなどイメージも低下する一方だった。また、ルーキーのリッキー・デイビスとのポジション争いに敗れ、チーム側からトレードの通告を出されてしまう。この時唯一オファーを出したのは日本プロ野球の球団・中日ドラゴンズであった。
1879年、良家の長男として生まれ育った荷風。父の意向に反し早くから文学の道を志した荷風は、やがて玉ノ井の娼家でお雪と出会う。世の中の底辺に生きながらも清らかな心を持つお雪に、荷風は運命的なものを感じ57歳にしてついに結婚の約束をする。が、東京大空襲に見舞われた2人は離れ離れとなってしまう…。
A three parts movie following people forgotten by a society that modernizes at the price of expelling part of its individuals.
A hard working salaryman takes off five days from his busy job and sets off with his wife and two children to visit his parents in his hometown for the 1991 new year holidays. He decides that they will go by car to save on expenses. Unfortunately, the long drive from Tokyo to his hometown becomes a much longer journey than expected due to traffic, sickness and other misfortunes and by the time they arrive three days later, they only have time for a short but happy visit.
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing.
Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Through her responsibility lies in taking care of her girls, she finds purpose in providing a man innocent of a false murder charge and in the process discovers love for the first time in his arms.
Akio Matsumoto
A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean.
A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.
Ichirota Daitojima
小笠原しぶきはマジックを修行している大東島健と出会い、彼の車で旅に出ることにした。しぶきの目的地は大阪、健の目的地は沖縄だ。気の合わない二人は、旅の途中で喧嘩ばかり。浜松で健の叔父のマジックショーがあり、しぶきはその手伝いをする羽目に。しかし健はショーの間、伊勢雅世子というジャズシンガーと会っていた。雅世子にぞっこんな健を見て、しぶきは嫉妬する。車は大阪に着き、二人は別れた。しかししぶきは健のことが気にかかり、姉夫婦が住む沖縄へ旅立っていく。
Otokichi
大阪の旧家、蒔岡家の４姉妹の日常を日本情緒豊かに描いた、名匠・市川崑監督の力作。東宝創立５０周年作品。
The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.
The Man in Black clothes(黒服の男)
Nakata, an author, resides utilizing the painful memory regarding the death of his partner, whoever life had been cut short a few many years earlier. Ended up being it a crash or ended up being it suicide? Doubt persists. In order to escape his guilty Nakata, conscience gives up on marriage and fatherhood. Hence freed, he embarks on an obsessive intimate records and jeorney his activities in a book, "The Dark Room". A philisophical essay on sexuality, reproduction and the fate of mankind.
邦彦がまち子に会ったのは、母の納骨の日の早朝だった。彼が大黒橋の上で道頓堀の絵を書いている時に、足の悪い犬を追ってきた彼女と会ったのだ。邦彦は道頓堀川に面した喫茶店「リバー」の二階に住み込み昼は美術学校に通い、夕方からは店で働いていた。「リバー」のマスター武内の一人息子・政夫は邦彦の高校時代の同級生であり、日本一の玉突きの名人になるといい武内と衝突、家を出ていた。武内は納骨を済ませたその日、精進おとしだといって、邦彦を行きつけの小料理屋「梅の木」に連れていった。邦彦はそこでまち子に再会した。彼女は店のママで、もとは芸者だが今は不動産業を営む田村がパトロンだった。その日から邦彦はカンバスにまち子と足の悪い犬の絵を書くようになった。しばらくして犬がいなくなり、邦彦とまち子は道頓堀川筋を探したが見つからなかった。そのお礼にとまち子は邦彦を夕食に誘い、その夜「梅の木」の二階で二人は結ばれた。息子の不始末を知った武内は政夫を探して、千日前のビリヤード「紅白」を訪れ、そこの女王人ユキから政夫が東京まで勝負に出かけたこと、そして、ユキがかつてビリヤードしていた武内にどうしても勝てなかった玉田という老人の孫娘であることを知らされる。武内は息子と未来を賭けて勝負しようと思い「紅白」で特訓を始めた。その頃まち子はパトロンと別れアパートを借り、邦彦と生活しようと邦彦を探し、口説いた。邦彦が学校を卒業するまでの二年間だけでいいから一緒にいたいというまち子に、邦彦は大きくうなずいた。「紅白」では東京から勝負に負けて帰った政夫と武内の試合が始まった。試合中に武内は政夫が幼ない頃、ビリヤードのために妻の体を他の男に売り、金を作ったことを告白した。父と子の争いを見ていられなくなった邦彦は外へ出ると、「リバー」の常連のかおるが、幇間の石塚に包丁を振りかざしているのを見る。それを止めようと二人の間に入るが一つきに刺されてしまう。帰りの遅い邦彦を待ちながらまち子は窓の外を見ると、いなくなったあの犬がエサを漁っていた。犬を抱き上げ頬ずりするまち子の後を、赤く点滅させたパトカーが、道頓堀の方向へ消えていった。
A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.
Old Fisherman
瀬戸内海のある島を舞台に起る、連続殺人事件を追う金田一耕肋の活躍を描く。横溝正史の同名の小説の映画化で、脚本は「幸福号出帆」の清水邦夫、監督は「夜叉ヶ池」の篠田正浩、撮影も同作の宮川一夫がそれぞれ担当。
Shigesaemon
寛永の時代のある夜、島原の乱で殉死したはずの天草四郎が再び命を取り戻す。彼は自分と同じように不本意な死に追いやられた人々を集め、時の将軍家綱に復讐を開始するが、彼ら魔界衆の前に柳生十兵衛が敢然と立ちふさがった。
Old man
ゴローとさち乃との出会いは第三京浜だった。白いムスタングから放り出されたさち乃を助けたのが、バイクで走っていたゴローだったのだ。二人は同棲を始める。またムスタングを運転していた中年の男も、奇妙な同棲生活を送っていた。さち乃はクイーンエリザベスという名のスナックで働き始める。ゴローは喧嘩をしてバイトを辞めてしまう。ゴローが家を出たため、さち乃は中年の男と会うことにする。
Japanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.
Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she learned that her parents are not her biological parents. Cheiko's mother told her that she was stolen while sleeping under a cherry tree in Gion, Kyoto, Japan, but Chieko doesn't believe that. Her relationship with her parents is very close. Chieko only tells her childhood friend Shinichi, but...
A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daughter, Fuuchan. The movie depicts the warm interaction between her and adults that grew up with the rough history of Okinawa and discrimination from the mainland. Shots partly on location at beach of Itoman, Yogi Park and Hateruma Island. This is the movie version of the well-known novel by Kenjiro Haitani.
The Shadow / Yatabei, the Bellkeeper
Outside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Their story is of revenge, tragedy, and the power of real love. A classical tale which translates wonderfully to film.
不義によって産まれた娘が、成長して母親と同じ罪を犯してしまう。死後、彼女は地獄に堕ち、七大地獄を目の当たりにする。業の恐ろしさを描いた幻想劇。
Welfare Official
東京から急行列車で3時間を要するある地方で、32歳の竹中宗吉は、ようやく、印刷屋の主になるところまで漕ぎつけた。狐のような顔をした妻・お梅との間に、子供はなかった。商売の順調な宗吉は、ある時、料理屋の女中・菊代に惹かれる。何とか菊代を養えそうな気がした宗吉は、彼女と関係を持った。好きな女を囲う身分になれたという充足は出世感に近かった。菊代との間には、3人の子供ができた。しかしその後、近代的な印刷会社の進出や火事により、宗吉の商売は零落する。宗吉から生活費の貰えなくなった菊代が、3人の子を連れて、宗吉の家に乗り込んだため、お梅にも事態が露見する。お梅の仕打ちと女房の前に竦んだ宗吉の腑抜けぶりに、菊代は怒り、出て行ってしまう。3人の子供が残されるが、女房の睨む中、弟は病死、妹は行方不明になり、兄も命を狙われる。
Secretary
岩手で不審なトラックを追跡したパトカーが銃撃される事件が発生。陸上自衛隊の警務部長・江見は、内閣調査室の利倉とともに捜査を進め、一部の自衛隊員によるクーデター計画《皇帝のいない八月》の存在を知る。同じころ、かつて江見の部下だった藤崎はクーデターに加わる一部隊を率い、博多発東京行きの特急さくら号を乗っ取る。だが政府による鎮圧作戦が始まり、藤崎の隊は孤立。藤崎は最後の手段で乗客たちを殺すと脅す。
Based on the novel by Osamu Dazai and distributed by ATG. The story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title) and goes down the stairs to self-destruction step by step.
Shigeru Aoba
At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local nuclear power-plant, are found tied-to on a beach, as if they intended to commit double suicide. Nogami, a reporter, begins to investigate.
Saito
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
Mori Sokichi
東京で暮らしている青年・寺田辰弥は、自分を探していた母方の祖父・井川丑松が目の前で変死したことを機に、生まれ故郷の八つ墓村を訪れる。そこは戦国時代、村人たちによって8人の落ち武者が惨殺されたという忌まわしい歴史をもつ土地だった。帰郷した辰弥の周りでは次々と奇怪な殺人事件が起こり…。 横溝正史の同名ミステリー小説を、巨匠・野村芳太郎監督が映画化。渥美清演じる名探偵・金田一耕助が事件の謎を解き明かす。
明治34年 ロシアとの戦争が差し迫っている中、ロシアの厳しい冬の気候での戦闘経験の乏しい日本軍は寒冷地での戦闘訓練の必要を痛切に感じていた。そこで極寒の気候である青森県八甲田山において雪中行軍演習を執り行うことを決定した。雪中行軍において既に実績を持つ青森歩兵第五連隊神田大尉および第三十一連隊徳島大尉に真冬での八甲田山行軍遂行命令が下る。事前の予備調査では少人数で天候にも恵まれていたため特に問題とはならなかったが、これが冬の八甲田山を軽視する方向に進んでいってしまう。八甲田行軍が始まると事前調査とは比べ物にならないほど天候が荒れ始め、気象記録から過去最大級の低気圧が接近しているため演習の中止を進言する神田大尉であったが、演習責任者である彼を差し置いて同行していた上官は演習中止を許さず冬山を軽視したまま極寒地獄の修羅場となる八甲田山へ死の行軍を続けてしまうのであった…
Japanese drama film.
Seijiro Katakura
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity...
Jikichi Matsumoto
部落解放運動の優れた指導者、松本治一郎の権力に屈せず、闘い抜いた半生を描く。監督は『博奕打ち 総長賭博』の山下耕作。明治41年、治一郎は徴兵検査において被差別部落出身ということで差別した軍の係官と争うが、そのため不合格となり、差別のない世界を求めて大陸へ渡る。しかし大陸も国内同様で、治一郎は失意のうちに帰国し、やがて用水路の工事現場で働くようになる。ここで治一郎は不当な差別に対し敢然と立ち上がり、部落解放運動の道を歩み出す。
Akira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who hang around pachinko parlours. Hiroshi is a ladies' man but always loses at pachinko. Akira is a virgin at 25 but always wins. Hiroshi tries to get Akira laid with little success but things change when Akira is informed of a 88 million yen inheritance.
Shigeyoshi Oki
昭和30年代初頭。町の信用金庫に勤める20歳の楯男には、シナリオ作家になるという夢があった。そんな楯男にとってひそかに想いを寄せる存在が幼なじみの涼子だった。しかし、涼子には恋人がいて、どうすることもできない楯男は、隣家の精神異常の娘と寝てしまう…。
A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.
Mainly 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.
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Hokujoji
The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam Group is a small anarchist organization lead by Daijiro, a silver tongued "Benshi", a performer who provides narratives for silent films, playing multiple roles. In other words, he was a master at the art of deception, a handy talent when it came to 'doing jobs' for his group. His revolutionary ideals attracted many to his squadron, but among them was a young girl who was oblivious to his group's activities. Her name was Shino.
A youthful film depicting the sexual awakening of a boy who has just entered adolescence and his heartbreaking romance during the summer holidays with a young sprightly girl.
Patrolman
ある日、国鉄蒲田操車場構内で扼殺死体が発見された。被害者の身許が分らず、捜査は難航した。が、事件を担当した今西、吉村の両刑事の執念の捜査がやがて、ひとりの著名な音楽家・和賀英良を浮かび上がらせる…。
Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.
Narrator
A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk.
Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru recalls the old days spent on the island with his young, beautiful mother.
Juzo Osugi
About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to survive during and after the war with her son.
Miura Tatewaki
In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.
Public Officer
A young man travels out into the countryside to meet his fiance, Yuko. When he arrives at the secluded house he is told by her mother that she has died in a car accident. He spends the night at the house and hears some strange sounds at night, even seeing someone that looks just like his dead love. Later he sees Yuko outside the house and follows her to a grave with her name. Cut to some days later where the young mans sister is worried since she hasnt heard from him in some time. She persuades her boyfriend to take her to the house, but is told that he already left. For the sake of proper plot development she doesnt believe Yukos mother and fakes the car breaking down so that they can investigate what really happened.
Kanoke-boshi
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
「男はつらいよ」シリーズ第4作。競馬で大儲けした寅さんが、名古屋からタクシーで帰郷。竜造とつねをハワイ旅行に連れて行くことにするが、出発の朝、旅行会社が代金を持ち逃げしたことが判明。メンツが大事な寅さんは、旅行に出かけたフリをして、おいちゃんたちと共に店で静かに潜む。しかし、そこへ泥棒（財津一郎）が入って大騒動。反省の旅に出た寅さんが、戻ってくると、二階には幼稚園の春子先生（栗原小巻）が下宿していた…
Tessai
A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.
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。
Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his brilliant talent in gambling. One late fall at an inn in Kiso Fukushima, Isazo befriends a young boy whose mother turns out to be his old love Yoshino, with whom he was not unable to consummate a marriage due to the class differences between them.
Gohei
大映「妖怪」シリーズの第一弾。一つの怪談を語るたびにロウソクを消していく"百物語"から物語は始まる。悪徳商人・但馬屋が、長屋と氏神の社殿を取り壊して女郎宿を作る計画を立てた。長屋の住人は反対するが、悪代官と結託した但馬屋は強引に計画を進める。
A prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and tortured. The real murderer will be discovered - and the girl will take revenge.
Hirai's father
Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.
Old man
A man sets out to search for his brother among the survivors of Hiroshima after an anonymous letter.
Motohike Kakei - Imperial Household General Affairs Chief
昭和天皇や閣僚たちが御前会議において降伏を決定した1945年（昭和20年）8月14日の正午から、国民に対してラジオ（日本放送協会）の玉音放送を通じてポツダム宣言の受諾を知らせる8月15日正午までの24時間を描いている。
Film from 1967.
Hyoemon Shiomi
「怪談」の小林正樹監督が三船敏郎と初タッグを組み、1967年・第28回ベネチア国際映画祭で国際映画批評家連盟賞を受賞した時代劇。同監督作「切腹」の原作小説「異聞浪人記」で知られる滝口康彦の短編小説「拝領妻始末」をもとに橋本忍が脚色を手がけ、武家社会の非人間性を描く。会津松平藩馬廻り役の笹原伊三郎は、主君・松平正容の側室いちを長男・与五郎の妻に拝領するよう命じられる。息子の幸福な結婚を願う伊三郎は断ろうとするが、藩命に背くことはできず受け入れることに。望んだ結婚ではなかったものの、与五郎といちの間には愛情が芽生え、子どもにも恵まれる。しかし正容の嫡子が急死したことから、新たな世継ぎとなった菊千代の生母であるいちを大奥へ返上するよう命令が下される。
Japanese drama film.
Kahei Iwata
A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen strings, only to find her peaceful life turned upside down when a master musician takes personal interest in her.
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
Druglord
Film by director Kenji Misumi
Blind Biwa Priest
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend’s obsession. Imamura’s comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.
Professor Murase
北極海で大爆発が起き、氷の中に閉じこめられていたカメの大怪獣ガメラを目覚めさせてしまう。北海道に現われたガメラは、エネルギーを求めて地熱発電所を襲撃。自衛隊が応戦するが、ガメラはどんな攻撃も受け付けない。そこで自衛隊は、自力で起き上がれないカメの特性を利用した転倒作戦を考案。ガメラをひっくり返し、飢え死にさせるという狙いは成功したかに見えたが、転倒したガメラは驚くべき方法で起き上がった。
Joshin temple priest
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swordsmen is thrown into turmoil. After Sasuke is unwittingly drawn into the conflict, he tracks Tatewaki, while a mysterious, white-hooded figure seems to hunt them both. By tale’s end, no one is who they seemed to be, and the truth is far more personal than anyone suspected. Director Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy, filled with clan intrigue, ninja spies, and multiple double crosses, marks a bold stylistic departure from swordplay film convention.
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.
怪盗鼠小僧は大江戸の夜の闇をぬっての必死の探索を尻目に、大名や富商を襲っては奪った金銭を貧乏人にばらまいて、庶民の英雄として人気を集めていた。ある夜鼠小僧は浪人小谷新九郎に救われた。そして二人はいつまでたっても浮びあがれない世の中に絶望して、貧乏人のために尽そうと深い友情で結ばれた。
Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.
(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。
柴田錬三郎の原作を「眠狂四郎円月斬り」の星川清司が脚色「座頭市あばれ凧」の池広一夫が監督した眠狂四郎シリーズ四作目。撮影もコンビの竹村康和。
狂四郎は隠れキリシタンの飾り職人・鳥蔵から志摩を守ってほしいと頼まれる。
A man in the morgue
グラマー女房の浮気に悩まされる小柄な亭主が、浮気の相手から500万円をユスリ奪ったことから続発する事件を、エロチックなムードで描いたコミック・スリラー。
Could I But Live
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan's chief counselor who married the low-ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the clan lord's mistress. Into the mix comes Oba Gunjuro (Tetsurō Tamba), a mysterious ronin who will do anything for money. This leads to a fitting climax as the forces of hate and love converge while the couple attempt to break through the border!
Shibukawa Company Commander
主人公は岡山出身の山口善助。無学で貧しいゆえに実社会で辛酸をなめてきた男である。がゆえに「軍隊こそ天国」と信じる男の無垢さと悲しさを、昭和史のなかに描くというスタイルは前作同様。山正のような男がもう一人いたら？
Doctor
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
Kazunori Tago
Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are all under the impression that they are buying Kokusai shirts. Ide begins an investigation to find out where the shirts are being made, but before he is able to uncover anything, he is killed on a train and his little black book, filled with secret data, is stolen. Sugino then starts a one-man search for both the killer and the factory turning out the cheap shirts.
Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.
Jinzaemon Shinohara
Nishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear him any more, attempts to kill him, but without success. Saburouta is rescued by his niece, Keisuke at the last moment. Keisuke is a a good-for-nothing. Since that event, he always turns to his uncle when he needs money. Recently Keisuke feels his uncle isn't as generous as he used to be, he suspects that Saburouta has found out the illicit relation between Keisuke and his uncle's young mistress, Ohasu.
15歳の若枝はうす汚ないバーで酔客と酒を飲み、ヤケクソのように女給のハイヒールをかっぱらってとび出した。東京で仕事に失敗して帰って来た21歳の三郎は、職安通いの空虚な毎日を送っていた。暗く陰うつな北陸の空、金沢の映画館の前で幼ななじみの二人は再会した。三郎はうらぶれた彼女に、なけなしの金からスカートを買ってやった。喜んだ若枝は、のんだくれの父親長吉と、いやな継母のいる家をとび出したわけを話した。若枝をこれ以上堕落させまいと決心した三郎は、翌日から少しずつおくれた勉強を教えてやった。若枝の心にやすらぎがよみがえり、三郎はうれし泣きする彼女の涙をそっとすすってやるのだった…。
Second Creditor
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……。
Isshosai
三上於菟吉の同名時代小説を、伊藤大輔と衣笠貞之助が脚色、和田夏十がシナリオ化し、市川崑がメガホンをとった。1935年版に主演した長谷川一夫が、再び中村雪之丞と闇太郎の二役を演じた。その他、山本富士子や若尾文子、市川雷蔵、勝新太郎など豪華な出演者が顔をそろえた。長谷川一夫300本記念作品。
江戸で興行を張る上方歌舞伎の女形役者・中村雪之丞は、父を冤罪で陥れ自死に至らしめた土部三斎と広海屋の姿を認めた。三斎の娘の浪路は雪之丞に恋をし、雪之丞は彼女を利用して父の仇を討とうとする。江戸の飢饉に乗じて米を買い占めていた川口屋は、雪之丞にそそのかされた広海屋に邪魔され破産、広海屋に放火した。怒った広海屋は川口屋を絞め殺すが、誘拐しようとした浪路に刺されてしまう。
Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him for his "forceful personality," and assigns him to kill evil people, a president of a loan company and a drug baron.
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls school in Jokamachi, where rumors fly. One day, Shinko delivers an anonymous love letter addressed to her English teacher, Ms. Shimazaki. Convinced that the students are playing a prank, Ms. Shimazaki is adamant about getting to the bottom of this "problem”.
Miyoshi
One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.
Older Doctor
The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.
Takashi Fujiki stars as a rebel in this drama about life on the Yokohama waterfront by New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda. The rebel works as an errand boy for a shipping company and vents his frustrations by plucking on the guitar. His interpretations of popular trends in music are sometimes right-on, and sometimes not exactly. Bereft of his guitar, the rebel's modes of expression are not as effective in generating interest as the Yokohama docks themselves, a fascinating world in their own right.
The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was running his business and hitting him with a taxi turned out to be a trifle for him. A unique work, filled with tears and laughter, praising the beautiful human love that blooms at the bottom of life, focused on the genius “General” who lives in the troubled city of Kamagasaki.
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.
Saeki
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling investigation through Tokyo's underworld.
中学3年の石黒ジュン（吉永小百合）は、鋳物工場の直立炉（キューポラ）が立ち並ぶ埼玉県川口市の鋳物職人の長女である。何事にも前向きで、高校進学を目指すジュンだが、父・辰五郎（東野英治郎）が工場を解雇されたため、家計は火の車で、修学旅行に行くことも諦めていた。 自力で高校の入学費用を貯めようと、パチンコ屋でアルバイトを始めるジュン。担任教師の助力で修学旅行にも行けることになった。しかし、ようやく再就職した父親は、待遇が不満で仕事をやめてしまった。絶望したジュンは女友達と遊び歩き、危うく不良少年たちに乱暴されかけた。 全日制の高校進学を取りやめて、就職を決断するジュン。北朝鮮への帰還問題で苦悩する朝鮮人の一家や、貧しくとも力強く生きる人々との交流を通じて、ジュンは、自立して働きながら定時制で学び続けることに意義を見出したのだった。
Ushimatsu's father
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination.
Mitsui
When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
Tatsuo
Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe (and renowned director in his own right) Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women for the affections and commitment of the same man, a handsome car salesman. Masuko (Ayako Wakao) is the number one hostess at a cabaret, living with her lover, ... but finds out that he has a wife. When Masuko’s niece arrives the competition further ratchets up. (Also occasionally known in English as “Inflamation”)
Kamio
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.
Tsubouchi
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.
1962 Japanese movie
A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.
Japanese action film set in Arabia.
Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their “catch.”
Minobe
Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coast guard action stories" was the perfect vehicle for Koji Wada. Whatever negative press he had received for Tokyo Knights was quickly forgotten. He became the new "teen star." And Suzuki: "the director to watch."
Professor Takano
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.
Nitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs but also helps one of the more decent hoodlums find the killer of the hood's brother.
Village Mayor
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.
Shin Nakanishi
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.
Actor
監督・市川崑、脚本・和田夏十の、浮気性の男と妻、そして９人の愛人たちが織りなすブラックコメディ。 テレビプロデューサーの風松吉は、美しい妻・双葉がいながら、９人の女と浮気していた。妻と愛人たちはお互いの存在をそれとなく知っており、松吉が浮気者であるという事も重々承知しているものの、なぜか松吉から離れられないでいた。 あるとき妻と舞台女優で愛人の市子とで松吉を殺す計画が持ち上がる。それは計画を立てることで松吉への鬱憤を晴らすための架空の計画であったのだが、気の小さい松吉は愛人たちが自分を殺そうとしていると思いこみ妻に相談する。妻はあっさり計画を認めた上で、二人で愛人を一掃するために、愛人を集めて松吉を糾弾する会を開き、その席上でピストルで松吉を殺したように見せかけるという狂言殺人を行うことにするが…。
The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.
An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.
Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that he knows he won't be able to afford, a former marksman-turned-bad, Ishioka approaches him. Ishioka is looking for an unaffiliated hit-man who is willing to handle some business. Nakata is just the right man for the job.
Taisuke Nakamizo
Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.
Doctor
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
Detective
Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.
Yoshichi Komuro
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.
Masahiro
A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.
Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association, and he disguises himself.
Nozaki
Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation (Aru kyouhaku) is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
Doctor
On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of his recently deceased father, boss of the Asahina clan. But their exit proves more difficult than planned when their rival clan steps in to exact revenge.
A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.
Doi Chûi
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
大岡昇平の同名小説を、和田夏十が脚色し市川崑が監督した反戦映画。病院にも部隊にも見放された田村は、フィリピン戦線のレイテ島をさまよっていた。同じように敗走している仲間と病院の前で合流するが、その病院が砲撃を受けたため、田村は一人で逃げ出す。食べるものもなく、仲間を失った田村は、草を食べて生き延びていた。やがて生き別れたかつての仲間である永松と安田と再会。二人は殺した味方の兵士を“猿”と称し、その肉を食べていた…。
Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then commit suicide, though Toshio was able to save the lives of their two children. Just transferred from Shimizu to Tokyo, Toshio hopes to produce a program that will expose the drug trade in Tokyo. One day, Toshio stops into a noodle shop where he is mistaken for a drug dealer and passed a bagful of drugs. The real dealer arrives in time to follow Toshio home. That night Toshio is attacked by the dealer, who turns out to be Kenji, one of the children Toshio had saved. Kenji can't bring himself to kill Toshio, so he runs away and goes into hiding from the mafia. While continuing to investigate the drug trade, Toshio searches for Kenji to get Kenji's testimony for his program.
While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a nearby village think she is a monster, the female of a shark killed many years before, responsible for many disappearances.
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Dr. Soma
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife.
Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was Kudaira, a beggar, who discovered it, and immediately sold it to Matsuko - another pauper. Soon, the weapon that moves from hand to hand, becomes a tool of many crimes.
Goichi's Father
溝口吾一は父の親友が住職をつとめる驟閣寺に住み込むことになった。驟閣寺はこの世で最も美しいものと教え込まれた吾一だったが、やがて観光客が多数訪れるようになり、信仰の場ではなく単なる観光地に成り下がってしまうのを目の当たりにする。古谷大学に通うようになった吾一は戸苅という学生と知り合うが、戸苅は驟閣寺の美を批判し、住職の私生活を暴露した。
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially greeted by the effusive welcome of his family, spiteful whispers also reach his ear about an adulterous affair carried on, in his long absence, between his wife and a famous drummer. With Hikokuro’s honor imperiled by rumor, his family insists on a formal investigation into the veracity of the gossip. Through the combined testimony of many witnesses, a tale unwinds around the visits of a traveling musician hired to tutor the family heir, the spurned attentions of the man who started the rumor, and the ultimate truth behind the accusations. The conclusion of events prove as much an indictment of bushidō as it is of the reluctant parties involved. Adapted from a 1706 play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon and based on a true case.
A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and uncover a shady group of criminals with a sinister plot.
A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a woman who works for the gangster and gets framed for a murder he didn't commit.
Boarding House Owner
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei’s painting was praised by a great printer at the completion ceremony of the art gallery. Since he became successful as a painter, but he looked quite indifferent. Around the same time, Shohei’s sister brought Sohei’s pictures to the gallery and Shokichi noticed that she was a daughter of his first love.
Taxi driver
警官の汚職事件の記事を書いた長子は、それが原因で出版社をクビになってしまった。偽の失踪事件を自分で起こしてそのルポを書くことにするのだが、現金横領事件に巻き込まれてしまい…。
The Criminal
Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.
Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors about the murder.
Ito
ビルマにいた日本軍は、国境を越えてタイへ敗走しようとしていた。水島上等兵は現地の斥候に変装し、井上隊長が率いる小隊を国境近くまで移動させていた。しかし国境近くで日本の敗戦を知った彼らは、武器を捨て、南のムドンへ送られることとなる。水島だけは米軍の要請により、いまだに抵抗し続ける日本軍の説得に向かうため、隊を離れた。水島が行方知れずとなったある日、井上小隊は水島によく似たビルマの僧侶とすれ違う。
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families.
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Akiyama JNR president was found dead.
