Masayuki Satō

Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years later, she seeks out the relatives of the pilots when the piano is old and about to be discarded.

Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for fair Fumiko.

Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his boss's enemies almost overwhelming.

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to fantasize about her as the personification of his impending death. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he actually meets the living woman who is the template for his fantasy, and together they tour rural churches. Gradually he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series of challenges which profoundly test the lessons he has learned.

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murderer of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a rail yard.

Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.

A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to another. She dedicates herself to her work, designing and creating plaited cords for kimono.

A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and the inhospitable snowscapes of the north.

사방이 수로로 둘러싸인 좁은 황무지 위에 자리 잡은 선술집 ‘안락정’에는 세상에 발붙일 곳 없는 무뢰한들이 모여 있다. 이들이 하는 일은 네덜란드나 중국에서 들여오는 상품의 밀무역. 한 지붕 아래서 운명을 같이하고 있지만, 일당은 서로를 믿지 않는다. 당국의 수사망이 좁혀지는 가운데, 또 한 건의 의뢰를 처리하는 이들에게 위기가 닥쳐 온다.

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

류노스케는 분노죠오와의 경합을 앞두고 비열한 수를 써 그를 죽음으로 이끈다. 코겐 일도류의 원한을 사게 된 류노스케는 고향을 떠나 신선조에 가담하지만 그의 비열함은 여전하고 분노죠오의 동생인 효마와의 결투를 앞두게 된다. 효마는 류노스케와의 결투를 앞두고 전심전력을 다하여 수련하던 중 도망간 류노스케를 따라 교토로 가게 된다. 거기서 류노스케가 죽인 노인의 손녀인 오마츠를 기방에서 다시 만나게 되고 그녀는 그를 위해 류노스케의 뒤를 캐게 된다. 신선조는 홍쟁으로 어지럽고 끝내 자신의 검에 홀린 류노스케는 정신이 나가 신선조 대원들과 싸움을 벌이게 된다.

Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to assassinate three strangers given to him on a list. However, upon meeting his first potential victim, Oida has second thoughts. Yet, even as he tries to back out, the body count starts climbing. Oida must now try to alert the people on his list of their impending danger, and find out why they are being targeted in the first place.

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.