Wataru Konuma

No Japão por volta do século XVIII, nove jovens decidem apresentar uma acusação de corrupção em seu clã ao superintendente local. No entanto, o grupo é traído, mas o ronin Sanjûrô Tsubaki (Toshirô Mifune), um samurai desalinhado e cínico, os salva dos homens do superintendente. Então o tio do líder dos clãs rebeldes, o Chamberlain Mutsuta (Yûnosuke Itô), é seqüestrado e sua esposa e filha são detidas e feitas prisioneiras do superintendente que tenta forçar Mutsuta a escrever uma falsa carta de confissão declarando ser corrupto. Sanjûrô ajuda o grupo a resgatar o Chamberlain e sua família.

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, Who decided to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

A narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for the overdose death of his brother and the subsequent decline and death of their mother. Tsuda acts viciously and with disdain for legal niceties in his exploration of the criminal facts behind the explosion of a freighter in the harbor. He goes undercover with a band of drug smugglers, but his methods threaten to destroy him as well as his case.

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon the wife and the son are left without an update of his status and whether he is alive or not. With the clinic lying dormant the doctor's wife rents the premises to her husband's underling. This is a man who does not accept payment from the poor. The woman, in the meantime, works at a restaurant whose owner being ill has given her additional duties. Her younger sister is an unmarried finance writer who also lives with them. It is both sisters, however, who receive marriage proposals.

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that her fellow workers think the women employees should not have to act in such a servile manner. When the women go on strike over the issue, Setsuko finds herself caught in the middle. When the heir to the company, Ryosuke Tanabe, proposes marriage to Setsuko, she is honored, but realizes that her real affection is for Hitachi.

Um médico bêbado de temperamento esquentado e um gângster com tuberculose muito propenso à violência criam um vínculo instigante. Depois de uma batalha com criminosos rivais, um gangster de pequeno porte é tratado por um médico alcoólatra no Japão do pós-guerra. O médico diagnostica a tuberculose do jovem gângster, e convence-o a iniciar o tratamento. Os dois desfrutam de uma amizade inquieta até que o ex-chefe do gângster seja libertado da prisão e procure assumir o seu bando novamente. O jovem deficiente perde seu status de chefe de gangue e cai no ostracismo, e finalmente confronta seu ex-chefe em uma batalha até a morte. Um dos filmes mais violentos do diretor. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)