Mariko Okada

Shima Iwashita

Chishû Ryû

Kyôko Kishida

In the early 60's in Tokyo, the widower Hirayama is a former captain from the Japanese navy that works as a manager of a factory and lives with his twenty-four year-old daughter Michiko and his son Kazuo in his house. His older son Koichi is married with Akiko that are compulsive consumers and Akiko financially controls their expenses. Hirayama frequently meets his old friends Kawai and Professor Horie, who is married with a younger wife, to drink in a bar. When their school teacher Sakuma comes to a reunion of Hirayama with old school mates, they learn that the old man lives with his daughter that stayed single to take care of him. Michiko lives a happy life with her father and her brother, but Hirayama feels that it is time to let her go and tries to arrange a marriage for her.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

An Autumn Afternoon

An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

Etsushi Toyokawa

Ittoku Kishibe

Renji Ishibashi

In a remake of a well-known Japanese mystery, a man in Kobe does not have a family. He receives a visitor who is a researcher one day who has noticed that the man has a well-off family in Okayama. This village is called Yatsuhakamura. This family has been there for four hundred years. The man decides to visit his new-found family only for a series of murders to coincide with his arrival. This family's lawyer hires a private investigator who begins working on the crimes.—aghaemi

The 8-Tomb Village

The 8-Tomb Village (1996)

Toshirô Mifune

Ayako Wakao

Kiichi Nakai

A married couple of poor farmers has lost their only child, recently passed away. The woman Tayoshime (Ayako Wakaso) cries out loud to heaven. The father Taketori-no-Miyatsuko (Toshirô Mifune), goes into the forests and sees a strange-kind of electric storm. He finds, in the centre of the burnt land, a strange blue coccoon. It opens up and a small child, with piercingly blue eyes, appears.He takes the child (Miho Nakano) home, and his wife says it's their dead child, Kaya, and she names the new child Kaya as well. This new Kaya (Yasuko Sawaguchi) grows up faster than what humans usually do. She also has a diamond, a kind of star which sometimes speaks to her or shines. Kaya becomes a ravishing beauty, and is kept hidden at her home. Her parents are lucky at harvests, and they become wealthy, although they live still isolated in the countryside. However, she finds a female friend- and through diverse circumstances, Kaya meets three men, and each one of them falls in love with her: 1- Otomo-no-Dainagon or Minister of the Military (Kiichi Nakai), 2- Kuramochi-no-Miko or Minister of Culture (Koasa Shunputei) 3- Abe-no-Udaijin or Minister of Finance (Takatoshi Takeda). They insist on marrying her. Her parents are confused, because they think they cannot make her daughter marry in the traditional way, with an arranged marriage. As Kaya is not human, she can't be happy the human way. So they let her choose. However, she can't choose, and asks each possible suitor to give her a legendary thing. The ministers go away in pursuit of the three objects, leaving their ministerial obligations aside, and without asking the emperor permission to leave. That annoys the Emperor, who demands to see that Shining Princess (Princess Kaguya), as Kaya is now nicknamed, with a view to marry her as well. However, she refuses to see him, while she waits for the return of the three men.The Empress tells the Emperor to let her be, while the emperor's soldiers investigate Kaya and her family.Two of the ministers arrive back. They provide their objects to the emperor, but he discovers that they are false. One of them burns fast, when it was supposed to be not-flammable. The ministers had not got their gifts for Kaya, they had purchased them in the black market, so they are cheated and the tokens of love are fake. However, the third of the ministers arrives with the dragon token.This was what Kaya wanted from the beginning.However, Kaya is not happy. Her jewel shone and told her that she was from the Moon. Her spaceship had had an accident, and she was the only surviving passenger. Now she must return to her country. The winner minister tells her that he would live with her in the moon, but she tells him that he won't be able to breathe in her country. Kaya feels desperate, but she can't do anything. Her parents feel that she's being ungrateful, because they have provided for all her needs during all those years, and treated her as their true child.The emperor hears all about this: next full moon Kaya is going to be taken home. He issues a night curfew, and asks his soldiers to kill anyone or anything appearing at night around Kaya's home. However, that night, a huge spaceship arrives. It abducts Kaya, and neither her parents nor her lover can do anything to prevent it.

Princess from the Moon

Princess from the Moon (1987)

Eitarô Ozawa

Kei Satô

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.

Nippon no Don: Yabohen

Nippon no Don: Yabohen (1977)

Rentarô Mikuni

Seiji Miyaguchi

Jun Hamamura

Ushimatsu (Rentarô Mikuni) is a member of the burakumin caste, a Japanese minority descended from the outcast communities of the feudal era. Discrimination against the burakumin has been officially outlawed, although it is still the de facto way of life in early 20th century Japan. Disguising his background, Ushimatsu is able to attend university and eventually become a schoolteacher himself, but after a friend is murdered, he must risk everything to seek justice.

The Outcast

The Outcast (1962)

Eiji Funakoshi

Kyoko Nagumo

Sonoko, a bored housewife entering middle age, met a young girl, Mitsuko, at a private school of art. Sonoko paints a portrait of her, and when she invite Mitsuko at her house, the two end up locked in a passionate embrace. Unable to think rationally about what she wants, Sonoko becomes steadily more obsessed with her new lover.—Jean-Marc Rocher , corrections by _Benares_

Swastika

Swastika (1964)

Isao Natsuyagi

Atsuko Asano

Masatô Ibu

Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue each other across the countryside, engaging in massive battles of cavalry and infantry. Younger and less brutal, Kagetora must find the strength to be as brutal as his opponent, but at what cost?—Jim Beaver

Heaven and Earth

Heaven and Earth (1990)

Minori Terada

Yôko Shimada

Legendary Japanese director Ichikawa Kons 1976 film The Inugami Family, holds a very special place in Japans long tradition of supernatural suspense. Based on Yokomizo Seishis epic work, the slow-burning family murder mystery is a highly influential title in the directors celebrated filmography and just about required viewing for Japanese cinema fans. When tycoon Inugami Sahei passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marry one of the Inugami grandsons - Sukekiyo, Suketake, or Suketomo - pitting blood against blood. Soon afterwards, members of the family begin to show up dead, one by one. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke is called in to investigate the murders, and the truth is slowly revealed as he happens upon years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret.

The Inugami Family

The Inugami Family (1976)

Mieko Harada

Kunie Tanaka

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.

Hell

Hell (1979)

Kô Nishimura

Tomisaburô Wakayama

Shiho Fujimura

Ishikawa Goemon (Ichikawa Raizo), a talented young ninja, becomes ensnared in a twisted scheme to assassinate Oda Nobunaga, an evil warlord bent on ruling feudal Japan with an iron fist. Deceit, treachery, and entire gangs of enemy ninja lurk around every corner as Goemon travels the countryside to complete his task, win back his honor, and save his skin!—Anonymous

Ninja, a Band of Assassins

Ninja, a Band of Assassins (1962)

Shidô Nakamura

Akira Kubo

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan's most powerful warlord, unifying the country. Rikyu, through the tea ceremony and floral arrangements, tempers his lord, helping Hideyoshi focus on a single flower or be in a simple room where the shape of a cup is of most importance. But other forces fuel Hideyoshi's ambitions: the Portuguese bring a globe and guns, and he believes he can conquer Korea and China. When Rikyu raises doubts about invading China, Hideyoshi demands an apology, and Rikyu himself must find courage in the way of tea.—

Rikyu

Rikyu (1989)

Jô Shishido

Keiju Kobayashi

Atsuro Watabe

Two young people meet by chance and fall in love but the woman is diagnosed with leprosy and sent away to a remote mountain sanitorium.

To Love

To Love (1997)

Shigeru Kôyama

Mariko Kaga

A union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was responsible for saving his life as a baby, he falls victim to a manipulative cycle of deceit and revenge.

A Flame at the Pier

A Flame at the Pier (1962)

Nenji Kobayashi

The palmist "blue-moth (Seiga)" is rumored to manipulate the Japanese political and business from behind. Journalist Omoda had inquired into the "blue-moth" but is killed. Sudo who is Omoda's juniors of the newspaper he used to be in took over Omoda's work.—tama

Konoko no nanatsu no oiwai ni

Konoko no nanatsu no oiwai ni (1982)

Eiji Okada

Hiroko Itô

Kôji Mitsui

Jumpei Niki, a Tokyo based entomologist and educator, is in a poor seaside village collecting specimens of sand insects. As it is late in the day and as he has missed the last bus back to the city, some of the local villagers suggest that he spend the night there, they offering to find him a place to stay. That place is the home of a young woman, whose house is located at the bottom of a sand pit accessible only by ladder. He later learns that the woman's husband and child died in a sandstorm, their undiscovered bodies buried somewhere near the house. The next morning as he tries to leave, he finds that the ladder is gone - he realizing that the ladder he climbed down was a rope ladder which is anchored above the pit - meaning that he is trapped with the young woman as the walls of the pit are sand with no grip. He also realizes that this entrapment was the villagers and the young woman's plan for him to stay there permanently to be her helper in the never-ending task of digging out the sand, which if not done will swallow them alive. They are dependent upon the villagers to help remove the sand, but also for their rations including water. He learns that the sand is the young woman's life, and that she knows or wants no other life. Thus, it is no use either to blackmail or kill her as she is willing to live and die by this life, and as such he will surely die if she is dead. His life tasks become to figure out a way to escape while co-exist with the woman in what he considers their prison. As time goes on, he also learns that there are other tasks which will consume him.—Huggo

Woman in the Dunes

Woman in the Dunes (1964)

Tatsuya Nakadai

Kichijirô Ueda

Part three of a trilogy. After the Japanese defeat to the Russians in the last episode, Kaji, the Japanese soldier and humanistic protagonist, leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines. Ultimately, he finds himself in the exact opposite position he held in the first episode: Then a labor manager, Kaji is now a prisoner of war, forced to work for the Russians, who do not seem to hold to the Communist ideals in which Kaji himself had put his faith.—nao209@nyu.edu

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)

Andy Lau

Yasuaki Kurata

Katsuyuki Imagawa

Ben, a Chinese student in Japan, falls for Meng and agrees to help her deliver a tape containing information that could start a war between the yakuza families.

Zodiac Killers

Zodiac Killers (1991)

Isao Hashizume

Haruko Katô

Lloyd Battista

Aldin, a poor traveling water seller rescues a beautiful slave woman named Miriam from a slave auction in Baghdad. They fall in love at first sight and have a tryst, but the evil sheriff arrests Aldin and takes Miriam for himself. After being tortured, Aldin eventually manages to escape only to find his beloved dying in childbirth. Aldin flees the city and has many more bizarre, dangerous and often tragic adventures including finding Ali Baba's cave of wonders where he meets a tomboy outlaw with a serious grudge against the sheriff, landing on a strange island full of beautiful horny naked women, escaping a gigantic man-eating monster and discovering a ship that's actually a wish-granting genie. Eventually, Aldin returns to Baghdad as a much older and bitter man with the intent of becoming the new king and marrying the princess, who may or may not be his illegitimate daughter. However, nothing goes as planned despite the intervention of two quizzical shapeshifting creatures.

A Thousand & One Nights

A Thousand & One Nights (1969)

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