Yūnosuke Itō

Bay Gondo ulusal ayakkabıcılık şirketinde payı olan bir iş adamıdır. Bir gün şirketteki payını arttırıp şirketteki en büyük söz sahibi olmak için alnının teriyle biriktirdiği her şeyi şirket hisseleri için yatırır ve evini ipotek ettirir. Aynı dönemde çocuğu kaçırılır fakat çocuk bay Gondo nun değil onun hizmetinde çalışan başka bir şahsa aittir. Çocuğu kaçıran kişi ise bu yanlışı fark eder ve daha önce istediği fidyeyi yine bay Gondo dan ister. Bay Gondo parayı verip vermemesi konusunda teredütte kalır.

30 yılını bir masanın başında mühür basarak ve hiçbir iş yapmayarak geçirmiş olan Bay Watanabe 1 yıldan az ömrü kaldığını öğrenince, o güne dek hiç yaşamamış olduğunu hisseder. Ancak yaşama duygusunu kolay kaybetmeye niyetli değildir.

Belediyenin en yüksek mevkisinde bulunan valimsi bir adamın kaçırılacağını ortada komplolardan bahseden 9 samurayı dinleyen bir yabancının devreye girmesiyle başlar. Lakin bu valinin yeğeni olan iori yanındaki 8 samuray ile amcasını kurtarmaya çalışır ve sonradan kendilerine yardımcı olacak Sanjuro'ya rastlarlar. Yorgun samuray Sanjuro, amcası kaçırılan bir genç ile ona amcasını kurtarmakta yardım etmeye kararlı ancak tecrübesiz arkadaşlarına öğretmenlik yapar. Gençler başta Sanjuro'ya güvenmeseler de ondan başka çareleri olmadığının farkındadırlar. Zamanla Sanjuro liderlik ve dövüş yetenekleri ile her bir gencin birer samuray olmasına katkıda bulunur.

Kurosawa'nın ilk dönem filmlerinden olan Stray Dog; ustanın pek el atmadığı polisiye türünde bir film. Kurosawa'nın objektif bir şekilde yaklaştığı, kişileri iyi-kötü şeklinde değerlendirmediği, sadece bir polisin çaldırdığı silahını arama mücadelesini konu alan bir film.

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.

In a remote village where food is scarce, elders who reach the age of 70 are carried by their children to the top of a nearby mountain to die in solitude. Orin, a vibrant 69-year-old grandmother, has accepted her fate — but struggles to prepare the rest of her family for the ritual.

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.

Temmuz, 1943: Japon ordusu kaçmakta. Burma’daki bir müfreze moral bulmak için şarkı söylemektedir. İlham, kopuzu kendi başına öğrenen kopuzcudan, Mizushima’dan gelir. Savaşın sonunda, müfreze Mudon esir kampından ülkelerine geri gönderilmeyi beklerken, Mizushima, bir dağın etrafını sarması gereken bir Japon topluluğunu ortada kalmaları için ikna etmek üzere gönderilir. Fakat bunu başaramaz, İngilizler saldırıda bulunur, bir çok kişi ölür ve arkadaşları Mizushima’nın öldürüldüğünü sanır. Fakat o kurtulur ve bir Budist rahip kılığına bürünür. Arkadaşlarına katılmak için Mudon yolundayken, sürekli gördüğü ölü Japon askerleri onu çok etkiler. Bunun üzerine, arkadaşları onun kendileriyle birlikte Japonya’ya dönmesini isterken; o, kemik ve bedenleri gömen bir dindar hayatı yaşamaya yemin eder.

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.

Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.

A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship.

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.

A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a dark secret.

Soemon, the master of Gidayū-style madcap performances, has gathered the entire tenement block again tonight and is tormenting everyone with his terrible Gidayū singing.

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

In a peaceful town near the Seto Inland Sea, a threatening letter arrives along with the ringing of a telephone... A thriller-comedy that sets this stagnant town ablaze.

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in peaceful celebration.

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...

TV series starring Ikko Furuya, based on the Kosuke Kindaichi mystery novel series by Seishi Yokomizo.