Ken Mitsuda

On dokuzuncu yüzyılda Tokyo'da Genç Dr Noboru Yasumoto yaz için lisansüstü tıp eğitimi yapmak üzere bir kırsal kliniğe Akahigenin rehberliği altında ( "Kızıl sakallı"), Dr Kyoj Niide görevlendirilmiştir. Dr. Niide bir zalim görev gibi görünsede gerçekte şefkatli bir insan olduğu ortaya çıkacaktır.

A high school girl kills her father's mistress.

Kin dolu genç, babasının intiharının arkasında yatanları araştırmak için yozlaşmış bir fabrika yöneticisinin kızıyla evlenir. Film kısaca Japonya'daki devlet dairelerinde meydana gelen rüşvet olayları ve bunun sonucunda babasını kaybeden Sai adlı gencin iyi planlanmış intikamını anlatıyor.

"Merhamet duygusu olmayan biri artık insan değil demektir" Orta Çağ Japonya'sında özgürlüklükçü politikaları yüzünden sürgüne gönderilen vali Taira, oğlu Zushio'ya böyle söyler. Zushio, annesi Tamaki ( muhteşem Kinuyo Tanaka) ve kız kardeşi Anju'yla beraber ailesinin topraklarından kaçar. Bir rahibenin ele verdiği Zushio ve Anju, zalim Sansho'nun (Eitaro Shindo) yönettiği çok büyük bir esir kampına gönderilirler. Anneleri de kaçırılarak uzakta ki bir adaya götürülüp Fuhuşa itilir. Böylece, sinema adına yapılmış en dokunaklı ve felsefi yolculuklardan biri başlar. Kenji Mizoguchi'nin ölümünden kısa bir süre önce çektiği bir dizi başyapıtın belki de doruk noktası olan Efendi Sansho, büyük ölçüde, ağır kamera hareketleriyle ilerleyen karmaşık biçimde tasarlanmış genel planlardan oluşan, yönetmenin imzası haline gelmiş bir görsel Uslubun mükemmeliyetini sergiler; Mizoguchi bu tarzı 1930'lardan itibaren geliştirmeye başlamıştır.

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris, France ("The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by Claude Chabrol); and Marrakesh, Morocco ("The Confidence Man" by Jean-Luc Godard). Godard's segment was not included in the original French cinema release, and Polanski's segment was not included on the 2016 home disc release.

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

Taki dedicated her life to her daughter Miyoko, but they were separated by Taki's parents-in-law. Many years later, they reunite in a party, but Taki falls gravely ill with a long disease. During those years, Miyoki studies Medicine and will be finally able to help her mother.

An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared incompetent, a family-court counselor witnesses his obsession slide into ruin—and asks whether ignoring the atomic threat is any saner.

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Admiral Heihachiro Togo sends his fleet to confront the Russians, with results which stun both nations. Meanwhile, Major Genjiro Akashi makes secret negotiations with the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia, negotiations that have repercussions far beyond the conflict at hand.

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.

Keiko yıllarca fahişe olarak çalışmış, artık işletmeci olarak geri plana çekilmiştir. Ama aşık olduğu adamla bile hayatını birleştiremediği ve tam anlamıyla ekonomik olarak da çıkmazları aşamadığı ve değerlerinden de ödün vermediği hayatı, Keiko üzerinden yıkık ve buruk bir Japonya portresi çizer bize.

An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The situation snowballs out of control, leading to a deadly duel and political fallout which threatens the entire clan. Declared mentally unstable by the corrupt authority, Shinpachi begins his descent into true insanity…

Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released, superimposed cast, a group image of real politicians centered on Shigeru Yoshida and political history after the war.

A literary masterpiece that sharply critiques the ethics of modern romance, featuring a 48-year-old father who burns through the last of his youth with a teenage girl, and a daughter in her twenties who falls in love with a younger man and champions sexual liberation.

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself in.

A series of murders surrounds the 70,000 ryō in buried treasure hidden by the Kanayama Magistrate.

Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his family. They will force him to collect the child's ransom for them.

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.

Pu Zhe, younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko, daughter of an aristocratic family. To the surprise of all, a deep love between Pu Zhe and Ryuko develops and is put to the test when Japan loses the war.

The sexworker who works in Turkish baths plans to make her fortune on the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her boyfriend. However, her plans are turned upside down by the arrival of her half-sister, and her boyfriends unfaithfulness.

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

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...