Isao Kimura

Usta Samuray Kambei'nin cesareti ve fedakarlığına şahit olan bir grup köylü ondan sürekli olarak haydutların baskınlarına uğrayan köylerini korumasını isterler. Kambei bu isteği herhangi bir çıkarı olmamasına rağmen kabul eder ve ilk olarak kısa süre sonra müridi olan genç samuray Katsushiro'yu, ardından da güç kullanmaya meraklı bir samuray olarak görünen fakat sonradan bir çiftçinin oğlu olduğu ortaya çıkan Kikuchiyo'yu yanına alır. Takımına dört yeni samuray daha ekleyerek köyü savunmaya girişen Kambei köylüler tarafından sevinçle karşılanır ve herkesin sevgisini kazanır; bir süre sonra onlara kendilerini savunmayı öğretmeye başlar. Bu arada haydutlar köyün sınırlarında dolaşmakta ve yeni saldırıları için uygun bir zaman kollamaktadırlar...

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.

Shakespeare'in Macbeth'inin ortaçağ Japonya'sına uyarlaması olan film, imparatorluk-derebeylik içindeki hırs mücadelesini işliyor. Lord Washizu ve Lord Miki, büyük bir askeri zaferin ardından Cobweb ormanında kaybolurlar. Burada Washizu'nun geleceğinde görkemli şeyler gören, Miki'nin soyundan gelecekler için daha da görkemli şeyler tahmin eden gizemli bir yaşlı kadınla karşılaşırlar. Hırslı eşinin de kışkırtmasıyla Washizu İmparator'u öldürmek pahasına da olsa bu kehanetin daha da fazlasını gerçekleştirmek için planlar yapmaya girişir.

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.

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.

Chikako, who was living in a room at a temple affiliated with Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto while attending a women’s college, was deeply shocked when her boyfriend, Hashida, coldly rejected her after she told him she was pregnant.

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destroy him, and when that fails, unleashes the fury of every remaining member of the Yagyu clan.

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte, Jinen, who has observed the profligacy of his cruel master and Satoko's utter dependence on the man. Jinen is both fascinated and disturbed by Satoko's interest in him; he is similarly caught between loathing of Kikuchi and of the dark circumstances of his birth and his own moral weakness. The story unfolds in a dreamlike manner—a flashback inspired by a now-infamous image on a silkscreen in the souvenir shop at the so-called Temple of the Wild Geese.

The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the end of Japan's feudal age with the 1868 Restoration.

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness.

The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his former fellow soldier), old lady Osugi (still doggedly trying to defeat Musashi), and even the return of Priest Takuan (the man responsible for his journey towards enlightenment). But most of all, the boastful, long-haired and long-sworded Sasaki Kojiro.

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn about Kitani's past and reasons behind his prison sentence.

A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.

In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicious. He sides with the Toyotomi at Sekigahara, and as a result finds himself on the losing side of the historic battle. He and his friend Matahachi manage to escape the slaughter although the latter is wounded in his leg. They stumble across the young Akemi who makes her living with her mother Oko by robbing corpses of their armor and anything else they can sell. Oko takes it into her head to seduce Matahachi, which she does first by skillfully sucking the gangrene from his blood, and then just by sucking.

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial laborers who can get little pay, society outcasts, and of course, lovers. Junai Monogatari depicts, mostly, their struggles within the Japanese reformatory system and Mitsuko's worsening sickness.

Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing demeanor and constant demands for money lead Yoshie down a dark path.

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of a young left-wing student activist disenchanted by the increasingly hawkish state of Japanese society.

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.

Based on a novella in the Kyosuke Kozu series. The story depicts the meeting between Kyosuke Kozu and Kenzo Matsushita, as well as student dorm life and social customs in the 1930s, and the social climate following the Second Sino-Japanese War.

In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them has experienced a traumatic event which contributes to their particular enjoyment of becoming someone else in dramatic roles.

The 24th NHK Asadora. Starring Senri Yamazaki as a woman who makes her life at a fishing port.