Shōji Yasui

İnsan Manzaraları serisinin 2. filminde Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai) askere çağrılmıştır. Orduya ve savaşa karşı bir kişiliğe sahip olmakla birlikte iyi bir asker olarak dikkat çeken Kaji, aynı zamanda başına geleceklerden hiç çekinmeden doğru bildiklerini söylemeye devam etmektedir. Usta askerlere karşı kendisi gibi acemi erleri savunmaya çalışan Kaji, kendisi usta asker olup acemilerin eğitiminden sorumlu tutulduğunda tüm zorluklara karşın insani tutumunu sürdürmeye çalışacaktır. Ancak artık Japonya gerilemeye başlamış, Sovyet tehlikesi iyice yaklaşmıştır.

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.

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.

Mokichi Asai is a widowed father living in Nara with three daughters—Chizuru, Ayako, and Setsuko. The youngest, Setsuko, plays matchmaker for her older sisters, leading to humorous and awkward romantic entanglements.

Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga, provides little happiness. His manipulative mother adds further complications through her constant interference and attempts at defeating the Nobunaga family.

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei’s painting was praised by a great printer at the completion ceremony of the art gallery. Since he became successful as a painter, but he looked quite indifferent. Around the same time, Shohei’s sister brought Sohei’s pictures to the gallery and Shokichi noticed that she was a daughter of his first love.

A veteran reporter and a young journalist doggedly pursue clues through sheer persistence and intuition to unravel the mystery behind the sudden death of a teacher in the remote Hokuriku region. In pursuit of the truth, they are led to a web of corporate fraud, an inbred village, bundles of toilet paper, and flatfoots with something to hide as the bodies pile up.

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Akiyama JNR president was found dead.

Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong Kong, where personal ties and painful secrets unravel a complex web of betrayal. As love, family, and justice collide, Matsumoto must face a truth too deep to escape—and a loss too great to mend.

Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothing" from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.

Set during the Meiji period (1868-1912), Kaede is the former mistress of a wealthy merchant. When he dies, she is forced out on the street and forced to give up her young daughter to the merchant’s family.

The epic battles between the Heike and Genji (Taira and Minamoto clans) take centerstage as the defeated leader of the Genji, Minamoto Yoritomo resolves to end his clan's exile and avenge the brutal loss in December, 1159 as they had fought under the white banner of the Emperor, while the Taira fought under their red flags in a battle to the death. The fight only took one day, with the Genji suffering utter defeat which led to their exile. His father, Yoshitomo, took responsibility for the loss and rather than live in humiliation, he decides to commit suicide with all his sons following him. However, the bravest warrior among them, Yoritomo stands tall and declares that he will not kill himself, but rather will fight to restore the clan.

1962 Japanese movie

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a city council member. Evidence about the case leads the D.A. to Tachibana, struggling to go straight after involvement with the mob and a prison sentence for killing the man responsible for the rape and suicide of his fiancée. One of Tachibana's friends is Keiko, the daughter of the dead councilman and the ward of another powerful official. How do these stories connect?

The story of the tender love between Junki, the son of a wealthy landowner, and Kayuki, the daughter of a forester, who decided to unite their destinies against their parents' wishes. Neither war nor years of separation could kill this love. It was only cut short by Kayuki's tragic death.

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.

"Ako Roshi" is a group of 47 former retainers of Lord Asano. Lord Asano was forced to commit suicide after attempting to kill Lord Kira. Once the retainers hear about their Lord's death, they sacrifice their lives to regain the honor of their former master.

Set in New York , three friends fall in love with the same woman, causing their feelings to waver between friendship and love. One day, Kosuke Kosuke, who works in the publicity department of a film company in New York, has a fateful encounter with Kawakami Makoto, a hair and makeup assistant. It's like an encounter in a Hollywood movie, something Kosuke has always dreamed of. However, just a few hours later, Makoto has another fateful encounter with a man. The man turns out to be a freelance photographer, Higuchi Norito, Kosuke's best friend from college...