Kappei Matsumoto

250 yıllık bir lanet ve nehirde saklı duran hayaletler artık su yüzüne çıkıyor. Bundan tam 250 yıl önce Shinzaemon adlı zalim bir samuray tefecilik yapan Soetsu'yu öldürür ve cesedini nehire atar. Ancak bu nehirle ilgili bir efsane vardır. Nehirde batan ceset, su yüzüne bir daha asla çıkamayacaktır. Aradan 20 yıl geçer ve Shinzaemon'un oğlu bir tesadüf sonucu karşılaştığı Soetsu'nun kızına aşık olur. Ancak önce kendilerini bekleyen lanet ve nehirin sakladığı hayaletlerle yüzleşmek zorunda kalacaktır * Klasik 12 Japon hayalet hikayesinin toplandığı kitabın adıdır Kwaidan. Usta yönetmen Kobayashi bu hikayeleri inanılmaz yorumlamıştır. Film değil sanki herbiri üzerinden yıllarca çalışılmış paha biçilmez resimlerdir.

Akademi Ödüllü Akira Kurosawa (The Seven Samurai, Ran) kariyerinin en samimi draması'(Los Angeles Times) nı sunuyor. Görsel olarak muhteşem, dokunaklı ve enfes bir destan. Nagasaki'yi çevreleyen göz kamaştırıcı kırsal alanlarda yaşanan bu hikaye, bir zamanlar savaşla parçalanmış bir Japon Ailesinin Amerikalı kuzenleriyle (Richard Gere) karşılaşmaları sonrası kendi iç hesaplaşmaları. Nagasaki ailesinin yaşlı reisi Sachiko Murase uzun yıllar boyunca 2.Dünya Savaşı'ndan kalan korkularıyla yaşamıştır. Daha önce görmediği erkek kardeşinin ortaya çıkmasıyla, Amerika'ya karşı duyduğu hisler ve peşini bırakmayan geçmişiyle yüzleşmek zorunda kalır. Kardeşini ve ailesini görmeye gitmeyi reddetmesine rağmen oğlu Clark (Gere)'ın ziyarete gelişiyle Sachiko ve ailesi şaşırtıcı ve duygusal günler geçirirler. Bir affediş öyküsü olan Rapsody In August, 'görsel olarak görkemli' (The New York Times), 'zorlayıcı' (Boxoffice) ve 'dokunaklı ve muhteşem' (Time)!

An ominous skull at a wedding venue; a series of chilling, mysterious incidents befalling a wealthy man whose heads of the family have gone missing on their wedding nights; and a mysterious white-haired demon driven mad by revenge!

A heartbroken beauty has slipped into the ranks of the "Golden Horse" circus troupe. The circus's two star performers, vying for her affection, face off on a perilous trapeze, staking their love and friendship on the outcome.

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

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.

Chieko Izumi is a reporter for the magazine "Weekly Japanese Women". She had come to Tokyo to stay with her aunt in order to escape her stubborn grandmother in her hometown in Kyushu, who was trying to force her to marry Komori, the local ringleader.

Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.

Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer, is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin against the Shogunate. His faithful servant gathers the 100 ryo required for his acceptance. Gengobe is also in love with a greedy geisha named Koman. About to be sold to another man, Gengobe learns that in order to keep her, her debt is exactly 100 ryo.

Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.

In 17th-century Japan, two Portuguese Jesuit priests seek their mentor, who is rumoured to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the amendment of the Peace Preservation Law, and was assassinated by a rightist prior to his opposition speech.

In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure years of tribulations until he can return.

On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was determined. Detectives Hayashi, Kaneko, Nagata and Yamagata begin their investigation, suspecting the parents of the murdered child. They use a towel, baby diapers and bruises on the baby's body as clues in the investigation. Who killed the baby?

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to his moral scruples, thus getting his company into trouble.

Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.

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.

A burnt corpse of a man was found in Okutama. As a result of the investigation, it turns out that the criminal strangled the victim with a bandage, smashed his face with an oil canister and burned the body, trying to hide the identity of the victim. But the investigation establishes that the victim is a former criminal named Hisashi Sayama. According to Sayama's daughter-in-law, a man named Kitamura got him a job, so he left home with a copy of the family register. Trying to find the killer, the First Investigation Department is investigating all over the country, including Akita, Yokkaichi and Okinawa.

As supernatural events and monster attacks rock Japan, the military and government look to be overwhelmed. Three intrepid young investigators—two pilots and a reporter—take it upon themselves to study these unexplained phenomena in order to inform and protect the public.