Dem jungen Inspektor Murakami wird in einem überfüllten Bus der Dienstrevolver gestohlen. Beschämt reicht er seinen Rücktritt ein, doch sein Vorgesetzter setzt ihn mit Inspektor Satô zur Aufklärung eines weiteren Diebstahls ein. Bei ihren Ermittlungen stoßen die beiden auf einen illegalen Waffenhandel. Unterdessen wird bei einem Raubüberfall eine Frau mit Murakamis Waffe verletzt. Der Polizist fühlt sich für das Verbrechen verantwortlich. Die Situation spitzt sich für ihn zu, als sein Kollege Satô mit besagter Pistole angeschossen wird...
In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
Der Theologiestudent Shirô ist als Beifahrer mit seinem Kommilitonen Tamura unterwegs, als dieser einen offensichtlich angetrunkenen Spaziergänger überfährt. Tamura und Shirô begehen Fahrerflucht, doch die Mutter des Opfers hat den Unfallhergang beobachtet. Weil Shirô Gewissensbisse plagen, fährt er mit seiner Freundin Yukiko, der Tochter seines Theologieprofessors, zur Polizei. Auf dem Weg dorthin verunglückt jedoch das Fahrzeug und Yukiko stirbt. Zu allem Überfluss erfährt Shirô auch noch, dass seine Mutter sterbenskrank ist, weshalb er zu ihr aufs Land fährt. Doch auch die Mutter und die Witwe des Unfallopfers sind auf dem Weg dorthin und das ansässige Altenheim scheint im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes ein Vorhof zur Hölle zu sein…
Yuri is looking forward to marrying her fiancé Minoru. However, a few days before the wedding she falls victim to his brother Takehiko, and against her will, she becomes Takehiko's wife. The day after the wedding, Yuri begins her silent revenge by not talking to her husband. She retains her love for Minoru and never gives herself to Takehiko's embrace again. She also contributes large sums of money from Takehiko's fortune to charity.
Ariadne provides videophone counseling for modern people who are worried about sex. Princess Tsubaki, a member of the dispatch team, relieves Furuya, who is suffering from her uniform fetish, through therapy. Afterwards, Princess Tsubaki is kidnapped by Yamakawa, a maniac who holds a grudge against her and her shaving enthusiast. Ariadne goes to therapy with Haruka and Saburo who are worried about sexlessness, but... Women engage in sex therapy using the mysterious "orgone energy" of the cosmos.
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.
This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.
Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and its combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.
Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro Sofue, and he's always wearing shades in the daytime...
The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her.
Film über das größte Schlachtschiff des zweiten Weltkriegs, Yamato.
Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.
Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason that consigns the innocent man to torture and a firing squad. The lieutenant rapes the wife, but is haunted by bad dreams which after he is assigned to a battalion with the victim’s brother.
A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind. It's up to valiant superhero Starman from the Emerald Planet to save the human race before it's too late.
Gosho’s most celebrated film both in Japan and the West, Where Chimneys Are Seen is perhaps the most compelling example of his concern for, and insights into, the everyday lives of lower-middle-class people. Based on Rinzo Shiina’s novel of the absurd, the film depicts the lives of two couples against the backdrop of Tokyo’s growing industrialization during the 1950s.