A háború utáni alvilágban egy frissen előléptetett ifjú rendőr - idős felettese segítségével - elkeseredetten nyomoz ellopott pisztolya után, amellyel közben gyilkosságot követtek el...
In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
Goethe Faustjának és Genshin Ojoyoshujának, valamint az alvilág kínjairól szóló X. századi buddhista értekezésnek a szentségtörő egyesülésében megfoganva, a Jigoku volt az utolsó darabja annak a kilenc újító és eszelősen különc horrorfilmnek, amiket Nakagawa az 1950-es években forgatott a zsánerfilmeket gyártó Shintoho Studiónál. Túlcsorduló, bugyborékoló sós tavaival, erőteljes hang-kép orgiájával, az olykor teljesen irracionális cselekménnyel, a szem ellen intézett, könyörtelen montázsrohamaival a Jigoku több mint csupán egy, a határokat átlépő, nagy, klasszikus horror: a filmvásznon addig soha nem látott, egyedülálló mű az üdvözülés nélküli bűnről.
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.
A film Jiro Osaragi Munekata kyodai című novellája alapján készült, Munekata Setsuko és húga, Mariko történetét meséli el. Az idősebbik lány, Setsuko, a hagyománytisztelő japán feleség, aki zokszó nélkül kiszolgálja léhűtő, alkoholista férjét, úgy, hogy közben egy bárt is vezet. Húga, a modern felfogású Mariko nem igazán jön ki jól vele, ódivatúnak tartja. Ráadásul a bárt sem szereti, sógorát, Miramurát pedig egyenesen rühelli, amiért kihasználja nővérét. Tudja, hogy Setsuko még mindig szerelmes egykori kérőjébe, Hiroshiba és elhatározza, hogy - mivel egy csúnya veszekedés után nővére válni akar - összehozza őket. De közben meghal a sógora. (kilencesterv.com)
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.
The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshida's 1952 book "Requiem for the Battleship 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.