
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi (Tatsuya Nakadai). Read More »
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The Human Condition III: A Soldiers Prayer (1961) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura

Part three of a trilogy. After the Japanese defeat to the Russians in the last episode, Kaji, the Japanese soldier and humanistic protagonist Read More »
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Kokinji Katsura

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army Read More »
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima

In the World War II, the pacifist and humanist Japanese Kaji accepts to travel with his wife Michiko to the tiny Manchurian village Loh Hu Liong Read More »
A Man Vanishes (1967) Shôhei Imamura, Yoshie Hayakawa, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Plastics salesman Oshima disappeared without a word to anyone, and has been missing for two years. Read More »
Intentions of Murder (1964) Shôhei Imamura, Masumi Harukawa, Kô Nishimura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

A housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar. Read More »
Moving (1993) Shinji Sômai, Kiichi Nakai, Junko Sakurada, Tomoko Tabata

Renko, a girl in the sixth grade, is at first unperturbed by her parents’ decision to separate. Read More »
Owls Castle (1999) Masahiro Shinoda, Kiichi Nakai, Mayu Tsuruta, Riona Hazuki

As the great military commander Nobunaga Oda was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins Read More »
Black Rose Ascension (1975) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Shin Kishida, Naomi Tani, Meika Seri

Shin Kishida stars as Juzo, a self-important pinku eiga director plainly modeled on Nagisa Oshima. Read More »
R100 (2013) Hitoshi Matsumoto, Nao Ohmori, Mao Daichi, Shinobu Terajima

An ordinary man with an ordinary life joins a mysterious club. The membership lasts for one year only and there is one rule: no cancellation under any circumstance. Read More »