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While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever...
Onibaba
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai...
Kuroneko
Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant
Life of a Woman
8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak...
River of First Love
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old...
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring...
A Last Note
A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to...
Owl
Shohei works as a doctor in a seaside hospital. One day, a new patient is admitted to the hospital with ovarian cancer. Shohei is surprised to...
Sayonara Color
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...
Lucky Dragon No. 5
Before the Dawn
In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
The Naked Island
A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night.
Kanawa
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha...
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...
The Wolves
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...
Children of Hiroshima
A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.
Mother
A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A...
Adrenaline Drive
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home...
Will to Live
Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents...
Osaka Story