Sachiko Mitsumoto

A l'aube de la Restauration de l'empereur Meiji, un samouraï de basse caste, Munezo Katagiri, secrètement amoureux de la servante Kie, se trouve pris dans les luttes politiques entre clans. On lui ordonne de tuer son ancien ami Hazama, condamné à la suite d'un complot qui a ébranlé le clan. Il est écartelé entre son devoir, son amour impossible pour Kie, d'une caste inférieure, et la fidélité à son compagnon de sabre...

Tora-San, un colporteur ambulant qui est expulsé de la maison de son père vingt ans auparavant mais renoue avec sa tante, son oncle et sa sœur Sakura. Tora fait des ravages dans leur vie, comme se saouler et faire l'idiot lors d'une réunion de mariage et ruiner la chance de Sakura d'épouser quelqu'un, tout en étant une vraie plaie pour ceux qui l'entourent. Il y a aussi un côté sentimental chez lui, et la meilleure façon de le décrire est qu'il grandit avec vous.

Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterious band of murderers wage a bloody battle against three deadly assassins.

Kiku, la mère de Tora, revient à Tôkyô pour la première fois en trente ans. Tora veut organiser une rencontre avec Sakura. Une terrible dispute met fin à ce projet. Fâché, Tora repart sur les routes.

The story of a timid samurai attempting to rid his name of the stigma attached to it.

The loyal Sōma clan samurai Tange Samanosuke is attacked and mutilated as the result of a betrayal, losing his right eye and right arm. He then begins to lead the life of a nihilistic ronin, using the pseudonym Sazen.

Set in a sushi restaurant in Tokyo shortly after the end of the war, the story follows a stubborn, old-fashioned master and his hot-tempered, brash apprentice growing up among the warm-hearted people of downtown Tokyo.

The 5th NHK Asadora. Starring Chishuu Ryuu as an old man who begins to travel after he retires. From a story written for television by Yasunari Kawabata.

After being carried in his mother’s womb for three years, Benkei is born with long hair and teeth and the body of a small child. It is said that he immediately laughed and commented on the brightness of the outside world, leading local people in his native Kii (modern Wakayama) to proclaim that he is a devil. Abandoned on a mountainside, he is adopted by Dainagon, a Kyoto resident who rears him until age seven when he leaves to become a monk. Thrown out of the monastery for his violent behavior, Benkei wanders Japan in search of enlightenment, though only trouble seems to find him. After accidentally causing a temple to burn down, he decides to begin a quest to defeat 1,000 of the hated Heike samurai in battle and donate their swords to a temple. Obtaining the first 999 swords proves relatively easy but the final weapon belongs to Yoshitsune, a young boy whose appearance belies his great skill as a warrior.