Une collection de quatre contes populaires japonais aux thèmes surnaturels : Les Cheveux noirs, La Femme des neiges, Hoïchi sans oreilles, Dans un bol de thé.
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival, and Hatsue's father forbids her to see Shinji. But when the boy saves the passengers on a boat owned by Hatsue's father, his luck in love begins to change.
Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, Sasuke takes away his own sight.
Sous prétexte de pouvoir la fréquenter plus facilement, un directeur d'entreprise recrute directement son amante. En fait, ses intentions sont bien moins romantiques : il veut en faire une call-girl pour faciliter la signature de gros contrats avec des américains. Furieuse, l'amante se ligue avec l'épouse et la secrétaire du directeur. Les trois femmes séquestrent et condamnent l'homme à faire l'amour avec elles jusqu'à ce que mort s'ensuive.
Une musicienne itinérante aveugle est maltraitée et opprimée alors qu'elle parcourt le pays, même si le monde moderne impose des changements dans le comportement des gens.
Rokuchan est un jeune garçon qui vit dans un bidonville. Pour s'évader d'un quotidien sinistre, il s'imagine être aux commandes d'un tramway et sillonne le dédale des bas-fonds, où il va faire d'étranges rencontres. Akira Kurosawa entrecroise ici les destins des déclassés, alcooliques et autres rêveurs solitaires dans un style résolument expérimental...
When teacher Kimura is assigned to Yuko’s Class A, 4th Grade, the children are very happy. But they are surprised to hear from her that she is expecting a baby in October. The children have learned many things. They have been brought closer together among themselves and they have gained a closer relationship with their parents. Above all, they have learned about some of the important things in life as they advance toward the still unknown realm of adulthood.
Utae et Aiko fréquentent une école privée réservée aux filles où le principal, dévot religieux, semble abuser de certaines de ces élèves. Utae et Aiko kidnappent leur bourreau et le torturent violemment dans des scènes si diaboliquement sadiennes qu’elles ne pourraient provenir que de la plume de Kyusaku Yumeno, auteur du célèbre DOGRA MAGRA.
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife.
Isamu, a star athlete in high school, becomes a race cyclist. He wins his debut races, but soon his opponents see through his lack of strategy and beat him easily. Isamu's maths teacher, a race cycling freak, says he knows the solution to Isamu's problem. But will Isamu listen to him?
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity...
Alors que Tokyo se prépare à accueillir les jeux olympiques de 1964, Tatsuo, jeune roadie qui rêve de devenir chanteur et d'aller aux Etats-Unis, se laisse convaincre par un musicien de participer au cambriolage d'un établissement de bains turcs où travaille Yasue, sa maîtresse. Mais le cambriolage se passe mal et Tatsuo et Yasue doivent prendre ensemble la fuite.
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy and he tracks down his prey in Kobe.
As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life shrinks in scope and intimacy. She finds new interests, new love, and a greater sense of her place in the world.
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.
A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword instructor, a man whose sword and spear skills are second to none.
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.
Osamu, récemment sorti de maison de correction, fait la rencontre de Yuri, danseuse dans un club de jazz. Osamu y retrouve par hasard Sachio, un jeune homo lui aussi passé par la maison de correction, qui va lui remettre un pistolet. Ils vont commettre quelques vols, jusqu’à ce que les choses tournent mal.
Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his hometown is exceptionally stronger than anybody's, he is trying everything he can to somehow help the inhabitants of the island which are going through a recession. He saddles himself with a debt to bring a cheap band onto the island and tries to market the underwater sightseeing ship on the island without regards for the Marine Act.
Mr. Harry, who suffers from a "peanut sized" penis complex, comes to Japan to undergo a genital transplant operation, the first of its kind in the world. The operation is a success but Harry soon is involved into a shady plot related to his organ donor.
Telle une fugueuse, Tsuyu déménage à Osaka pour travailler comme hôtesse de bar. Elle rencontre la propriétaire d'une école de mannequins, Yoko, et pense sérieusement à devenir modèle. Yoko lui dit qu'elle peut emménager chez elle pour prendre des cours, tout en gagnant sa vie en même temps.