山本亘

After the war, many filmmakers were expelled from the Japanese film industry due to the Toho Dispute and the Red Purge. Amid such circumstances, there were people who set up their own independent production companies and embarked on film production without relying on corporations. This documentary film focuses on the passionate "spirit of film" of directors such as Satsuo Yamamoto and Tadashi Imai, who, despite many hardships, produced a succession of masterpieces overflowing with humanism and rebellious spirit.

During Tenpo period, Bakuhu announced a law regulating expenditures in order to improve the financial situation. However, Doshin of a government office Itami Hanzo, called Kamisori Hanzo, challenged Bakuhu's oppressive way. Because of this, his father Magobei was told to kill himself by the Bakuhu and Hanzo himself was demoted. Five years later, Hanzo came back to the government office and implement a law regulating expenditures. He stands up for revenge Torii Kainokami who desires power as he likes.

En 1573, le Japon est le théâtre de guerres incessantes entre clans rivaux. Le plus puissant de ces clans est commandé par Shingen Takeda. Au cours du siège du château de Noda, Takeda est blessé à mort par un tireur embusqué. Pour éviter que son clan perde de sa cohésion dans des luttes intestines, Shingen demande que sa mort reste cachée pendant trois ans. Un ancien voleur, épargné pour sa ressemblance avec le seigneur de la guerre, fait alors office de doublure avec la complicité des généraux, afin de duper leurs nombreux ennemis à l'affût.

The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely.

The clerk of a trading company happens to have a large sum of money from his company in his possession. His girlfriend pressures him into fleeing with the money...

L'histoire de l'industrie de la soie et des jeunes filles qui travaillaient comme fileuses de soie au début des années 1900 au Japon. Les filatures de soie étaient situées à Okaya, juste au-delà du col de Nomugi. Les femmes et les filles travaillaient sans repos dans une atmosphère chaude et humide et enduraient ces conditions et le harcèlement sexuel pour gagner de l'argent pour leurs familles pauvres. De l'autre côté de l'océan, c'est la grande dépression en Amérique.

Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited to his onscreen counterpart, Keiko, who recently announced her retirement from acting in order to get married. Feeling frustrated and helpless, Ken turns to alcohol as he begins to provoke fights, attempts to lure a girl into bed, and argues with his wife, who came to visit him at the studio. All she says is thank you and leaves Ken puzzled. Ken Mihara, once a budding young star, takes a job as an extra. Although he's past his prime, he still manages to infuse a young filmmaker with the motivation to pursue her dreams as a director.

An epic of love and death that depicts how soldiers and ordinary people lived and fought during the Russo-Japanese War, when Japan's very existence was at stake in the face of the great power of Russia.

Le détective Ukyo Sugishita enquête sur les affaires criminelles selon ses propres méthodes. Ukyo sera accompagnés de différents partenaires au fil des saisons.

During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo, and all across the Kansai region, stealing large sums of money with skillful techniques. They only target the very wealthy and never kill or injure people. They appear with the clouds and disappear like the mist. On the night that the beautiful Ochiyo is to become the bride of a dry goods dealer, a large amount of money hidden inside the shop is stolen. The gang disappears without injuring anyone. It was a two-year plan to marry Ochiyo off so that she could bring them in. The leader of this gang is Kumokiri Nizaemon, the greatest bandit of all time. He keeps a rein on his highly-skilled and notorious followers Nanabake no Ochiyo, Kinezumi no Kichigoro, Subashiri no Kumagoro, Ingakozo Rokunosuke and others.

Two police investigate the death of a corpse found in a train yard.