Podle skutečného příběhu z předválečného Japonska se mezi mužem a jednou z jeho služebných rozhoří vášnivý románek. Jejich touha přeroste v sexuální posedlost tak silnou, že se pro zintenzivnění svého vzplanutí vzdávají všeho, dokonce i samotného života.
Kurosawa tentokrát svůj filmový příběh zasadil do období poválečné ekonomické revoluce v Japonsku. Kingo Gondo, úspěšný manažer v obuvním průmyslu se na vrcholu své kariéry stane obětí vydírání. Když zjistí, že únosci místo jeho syna zajali jiného chlapce, ocitá se v nelehké situaci...Musí se rozhodnout, zda obětuje práci, která je pro něj smyslem života nebo dá všanc svoji čest a dobré jméno.
It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world's biggest and most formidable battleship, Yamato. One of the admirals, Yamamoto Isoroku, disagrees. He recruits the upstart and mathematics' expert Tadashi Kai who discovers there are discrepancies between the official cost estimates and the actual figures. They soon find out that they have stumbled upon a conspiracy.
Děj filmu nás přenese do druhé poloviny třicátých let dvacátého století. Sleduje osudy čtyř sester z kdysi zámožné a vážené obchodnické rodiny v japonské Ósace. Ústředním motivem je snaha zajistit vhodný sňatek pro jednu ze sester, Yukiko. Film je komorní adaptací stejnojmenného světoznámého románu Tanizakiho Džuničiró a na pozadí příběhu ukazuje obyčeje tradiční japonské rodiny.
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.
Díky otcově práci, která je spojena s věčným stěhováním, si Nišimi Kaoru nikdy nestihl najít kamarády. Momentálně se přestěhoval ke své tetě na Kjúšu, aby zde začal jako prvák na vyšší střední. Seznamuje se zde s Kawabučim Sentaróem, který je tak trochu recidivista. Ačkoliv Kaoru je premiant a má perfektní známky, dá to dohromady se Sentaróem, protože právě s ním se cítí být sám sebou. Mají totiž jednu věc společnou - lásku k hudbě.
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the defenders to build an airstrip for aircraft that never come. The truth soon becomes obvious: the high command decides that the island cannot be held and effectively abandons the Okinawan defenders. When the Americans land many troops are deployed in the wrong places. As the slaughter mounts, a suicidal attitude takes hold. Okinawa becomes a death trap, for civilian volunteers and non-combatants as well.
A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the younger son is a rebellious goof-off for whom a tutor must be hired. The tutor, played by the prototypical bad boy actor Matsuda Yusaku, proceeds to blow the entire family apart.
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
In 1974, Morikazu is 94 years old and his wife Hideko is 76 years old. They live at a house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The garden at their home is full of trees, plants and insects. Morikazu paints pictures of the creatures in his garden and also observes them. This has been his daily routine for more than 30 years. Morikazu and Hideko entertain visitors every day including a photographer and the couple living next door.
Postwar Japan as it is described by Etsuko, the manager of a bar catering to foreigners in Yokosuka. The way of life of a woman brimming with vitality, who skipped the countryside right after the war and, with her womanhood as a weapon, lived through atomic bombings, black markets, prostitution aimed at American soldiers and the Korean War. Inserting newsreels, Shohei Imamura depicts the history of twenty-five years in the Japanese postwar by way of the female body. (doclisboa)
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
A story of lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.
Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejuro must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in Enko area.
An ambitious businessman knocks up his mistress with fraternal twins. He keeps the boy but sends his bodyguard to dispose of the mother and the girl. Years later…
This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series
Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo's life seemed great at the time, but his life totally changed after his wife died in accident. Since that time, Yasuo, who never experienced parents' love himself, has to raise his son Akira alone.