Harakiri

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his r…

În prima parte a filmului Kobayashi arată drama tânărului Kaji (Tatsuza Nakadai), un tânăr ambițios care lucrează ca supervizor într-o închisoare din Manchuria și lupta sa cu societatea japoneză, aflată la acele vremuri sub influența nefast…

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

Când infractorii vor să răpească copilul unui gestionar bogat, dar îl confundă cu fiul șoferului, managerul plătește oricum. Drept urmare, își pierde bunurile și are probleme serioase, în timp ce răpitorul nu a fost încă prins.

În timpul celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial, un bărbat japonez lucrează ca supervizor într-o închisoare din Manchuria. Bărbatul spera să nu fie nevoit să-și facă datoria ca soldat, dar și să ajute prizonierii. O încercare de evadare a prizo…

Șoferul este specializat în conducerea mașinilor de fugă pentru jafuri. Talentul său excepțional l-a împiedicat încă să fie prins. După o altă fugă reușită de poliție, un detectiv sigur pe sine își face ca scop principal să prindă Șoferul. …

Un entomolog aflat în vacanță suferă traume fizice și psihologice extreme după ce este luat prizonier de locuitorii unui sat sărac de la malul mării și forțat să locuiască cu o femeie a cărei sarcină în viață este să scoată nisipul pentru e…

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expens…

Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she …

Odd couple Ivo Salvini, recently released from a mental asylum, and former prefect Gonnella wander through the countryside and discover a dystopia made of television commercials, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan rituals.

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.

A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control.

A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he's there, or why he's bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally 'zones out' of …

Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and phrenological examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and b…

Marco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy – though he is ill-prepared for her secrets as they quickly muddy the waters.

Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law’s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back to his poverty-stricken childhood home, far out in the country, his career plans fall apar…

Musashi învață să-și stăpânească impulsurile, să-și rețină puterea pentru a lăsa înțelepciunea interioară să crească. Întărit de învățăturile călugărului Takuan Soho, el își maturizează în sine conștiința de a nu fi exclusiv un bărbat bruta…

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him, as the women in his life vie for lovers. And, occasionally, his art gets him into tro…

A friendship is formed between an ex-gangster, and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.

Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, …