Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'.

In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying out their vengeance. Sanada Hiroyuki stars as Sukeroku the Helper, a ‘cool and rambling yakuza’ that has made a business out of helping victims carry out their revenge. When he returns to his hometown to pay a visit to his mother’s grave he meets a deadly ronin who carries a secret which eventually leads him into a vendetta of his own.

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

昭和十五年。考古学者本郷直樹は次男の真二が自分と同じく学問の道を志すことを喜んでいた。兄の英一は父の意に反して海軍少尉になっていた。一方、船大工の小田切武市は一人息子の正人が海軍兵学校に合格したので有頂点になっていた。十八年間海軍に勤めても下士官止りの武市は正人の将来は約束されたと信じて疑わなかった。一年が過ぎた。世界情勢は日毎に緊迫の色を強め、戦争の予感は現実のものになろうとしていた。昭和十六年十二月八日、早期和平を強調する山本五十六のもとで、連合艦隊は、ハワイ真珠湾に奇襲をかけた。次々と炎上する米海軍の戦艦群を、英一は興奮の面持ちで見つめていた。その頃、五年の歳月と建艦技術の粋を集めた空前総後の巨艦、大和が完成した。山本はアメリカに時間を与えず、早期和平に持ち込もうと、ミッドウェイ作戦に賭けた。しかし、作戦は失敗に終り、戦局は消耗戦へと展開していった。数々の戦闘を体験している英一は、死を覚悟し、婚約者の陽子と式を挙げたが、指一本触れずに戦場へもどった。やがて大学生の真二も召集され兵学校を卒業した正人も武市の意に反して零戦に乗る決意をしていた。日本軍は劣勢に回り、起死回生のレイテ作戦に出た。英一は戦場で真二と出会った。陽子への仕打ちをなじる真二に「陽子を頼む」と遺書を残して英一は大空に散った。英一の残したライフ・ジャケットのために沈む船から脱出した真二は、生きる喜びをあらためて知り、陽子と生きようと陸上勤務を志願するが、大和への転属を命ぜられる。死を目前にして真二は陽子を抱けなかった兄の気持を初めて理解した。陽子は逆だった。愛する人に抱かれたい。陽子は真二に激しく体をぶつけるのだった。同じ頃、正人は特攻を志願していた。武市は息子の出世に固執し兵学校へ行かせた己の浅薄さを呪い戦争の恐しさを痛感した。戦況は挽回の余地もない所まで来ていた。そしてついに、最後の切札、大和の沖縄への水上特攻が計画されるに至った。大和は出撃した。真二も正人もその中にいた。そして、陽子、武市、多くの肉親を残して、大和艦上の戦士たちはその命を沈めていった。

1985 Japanese American science fiction action film directed by Koji Hashimoto

After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the story to light are suppressed by the Japanese government amid growing political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, who are both willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.

Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa, a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish nature. With the national championships fast approaching, the pair clash as Kokubu drives his students with increasingly rigorous training and Kagawa tests Kokubu's grip on the class.

When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house in the middle of nowhere, where sinister goings-on abound.

Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entangled in the dark web of an influential, elderly power broker, becoming his mistress and a pawn in his political schemes. As she descends further into a downward spiral of moral decay, Tamiko realizes that the freedom she sought is merely a new form of entrapment.

1963 film by Hiromichi Horikawa

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.