Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.

Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.

Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the Shikoku Godfather, and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, Matsue, form the backdrop of this epic tale of justice, obedience, and bloody vengeance.

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood.

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.

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.

When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works.

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.

When wealthy Kyohei hires singer "Black Rose" to perform in his exclusive club, he gets more than he bargains for when she attracts scores of homicidal past lovers. The film takes a bizarre twist when Kyohei's son falls victim to the femme fatale's unique charm.

This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion and doubt clouds Kousuke's mind.

UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing.