Name: Hitokiri
Director: Hideo Gosha
Released: 1969
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mitsuko Baisho, Shintarō Katsu, Yukio Mishima, Yujiro Ishihara

Tatsuya Nakadai

Mitsuko Baisho

Shintarō Katsu

Yukio Mishima

Yujiro Ishihara

Takumi Shinjo

Noboru Nakaya

A destitute ronin allies himself with an established clan, but its ruthless leader tries to turn him into a mindless killer.

Nouveaux cinémas

Hitokiri

人斬り

Toshiro Mifune

Kyōko Kagawa

Tatsuya Mihashi

Takashi Shimura

Yutaka Sada

Susumu Fujita

Kenjirô Ishiyama

Isao Kimura

Kôji Mitsui

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Hiroshi Unayama

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Takeshi Katô

An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur&#x27;s son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

L’âge d’or des studios japonais

High and Low

天国と地獄

french

Japanese

VOST - HD

Akira Terao

Jinpachi Nezu

Daisuke Ryu

Mieko Harada

Yoshiko Miyazaki

Takeshi Nomura

Hisashi Igawa

Kenji Kodama

Toshiya Ito

Kazuo Kato

Norio Matsui

Masayuki Yui

Jun Tazaki

Hitoshi Ueki

Heihachiro Suzuki

Reiko Nanjo

Sawako Kochi

Tokie Kanda

Kumeko Otowa

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other... and him.

VOST - SD

Daisuke Katō

Ganjiro Nakamura

Hideko Takamine

Masayuki Mori

Reiko Dan

Eitaro Ozawa

Keiko Awaji 

A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

女が階段を上る時

Keiji Sada

Michiyo Aratama

Sō Yamamura

Seiji Miyaguchi

Chikage Awashima

Ineko Arima

Akira Ishihama

Shinji Nambara

Toru Abe

Masao Mishima

A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.

The Human Condition - Part 1: No Greater Love

人間の條件

Kenichi Hagiwara

Kota Yui

Hideji Otaki

Hideo Murata

Takayuki Shiho

Noboru Shimizu

Sen Yamamoto

Kai Ato

Yu Shimaka

Eiichi Kanakubo

A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord&#x27;s double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

Kagemusha

影武者

As a conscript in war-time Japan&#x27;s military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.

The Human Condition - Part 2: Road to Eternity  

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan&#x27;s military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.

The Human Condition - Part 3: A Soldier's Prayer

Ishirô Honda

Akira Kurosawa

Fumio Yanoguchi

Chris Marker

A documentary that shows the production of Ran and discusses the film techniques of Kurosawa himself.

A.K.

Français

VF - SD

Yûzô Kayama

Akihiko Hirata

Kunie Tanaka

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

Sanjuro

椿三十郎

Shima Iwashita

Tetsurô Tanba

When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord&#x27;s palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan&#x27;s integrity.

Hara-kiri

切腹

Yôko Tsukasa

Isuzu Yamada

Seizaburô Kawazu

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Yojimbo

用心棒

Aiko Nagayama

Katsutaka Ito

Tatsuya Tashiro

After being raped by an evil feudal lord and subsequently getting banished from her village, a peasant girl makes a pact with the Devil to gain magical powers and take her revenge.

Belladonna of Sadness

哀しみのベラドンナ

Misako Watanabe

Rentarō Mikuni

A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.

Kwaïdan

怪談

Osamu Takizawa

Mieko Takamine

Kōji Nanbara

A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.

Love Under the Crucifix

お吟さま

Ken Ogata

Mayumi Ogawa

Nijiko Kiyokawa

Chocho Miyako

Kazuo Kitamura

Frankie Sakai

Yoshi Katô

Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run.

The Vengeance Is Mine

復讐するは我にあり

Kôji Yakusho

Misa Shimizu

Fujio Tsuneta

Akira Emoto

Shō Aikawa

Ken Kobayashi

Sabu Kawahara

Etsuko Ichihara

Tomoro Taguchi

Sansho Shinsui

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.

The Eel

うなぎ, Unagi

Tonpei Hidari

Yoshio Harada

Shigeru Izumiya

Nenji Kobayashi

Toshie Kobayashi

Mitsuru Hirata

Barbara, a young stripper, goes back to her hometown, Nagoya, where her husband and her best friend are supposed to be waiting for her.&nbsp;

Nuclear Gypsies

生きてるうちが花なのよ死んだらそれまでよ党宣言

Mansaku Fuwa

Isao Natsuyagi

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

Akai Hashi no Shita no Nurui Mizu

Nobuo Kaneko

Gen Kimura

Ikuko Môri

Shôsaku Sugiyama

Hizuru Takachiho

When Zatoichi witnesses the murder of a young mother he promises to deliver the baby to the father. Along the way he gains the help of a reluctant criminal.

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

Zatôichi kesshô-tabi

Yôko Minamida

Sachiko Hidari

Furankî Sakai

Izumi Ashikawa

In the last days of the Shogunate, a resourceful grifter seeks to outwit competing prostitutes, rebellious samurai and other inhabitants of a brothel in order to survive the hardened times.

Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate

Bakumatsu taiyôden

Keiju Kobayashi

Kinuyo Tanaka

Mitsuko Kusabue

Akira Takarada

Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working in poverty while being abused by her boyfriend all the while hoping to break free from the cycle.

A Wanderer's Notebook

Hôrô-ki

Paul Brennan

Charles McDevitt

James Baker

Raymond Martos

Four relentless door-to-door salesmen deal with constant rejection, homesickness and inevitable burnout as they go across the country selling very expensive bibles to low-income Catholic families.

Cinéma vérité

Salesman

VF - HD

The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.

My Night at Maud's

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