Name: The Ballad of Narayama
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Released: 1958
Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Danko Ichikawa, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki

Seiji Miyaguchi

Kinuyo Tanaka

Danko Ichikawa

Teiji Takahashi

Yûko Mochizuki

A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.

The Ballad of Narayama

楢山節考, Narayama bushikō

Daisuke Katō

Toshiro Mifune

Takashi Shimura

Isao Kimura

Chiaki Minoru

Yukiko Shimazaki

Kamatari Fujiwara

Keiko Tsushima

A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.

L’âge d’or des studios japonais

Seven Samurai

七人の侍

Japanese

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Chishū Ryū

Kuniko Miyake

Haruko Sugimura

Setsuko Hara

Kokuten Kodo

Chieko Higashiyama

Chikage Awashima

Ichirō Sugai

Kuniko Ikawa

Hiroshi Nihonyanagi	

Toyo Takahashi

A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.

Early Summer

麦秋

Keiji Sada

Michiyo Aratama

Tatsuya Nakadai

Kôji Mitsui

Sō Yamamura

Eitaro Ozawa

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

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

Masayuki Mori

Ichisaburo Sawamura

Sakae Ozawa

Kikue Mori

Mitsuko Mito

Machiko Kyō

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

Tales of the Pale and Silvery Moon after the Rain

雨月物語

Kyōko Kagawa

Chieko Naniwa

Eitarô Shindô

Kimiko Tachibana

Yoshiaki Hanayagi

Akitake Kôno

Masao Shimizu

Ken Mitsuda

Kazukimi Okuni

Yôko Kosono

Teruko Ômi

Masahiko Kato

Keiko Enami

Bontarô Akemi

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

Sansho the Bailiff

山椒大夫

Shuji Sano

Chieko Murata

Eiko Takamatsu

Chyoko Fumitani

Toshinosuke Nagao	

Fumiko Okamura

Takeshi Sakamoto

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son&#x27;s hospital bills.

A Hen in the Wind

Kaze no naka no mendori

Keiju Kobayashi

Hideko Takamine

Noboru Nakaya

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

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Yûzô Kayama

Yôko Naitô

In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

Red Beard

赤ひげ

Sadako Sawamura

Tsukie Matsuura

Follows a woman&#x27;s fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of the society.

The Life of Oharu

Saikaku ichidai onna

Sanae Takasugi

Mitsuo Nagata

Tomie Tsunoda

A mistress of a drug dealer in post-war Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is having an affair with her sister.

Women of the Night

Yoru no onna tachi

Komaki Kurihara

Yôko Takahashi

Takiko Mizunoe

Eiko Mizuhara

A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan 8.

Nouveaux cinémas

Brothel No. 8

Sandakan hachibanshōkan bōkyō

Eiji Okada

Mieko Harada

Natsuko Kahara

Meiko Kaji

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world, when her grandmother dies.

Lullaby of the Earth

Daichi no komoriuta

A woman&#x27;s struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government. Eiko and Omoi are jailed because of a fire at a factory instigated by Chiyo, a servant girl from Eiko&#x27;s home in Okayama, who was sold to slavery. A few years later the 1889 constitution is proclaimed, Eiko, Omoi, and Chiyo are pardoned, and the Liberal Party is reinaugurated. However Omoi does not campaign for women&#x27;s rights.

Flame of My Love

わが恋は燃えぬ

Mariko Okada

Isuzu Yamada

Sumiko Kurishima

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn&#x27;t see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

Flowing

流れる

Nobuko Otowa

Kiyoko Hirai

Yūji Hori

Reiko Kongō

Eijirō Yanagi

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective wife, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband&#x27;s family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.

Miss Oyu

お遊さま

french

Chieko Nakakita

Akihiko Katayama

After the loss of a beloved family member, a daughter returns from far away to her mother&#x27;s home in Japan; mother and daughter attempt to work past the guilt and distance in order to reconnect, each in their own ways.

Mother

おかあさん

Ryō Ikebe

Keiko Kishi

A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.

Early Spring

早春

Hideki Gôko

Itsuo Watanabe

Takeo Terashita

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.

Twenty-Four Eyes

二十四の瞳

Kuniko Igawa

A girl who had left her home village for life in Tokyo returns to her home years later, and evokes a scandal when the locals discover that she&#39;s a stripper.

Carmen Comes Home

Karumen kokyo ni kaeru

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Jean-Pierre Léaud

Patrick Auffay

Claire Maurier

Albert Rémy

Jean-Claude Brialy

Jeanne Moreau

Georges Flamant

Yvonne Claudie

Guy Decomble

Robert Beauvais

Pierre Repp

Claude Mansard

Jacques Monod

Luc Andrieux

Jacques Demy

Bruno Podalydès

François Truffaut in 4 Minuten

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The story of Antoine Doinel &ndash; aged twelve and a half &ndash; begins on the day he is given a severe punishment at school to do at home that evening. It happens that he is unable to do it. So, the next day, not daring to go back to school, Antoine, together with his best friend, Ren&eacute;, discovers the joys of playing truant. That afternoon, he comes across his mother on the arm of a stranger. He is overwhelmed by the sight of this and he runs away. He ends up in a police station, then in a Delinquents Observation Center. Will Antoine one day come to terms with life?

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