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- DirectorMasato HaradaStarsTakuzô KawataniNaohiko ShigetaHiromitsu SuzukiShuma is a 19-year-old movie buff. He meets a middle-aged eccentric named Dan san in a Shinjuku movie theater. Shuma's girlfriend interferes with this friendship.
- DirectorCarl ForemanStarsVince EdwardsAlbert FinneyGeorge HamiltonIntelligent, sprawling saga that follows a squad of American soldiers through Europe during World War II.
- DirectorYoshitarô NomuraStarsShima IwashitaGô KatôMayumi OgawaHamajima is a quiet, hard-working man, whose life changes drastically when he reunites with a lovely childhood friend and her strange little boy.
- DirectorYoshitarô NomuraStarsShima IwashitaKen OgataHiroki IwaseAfter a married man stops providing for his mistress, she abandons their three young children with him and his wrathful wife.
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsTamasaburô BandôGô KatôTsutomu YamazakiOutside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Their story is of revenge, tragedy, and the power of real love. A classical tale which translates wonderfully to film.
- DirectorHan Hsiang LiStarsBetty Loh TiLei ZhaoRhoqing TangA young scholar spends the night in a creepy temple that is said to be haunted. He doesn't believe in the rumors, but after running into a Taoist swordsman, he meets a beautiful lady ghost.
- DirectorYôji YamadaStarsKen TakakuraChieko BaishôHidetaka YoshiokaA mysterious stranger appears at door of a farmhouse on a stormy night and asks for shelter.
- DirectorYoshitarô NomuraStarsShin SaburiNobuko OtowaMayumi OgawaA young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household, and gets entangled in a sinister plot of murder.
- DirectorTakashi TsuboshimaStarsKeiko AramakiHiroshi AyukawaJun FujimakiDeep in the mountains of feudal Japan, a group of children endure cruel and unorthodox training in order to become the Shogunate's most secret and deadly weapons - the Demon Spies! Their true identities are hidden - even from each other. Behind their demon masks, they are educated in the deadly arts of infiltration, espionage, assassination - and seduction! If they survive to become strong enough to kill their teachers, they will become - the Demon Spies! Sent on a suicide mission to uncover a deadly conspiracy, five inexperienced Demon Spies must infiltrate a powerful fief, discover the location of its secret arsenal, and destroy it. But Lord Shogen, the Demon Hunter, plans to brutally interrogate, ingeniously torture, and cruelly execute - the Demon Spies!
- DirectorToshio MasudaStarsTatsuya NakadaiTeruhiko AoiToshirô MifuneThe lives and battles of soldiers leading up to the 1904 siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
- DirectorChih-Hung KueiStarsJames Yi LuiJenny LiangJu-Hua PeiA compulsive gambler with bad luck owes money to a violent gangster boss. A mysterious old man offers him a proposal to marry the ghost of his dead daughter in exchange for cash and an expensive apartment.
- DirectorChung SunStarsJason Piao PaiLieh LoFeng KuAn unfaithful wife frames had her husband framed for murder, and eventually poisons him. However, he returns from beyond the grave to take his revenge against those who wronged him.
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsTeruo YoshidaYukie KagawaTeruko YumiAfter escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appeared to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsTakeshi KagaMasato FuruoyaJun HamamuraAbout and ex-hippies memories of the death of John Lennon and the strange encounter with the murder mystery of a woman turning schizophrenic of grief.
- DirectorYoshitarô NomuraStarsAsami KobayashiKaoru KobayashiTsunehiko WataseA mysterious story involving the disappearance of Tatsuo's three brothers. Tatsuo, thinks that he too may disappear and has a nervous breakdown. His fiance visits a neurologist, who suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since humans have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream.
- DirectorNoboru NakamuraStarsTetsurô TanbaShima IwashitaTakamaru SasakiTakamura, poet and sculptor, is married to Chieko, who also has artistic desires. However, she is becoming increasingly aware that she can not match her husband's work.
- DirectorYasuo FuruhataStarsKen TakakuraChieko BaishôAyumi IshidaConstantly put to the test and faced with tragedy wherever he turns, can a man finally find solace and a modicum of love or rest with what is left of his hometown, his family, love or himself?
- DirectorKei KumaiStarsTatsuya NakadaiIchirô NakataniYôko AsajiIn 1949, Mr. Shimoyama, governor of Japan National Railroads, was found dead, run by train, after a mysterious disappearance. Officially it was considered suicide, but many suspected he was killed for some political conspiracy.
- DirectorYôji YamadaStarsChieko BaishôHisashi IgawaChishû RyûA poor family of miners from Kyushu uproot themselves and make the long journey to what they hope is a better life in Hokkaido. Their journey is beset with hardship and tragedy.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsKen OgataToshiyuki NishidaYûko TanakaThe famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsMasao KusakariTsunehiko WataseIsao NatsuyagiAfter a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.
- DirectorYoshitarô NomuraStarsTakao KataokaKeiko MatsuzakaJunko MiyashitaA selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.
- DirectorPéter GothárStarsAnikó IvánIstván ZnamenákPéter GálfyA teenager boy has to grow up in the shifting political and moral landscape of post-1956 Hungary.
- DirectorShinji ImaokaStarsSawa MasakiYoshirô UmezawaAi Narita
- DirectorYoshitarô NomuraStarsTetsurô TanbaGô KatôKensaku MoritaDetectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.
- DirectorTak-Cheung TangStarsKuang-Hung ChiPing-Ying HouKara WaiThe lute-demon Chin Mo has reappeared in the world to wreak havoc. Hsiao Feng-ling is ordered to find a special bow and arrow that can counter the demon.
- DirectorYuen ChorStarsOn-On YuKuan-Chen HuKuo-Chu ChangAi Nu is forced to work in Madam Chun's Merryland brothel. She is unwilling at first, but soon learns what to do to survive.
- DirectorJeong Ji-yeongStarsAhn Sung-kiLee Kyoung-youngShim Hye-jinSouth Korea, 1979. Han Kiju is an alcoholic novelist who has never recovered from his year long tour as a volunteer soldier in Vietnam. When he's asked to write a book about the Korean soldiers who fought in Vietnam he's battered by flashbacks that remind him of the brutality and lies that destroyed his innocence. The serialized novel brings him back in contact with a former soldier who served under him, PFC Pyon Chinsu, the one-time company clown driven mad by the violence of the war and who now looks to Han for some sort of emotional rescue.
- DirectorShûe MatsubayashiStarsSusumu FujitaHiroshi HasegawaAkihiko HirataA lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.
- DirectorOzualdo Ribeiro CandeiasStarsMário BenvenuttiValeria VidalBentinhoAbout people who live by the margins or Rio Tietê, in São Paulo, Brazil.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsMiyuki KuwanoFumio WatanabeMasahiko TsugawaLong takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
- DirectorSeiji MaruyamaStarsHiroshi FujiokaTarô ShigakiNaoko ÔtaniEpic dramatization of the WWII memoirs of Saburô Sakai, the famous ace pilot of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
- DirectorSatsuo YamamotoStarsShinobu ÔtakeMieko HaradaChikako YuriThe story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900's in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.
- DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsLouis DucreuxMichel AumontSabine AzémaAn elderly painter whose son visits with his family on the weekends, is also surprised by a visit from his still-single daughter.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsShin SaburiMayumi OgawaKeiko KishiA detailed look at a Tokyo business tycoon (played by Shin Saburi) given a diagnosis of terminal cancer who must now re-assess his life and values.
- DirectorNikolay GubenkoStarsJuozas BudraitisGeorgiy BurkovAleksandr KalyaginA story about a group of Russian boys who have lost their fathers in the World War II.
- DirectorShigemichi SugitaStarsYuki SaitôNaoto OgataHidetaka YoshiokaOracion is a racehorse purchased by a businessman in financial trouble. He believes the horse will win the upcoming Japan Derby and solve his monetary woes.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsShintarô KatsuTakahiro TamuraMikio NaritaA young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.
- DirectorKiyohiko UshiharaStarsTokusaburô ArashiShinpachirô AsakaYaeko AsanoIn this pre-war classic, a jealous stage actress named Mitsue murders a cat belonging to a young woman who is in love with the same man as Mitsue. The spirit of the cat returns as a vengeful ghost.
- DirectorHaruhiko MimuraStarsHiroyuki SanadaYûko NatoriRentarô MikuniA valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.
- DirectorRoland af HällströmStarsMirja ManeToivo MäkeläHillevi LagerstamArchaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears and drives the men of the village crazy. Everybody is certain that this really is the witch killed in days of yore. At the end the wild happenings during those few days appeared to be a dream of the professor leading the excavations.
- DirectorSadao NakajimaStarsMariko OkadaYûko NatoriMorio KazamaTsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school.
- DirectorYasuo FuruhataStarsKen OgataNorihito AraiToshihiro AsariA small band of heroes goes on a journey to protect a five year old who is next in line to become the Shogun of Japan. The boy's father, the Mad Shogun, tries to remove his son from the line of succession by any means possible.
- DirectorChih-Hung KueiStarsWu Chi LiuWei-Tu LinLin TungA poor woman is mugged, losses her fiancee and gets taken advantage of before turned into a sex slave. Her spirit delivers whats coming to them, all the way back to the original muggers.
- DirectorChih-Hung KueiStarsPhillip KoShao-Yen LinKar-Man WaiWhile in Thailand to avenge his brother who was crippled in a fight with a corrupt Thai boxer, a man gets caught up in a web of fate, Buddhism and black magic.
- DirectorHiroshi InagakiStarsToshirô MifuneYoshiko KugaKyôko KagawaIn the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them.
- DirectorYoshiyuki KurodaKimiyoshi YasudaStarsKôjirô HongôPepe HozumiMasami FurukidoThe murder of an old man on sacred grounds provokes the intervention of vengeful yôkai (Japanese spirits.)
- DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsTsutomu YamazakiMayumi OgawaYoshio HaradaA surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.
- DirectorSatsuo YamamotoStarsTatsuya NakadaiAyako WakaoGô KatôRecounts the events that the Mito Tengu Group undertook when they attempted to overthrow the Shogunate during the Bakumatsu Period.
- DirectorChih-Hung KueiStarsSzu-Chia ChenWei SzuWei-Tu LinGhost Eyes concerns a female hair stylist (Chen Szu-chia) who is seduced by the vampiric ghost of a former optometrist (Szu Wei). Using supernatural contact lenses to control her mind, he gradually drains her life essence as she is forced to find new victims until tries to make a stand and rid herself of this terror once and for all.
- DirectorYasuki ChibaStarsYûzô KayamaYuriko HoshiSô Yamamura
- DirectorTai KatôStarsBunta SugawaraMitsuko BaishôTomisaburô WakayamaThe story of a drunken fighter (Sugawara) and an ailing, blind singer (Baisho) amid the power struggle between the Shogunate government and the Emperor in mid-19th century Japan.