1966 film by Kihachi Okamoto

1964 Japanese film by Masaki Kobayashi

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.

1964 Japanese film by Kaneto Shindō

白土三平の同名長編漫画を大島渚が映画化。原画をそのまま撮影しアフレコするという、実験的な手法は賛否両論を呼んだ。声のキャストには大島組の常連である山本圭、小山明子、佐藤慶らが名を連ねた。室町時代、伏影城の城主は家老の坂上主膳に謀られ非業の死を遂げる。城主の息子である結城重太郎は辛うじて逃げ延び、父の仇を討つ機会を伺っていた。数年後、重太郎は城下に現れるが、主膳の妹で忍者の螢火に重症を負わされてしまう。そんな彼を救ったのは、伏影城に恨みを抱く忍者の影丸だった。

14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met. Their guide, a beer-guzzling ex-soldier, takes them to the locale’s tourist attractions, quickly delving into the underlying scars of the island’s wartime history.

1968 film by Nagisa Ōshima

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.

In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman