Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei.

擅长反映社会问题的导演小林正树，在此片中刻划并讽刺了富人的贪婪及生活的糜烂。剧情主要为一机器公司的老总在得知自己只有三个月的生命后，决定开始给后代分发遗产，但他的儿子却失踪了。在寻找的过程中，复杂的人际关系和奸情逐渐显露出来......

Kyoko, the daughter of a successful novelist, marries an aspiring writer. However, her husband’s difficulties with his writing and his resentment over her father cause deep strains in the marriage.

The Futurians, time-travelers from the 23rd century, arrive in Japan to warn them of the nation's destruction under Godzilla. They offer to help erase Godzilla from history by preventing his creation. With Godzilla seemingly gone, a new monster emerges as the Futurians' true intentions are revealed.

靖國神社太鼓之音穿越花街，在妓院的和室間迴盪。戰後孤兒小圓修練聲色藝，殷勤接待各式各樣的恩客：儒雅建築師、耿直壽司師傅，少不了也有猥瑣老頭；安身立命，當上建築師妾侍亦甘之如飴。男人在身邊離離去去，她的身與心彷彿也逐漸得到解放，發現不曾認識的自己。首個鏡頭已先聲奪人，川島雄三以切割構圖、顛覆鏡頭及黑色幽默，為日本戰後的頹敗社會顯影，亦為女性雕琢出自主輪廓。若尾文子綻放艷麗無垢的光芒，三十五襲華衣美服目不暇給，細膩演繹「那個她」到「這個我」的微妙蛻變；最後獨自佇望登山索道，竟散發點點安東尼奧尼鏡頭下蒙妮卡維蒂的味道。 （香港夏日電影節）
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In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love with her and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets. The ministers misuse their power so much that there is a popular revolt against the Yangs, fueled by An Lushan.

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

1970 American-Japanese war film

1967 film by Kihachi Okamoto

1957 film by Yasujirō Ozu

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.