在封建时代的末期。女人早年大部分时间都在监狱里度过，被她父亲的政治对手监禁。当她44岁被释放时，她家族的权力斗争继续困扰着她的生活和她所爱的男人..

A noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target of a plot by the evil Yagyu Clan to take away his position and replace him with a member of their own family. When his wife is murdered and evidence is produced that he was plotting against the Shogun the Code of Bushido calls for him and his son to commit sepuku. Instead he defies the Shogun's orders and takes up arms against his enemies, becoming an assassin for hire.

江户时代后期，池田屋事件后，江波三郎身怀为新撰组原局长叔叔芹泽鸭复仇的愿望、以奸细身份加入了新撰组，目睹低层武士因触犯幕府规则而遭残暴对待，从最初的震惊愤慨，到后来逐渐麻木，并以身不由己为麻醉自己的借口，逐步参与到这场血腥行动中，最终身份败露，仍逃不过杀戮。镜头风格多变，此片为加藤泰代表作之一。

A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owner of the brothel has hopes to make her a great new addition which will attract the richest of customers. But after several months of training, she tries to flee Yoshiwara when the time has come for her to take her first customer...

佐江衆一原作の『老熟家族』をもとに、吉田喜重が「BIG1物語・王貞治」以来8年ぶりにメガホンを執った骨太社会派人間ドラマ。東京の新興住宅地で寝たきりの老母・タツが死ぬが、他殺の形跡が発見される。タツの夫・亮作は自分が絞殺したと自首するが、彼は取調室で失禁するほどボケていた……。吉田喜重監督は、当時ちょっとしたブームになっていたボケ老人の問題を決してちゃかすことなく真摯な態度で見据え、8年間のブランクを感じさせぬ確かな演出をみせた。全編を通じて透明感あふれる水のイメージが描かれ、この暗く重い映画にとって、一種の清涼剤的な役割を果たしている。外光の射し込む日本家屋の空間を生かした、撮影の成果も特筆に値する。DVDは「吉田喜重全集［86-03］炎を映す水」に収録。

The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his former fellow soldier), old lady Osugi (still doggedly trying to defeat Musashi), and even the return of Priest Takuan (the man responsible for his journey towards enlightenment). But most of all, the boastful, long-haired and long-sworded Sasaki Kojiro.

If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom. We follow a group of young men that can't seem to get ahead, despite their willingness to try. Then one hits upon a plan - to work together to save for a dump truck and thus become independent contractors and be their own bosses at last. Ultimately life presents obstacles: jail for one, violence at the hands of the police for another, and a girlfriend and subsequent children for the third. An early Kinji Fukasaku gem that imports the freewheeling style of the French New Wave and the hip detachment of American noir.

福冈市内的中州高校3年级的学生田中从大楼的屋顶跳下自杀了后，第二天媒体报道使学校校长想挽回学校的荣誉，在全校教室里广播跟学生说田中很愚蠢做了一件没有意义的举动。田中的七班同班学生以无声表示抗议，担任数学老师的伊原当做自杀没有发生的状态继续教学，这种为人师表的态度导致城野安弘很不满意数学老师的表现，于是把数学老师打到，发生肉体上冲突后跑出了学校。闯入武器店后抢的一把来复式步枪返回学校将数学老师射杀。失去理智的安弘在校内武装起义了，学校成了这位学生暴动的场所，发生惨烈的厮杀，绑架几位女生的斗士在学校跟警察短兵相接，拉风的枪战就这样展开。

主人公・桃子は裏山の神社で幼馴染みの良介の大学合格祈願をしている途中、女性の悲鳴を耳にする。驚いて山を駆け降りた桃子が目にしたものは、担任教師の三田の姿。翌日、現場から女性の死体が発見され、桃子は三田に疑惑を抱く。しかし警察は、偶然現場に居合わせた良介に容疑をかける。密かに良介と交際していた生徒会長・麗子からの依頼で、桃子が虚偽の証言をしたことで良介は自由の身となるが、桃子は良心に苛まれる。そんな矢先、偶然から桃子は自分の出生の秘密（実子ではないこと）を知ってしまい、偽りばかりの世界に次第に絶望を抱き始める。

The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.

用13年时间完成的小川摄制组的代表作。用如此复杂的形式描写历史的电影，在世界电影史上也绝无仅有。这部电影通过牧野村世代传承的口头文学、舞蹈和虚构的的形式再现历史。在这部电影中，村民们和那些著名的演员们一起，扮演自己的先祖。电影制作者们试图从稻田的考古挖掘现场中，触摸牧野村远古的历史。这部作品之所以给人冷峻的印象，让我们对传统的村落生活以及精神性神话感到幻灭，是因为它成功地使用了科学的手段。用显微镜拍摄的稻子开花的镜头，唤起我们对生命的敬畏。而大学教授突然从灌木丛中走出，推测故事的起源的那一段，实际上是对牧野村千年历史的真实性进行确认。在这部由极为复杂的时空关系构筑的作品中镌刻的，是收获的季节的韵律，是太阳在山形的天空中划出的弧光。

At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level military adventurer, Iheiji sets up chains of brothels throughout Asia. As Japan's power in the region grows, so does Iheiji's prosperity and patriotism.

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

1968 film by Shōhei Imamura

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.