Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Mystery • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Shôhei Imamura
Writer
Shôhei Imamura, Shichirô Fukazawa
Cast
Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari
Plot
In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An elderly woman is reaching close to her cut-off age during her last days with her family.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, War • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Shôhei Imamura
Writer
Masuji Ibuse, Shôhei Imamura, Toshirô Ishidô
Cast
Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara
Plot
Though it has been five years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Yasuko, her uncle and aunt are forced to deal with the ordeals of the disaster, along with many others like them.
Life story of a woman born in poverty trying to succeed. Through her many schemes, she faces her ups and downs in a cyclical nature, fueled mostly by self-interest.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Shôhei Imamura
Writer
Akiyuki Nosaka, Shôhei Imamura, Koji Numata
Cast
Shôichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Keiko Sagawa
Plot
While avoiding the mob and local authorities, a world-weary pornographer finds being a family man the most difficult as he wrestles with his own desires and afflictions.
An engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs.
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.
