Daisuke Katō

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.

Three parties and a witness have four versions of a rape/murder in ninth-century Japan.

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society.

The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.

A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.

A tragic social drama set in post war Japan about a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo.

The legendary Forty-seven ronin plot to avenge the death of their lord, Asano Naganori, by killing Kira Yoshinaka, a shogunate official responsible for Asano being forced to commit seppuku.

The lives of two slum neighbors, one of a happy-go-lucky gambler and the other of a poor ronin, converge when the two get involved with the affairs of a powerful samurai official and his gangsters.

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

A samurai travels to Edo with his two servants. On their way, they meet many people and encounter great injustice.

This wry chamber piece from director Mikio Naruse focuses on a couple whose pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

In this second part to The Yotsuda Phantom, Iemon's apparent success is minimized by his own feelings of guilt, the quickly mounting evidence, and Naosuke's constant hounding.

A young officer must choose between love and duty.

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

A dark satire of a contemporary Japan still exhausted from the aftermath of war, hunger, poverty and unemployment. And just as its people are recovering, there is a threat during these Cold War years of renewed militarism and rear...