Eijirō Tōno

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

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

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.

The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.

In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective seeks advice from a seasoned colleague while trying to track down his stolen Colt pistol.

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

Musashi Miyamoto returns to Kyoto after years of absence. After a series of fights against the Yoshioka School, he challenges its master to a duel.

In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.

An aging Japanese industrialist becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family.

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.

A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.

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

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to prevent a massacre from taking place.

Zatoichi, while fighting off the usual group of gangsters, meets the apprentice of the swordsman who created his blade, who relays bad news about the sword.

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War II's Battle of Okinawa - a massive amphibious assault by U.S. troops that left more than 150,000 Japanese civilians dead.

A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a young, smart boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to other people's needs, she will end by taking part herself in one of the many disguises of Ginza.