Haruo Tanaka

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Dir. Akira Kurosawa · With Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko

When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves truly falling for one another.

Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi · With Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyōko Kagawa, Eitarō Shindō

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi · With Machiko Kyō, Ayako Wakao, Michiyo Kogure

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.

Dir. Hiroshi Inagaki · With Toshirō Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa

A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

Dir. Yasujirō Ozu · With Ganjirō Nakamura II, Machiko Kyō, Ayako Wakao