Top Cast
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Yoshio Harada
Yoshi Kazamatsuri
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Michiyo Yasuda
Takako Kazamatsuri
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Takako Matsu
Mie Oi
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Koichi Sato
Ippei Koshida
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Eita Nagayama
Kanji Shibayama
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Renji Ishibashi
Kensan Shigetake
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Ichirō Ogura
Mitsuru Shibayama
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Toranosuke Kato
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Ittoku Kishibe
Overview
The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's life is thrown into disarray days before the performance when his estranged wife and former best friend arrive back in town...
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The Ballad of Narayama
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
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To the Ends of the Earth
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
The Young One
Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life.
Harmonium
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Penance
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.
Tokyo Family
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
Hardball
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.