Kurando is a retired samurai. Granted a last-second reprieve from the obligation to commit harakiri, he decides to settle down and marry one of the two kabuki actresses who helped him enjoy what he thought would be his final days.
Ryutaro Otomo
Takasada Tomita
Chikage Awashima
Sakon Murayama
Hiromi Hanazono
Umeme
Isao Yamagata
Mitsunari Ishida
Kensaku Hara
Kazunobu Tomita
Masao Oda
Kichibei
Eitarō Ozawa
Ieyasu Tokugawa
Yataro Kurokawa
Chiezo Kataoka
Toshinaga Maeda
Kurando is a retired samurai. Granted a last-second reprieve from the obligation to commit harakiri, he decides to settle down and marry one of the two kabuki actresses who helped him enjoy what he thought would be his final days.
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
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In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.
In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's young and flirtatious cousin arrives for a brief stay to escape an arranged marriage.
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
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In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.