Taking Its Title From An Archaic Japanese Word Meaning “ghost Story,” This Anthology Adapts Four Folk Tales. A Penniless Samurai Marries For Money With Tragic Results. A Man Stranded In A Blizzard Is Saved By Yuki The Snow Maiden, But His Rescue Comes At A Cost. Blind Musician Hoichi Is Forced To Perform For An Audience Of Ghosts. An ... click for more
Eiko Yoshida Gô Yoshida Masaki Kobayashi Fumie Kitahara Kappei Matsumoto Kenjirō Ishiyama Kenzō Tanaka Michiyo Aratama Misako Watanabe Otome Tsukimiya Ranko Akagi Rentaro Mikuni Yoshiko Ieda

Down-on-his-luck Veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō Enters The Courtyard Of The Prosperous House Of Iyi. Unemployed, And With No Family, He Hopes To Find A Place To Commit Seppuku—and A Worthy Second To Deliver The Coup De Grâce In His Suicide Ritual. The Senior Counselor For The Iyi Clan Questions The Ronin’s Resolve And Integrity, Suspecting Hanshi... click for more
Kôji Niwa Masaki Kobayashi Akira Ishihama Hisashi Igawa Ichirō Nakatani Kei Satō Masao Mishima Shima Iwashita Tatsuya Nakadai Tetsurō Tamba Tōru Takeuchi Yoshio Inaba

After Handing In A Report On The Treatment Of Chinese Colonial Labor, Kaji Is Offered The Post Of Labor Chief At A Large Mining Operation In Manchuria, Which Also Grants Him Exemption From Military Service. He Accepts, And Moves To Manchuria With His Newly-wed Wife Michiko, But When He Tries To Put His Ideas Of More Humane Treatment Into Practice... click for more
Kôichi Inagaki Masaki Kobayashi Yûgorô Imai Akira Ishihama Chikage Awashima Ineko Arima Kôji Nanbara Masao Mishima Michiyo Aratama Seiji Miyaguchi Sō Yamamura Tatsuya Nakadai Tōru Abe

After The Japanese Defeat To The Russians, Kaji Leads The Last Remaining Men Through Manchuria. Intent On Returning To His Dear Wife And His Old Life, Kaji Faces Great Odds In A Variety Of Different Harrowing Circumstances As He And His Fellow Men Sneak Behind Enemy Lines.
The Human Condition III: A Soldier`s Prayer 1961 Genres: Drama, Histo... click for more
Kôichi Inagaki Masaki Kobayashi Chishū Ryū Keijirō Morozumi Koji Kiyomura Kyōko Kishida Michiyo Aratama Reiko Hitomi Taketoshi Naitō Tamao Nakamura Tatsuya Nakadai Yūsuke Kawazu