18x2 Beyond Youthful Days

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Runtime

1h 54m

Director

Kinji Fukasaku

Cast

Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Takeshi Kitano

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.

Runtime

2h 15m

Director

Clint Eastwood

Cast

Ryan Phillippe, Adam Beach, Jesse Bradford

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Kaneto Shindō

Cast

Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa'...

Runtime

1h 48m

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the u...

Runtime

3h 5m

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Toshirō Mifune, Yūzō Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki