Love Letter So-renka

It was a tumultuous time. In the early Meiji period, there was the first photographer in Japan who lived a heroic life. What fascinated him with photography was a photograph of a naked woman.

Runtime

1h 4m

Cast

Naomi Tani, John Basclin, Masayoshi Nogami

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Runtime

1h 28m

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Toshirō Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Takashi Shimura

The lives of an American expat and a half Japanese construction worker living in rural Japan are forever changed over the course of three days as they engage in an unexpected romance.

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

Michael Williams, Raito Nishizaka

Cast

Christopher McCombs, Christopher Nishizawa, Cynthia Cheston

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

Runtime

3h 27m

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba

When the bizarre mass suicide of 54 high school girls throwing themselves in front of a subway train appears to instigate a string of suicides around the country, Detective Kuroda strives to find the answer, which isn't as simple as he had hoped.

Runtime

1h 39m

Director

Sion Sono

Cast

Masatoshi Nagase, Ryo Ishibashi, Sayako Hagiwara