When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The ...

A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins, ...

The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, “The Flower Girl” (dir. Kozaburo Yoshimura), is a ...

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the ...

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers ...

A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials’ depriving the farmers of their water rights.

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist’s investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.