Masaki Kobayashi

The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an ...

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the team the Toyko Flowers.

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as ...

Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning “ghost story,” this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai ...

On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts ...

An unusual request for ritual suicide on a feudal lord’s property leads to the unwinding of a greater mystery that challenges the ...

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 ...