Love Suicides (2007)

Actors: Veronica Taylor (actress), David Teague (editor), David Teague (director), David Teague (producer), Jean Brassard (actor), Jean Brassard (actor), Jean Brassard (actor), Scott Addison Clay (actor), Kevin Maher (actor), Monzaemon Chikamatsu (writer), Scott Chan (actor), Anna Curtis (actress), Okwui Okpokwasili (actress), Peter Judd (actor), Richard Marriott (composer),

Plot: 'Love Suicides' is a silent film in three acts recounting the tale of Kume and Osan, illicit lovers who are condemned by traditional society. Journeying from Kume's mountaintop monastery to a sacred temple ruins, the lovers encounter demon attacks, jealous suitors, murderous soldiers, and singing dreams as they are propelled towards their ultimate fate. Based on the classic Japanese bunraku play 'Love Suicides at the Women's Temple' by Chikamatsu Monzaemon.

Shinjû: Ten no Amijima (1969)

Actors: Shima Iwashita (actress), Kamatari Fujiwara (actor), Jun Hamamura (actor), Yoshi Katô (actor), Hôsei Komatsu (actor), Masahiro Shinoda (director), Tôru Takemitsu (composer), Tôru Takemitsu (writer), Masahiro Shinoda (writer), Shima Iwashita (actress), Masahiro Shinoda (producer), Tokie Hidari (actress), Yûsuke Takita (actor), Sumiko Hidaka (actress), Makoto Akatsuka (actor),

Plot: In 18th Century in Japan, the paper merchant Jihei (Kichiemon Nakamura) falls in love for the courtesan Koharu (Shima Iwashita), but he can not afford to redeem her from her master and owner of the brothel, since he spent all his money in the place with Koharu. Jihei's wife Osan tries to keep her husband with his two children and asks Koharu to leave him. The two lovers make a pact of double suicide to escape from the rigid rules of the Japanese society of 1720 and stay together after death.

Gan (1966)

Actors: Hisashi Igawa (actor), Eitarô Ozawa (actor), Mitsuko Mito (actress), Ayako Wakao (actress), Sei Ikeno (composer), Hisano Yamaoka (actress), Kazuo Ikehiro (director), Masashige Narusawa (writer), Gaku Yamamoto (actor), Reiko Fujiwara (actress), Michiko Sugata (actress), Ogai Mori (writer), Kazumasa Nakano (producer),

Hiya-meshi to Osan to Chan (1965)

Actors: Minoru Chiaki (actor), Kazuo Kitamura (actor), Norihei Miki (actor), Kinnosuke Nakamura (actor), Shôichi Ozawa (actor), Kei Satô (actor), Michiyo Aratama (actress), Yoshiko Mita (actress), Misako Watanabe (actress), Shigeru Okada (producer), Hiroshi Okawa (producer), Masaru Satô (composer), Michiyo Kogure (actress), Tomotaka Tasaka (director), Mitsuko Mori (actress),

Chikamatsu monogatari (1954)

Actors: Masaichi Nagata (producer), Yôko Minamida (actress), Haruo Tanaka (actor), Chieko Naniwa (actress), Tatsuya Ishiguro (actor), Kyôko Kagawa (actress), Hisao Toake (actor), Saburô Date (actor), Shinobu Araki (actor), Ichirô Sugai (actor), Eitarô Ozawa (actor), Eitarô Shindô (actor), Kazuo Hasegawa (actor), Yoshikata Yoda (writer), Matsutarô Kawaguchi (writer),

Plot: In 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is falsely accused of having an affair with the best worker, Mohei, the pair flee the city and declare their love for each other. Ishun orders his men to find them, and separate them to avoid public humiliation.

Shamisen yakuza (1938)

Actors: Ryôsuke Kagawa (actor), Matsutarô Kawaguchi (writer), Takashi Shimura (actor), Kunitarô Sawamura (actor), Midori Komatsu (actress), Sannosuke Fujikawa (actor), Shizuko Takizawa (actress), Ôka Onoe (actor), Hidemichi Ishikawa (actor), Satoko Chikamatsu (actress), Kikutaro Onoe (actor), Tominosuke Hayama (actor), Han Takahashi (composer), Taichiro Okura (actor), Shojiro Ichikawa (actor),

Kikos (1931)

Actors: Hrachia Nersisyan (actor), Avet Avetisyan (actor), Amasi Martirosyan (actor), Patvakan Barkhudaryan (director), Patvakan Barkhudaryan (writer), M. Garagash (actor), Hambartsum Khachanyan (actor), Kh. Abrahamyan (actor), Suren Kocharyan (actor), A. Ashimova (actress), A. Papyan (actress), V. Ilyin (actor), Vasili Ilyin (actor), M. Darbinyan (writer), K. Kogamov (actor),

Nakayama-shichiri (1930)

Actors: Shin Hasegawa (writer), Kenjirô Ishiyama (actor), Kodayu Ichikawa (actor), Kinshiro Matsumoto (actor), Namio Ochiai (director), Namio Ochiai (writer), Utako Haruno (actress), Utako Haruno (actress), Shinzo Takeda (actor), Koraigoro Matsumoto (actor), Tesshû Okuma (actor), Koichiro Aoyama (actor), Sonoko Fujima (actress),

Nakayama-shichiri (1930)

Actors: Kunitarô Sawamura (actor), Tsukie Matsuura (actress), Tsukie Matsuura (actress), Shin Hasegawa (writer), Shôroku Onoe (actor), Kyotaro Namiki (director), Kyotaro Namiki (writer), Takehiko Kojima (actor), Shin Kaneko (actor),

Tenichibo to Iganosuke (1926)

Actors: Teinosuke Kinugasa (director), Teruko Makino (actress), Tsuyako Okajima (actress), Haruko Izumi (actress), Kodayu Ichikawa (actor), Ennosuke Ichikawa (actor), Ennosuke Ichikawa (actor), Tomoshiro Otani (actor), Sanjugo Naoki (writer), Roppuku Nukada (writer), Yonegorô Ichikawa (actor), Genjûrô Sawamura (actor), Dan'en Ichikawa (actor), Kazusaburô Bando (actor), Shôen Ichikawa (actor),