Nagano, Nagano

Rengô kantai shirei chôkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (2011)

Actors: Kippei Shîna (actor), Kôji Yakusho (actor), Tarô Iwashiro (composer), Yoshihiko Hakamada (actor), Toshirô Yanagiba (actor), Akira Emoto (actor), Mieko Harada (actress), Hiroshi Abe (actor), Teruyuki Kagawa (actor), Tôru Masuoka (actor), Masatô Ibu (actor), Takeo Nakahara (actor), Rena Tanaka (actress), Hiroshi Tamaki (actor), Nobuko Miyamoto (actress),

Tôkyô oashisu (2011)

Actors: Ryô Kase (actor), Ken Mitsuishi (actor), Shinichi Fushima (editor), Tomoyo Harada (actress), Masako Motai (actress), Satomi Kobayashi (actress), Mikako Ichikawa (actress), Kumi Kobata (producer), Mitsuru Ôshima (producer), Haru Kuroki (actress), Tomohiko Seki (producer), Taeko Ohnuki (composer), Kana Matsumoto (director), Kana Matsumoto (writer), Shûichi Komuro (producer),

Plot: The floating clouds between the high buildings, the lines of the taillights under the moonlight, the swirling human waves... Every view in Tokyo looks as if it is alive. Before even she realizes, TOUKO starts to run away from somewhere in the city. As an actress in a fantasy world, Touko seems to have lost her grip on reality. Along her journey, she makes acquaintance with people who carry similar issues. A midnight truck driver NAGANO, who happens to give Touko a ride, is grappling with the discovery of his soul, and his soul is unable to move forward. His escape from reality is to continually move from place to place. A movie theater manager KIKUCHI is uncertain of her life. She has moved to new surroundings but feels more lost than ever. A young job seeker at the zoo YASUKO has no faith in her future. She thinks that the luck is slipping away from her. During the extraordinary time they spend together Touko and the 3 characters start to feel a new awareness growing and discover a natural freedom. Together they feel the sense of change taking place. The moment they find the oasis within. Finally, Touko begins to walk again with lightened steps toward a new beginning of everyday life in Tokyo.

Gekido no showashi 'Gunbatsu' (1970)

Actors: Toshirô Mifune (actor), Tatsuyoshi Ehara (actor), Toshio Kurosawa (actor), Hideyo Amamoto (actor), Akihiko Hirata (actor), Shôichi Hirose (actor), Susumu Fujita (actor), Tôru Abe (actor), Yûzô Kayama (actor), Shin Kishida (actor), Ryûji Kita (actor), Kazuo Kitamura (actor), Keiju Kobayashi (actor), Akira Kubo (actor), Tatsuya Mihashi (actor),

Plot: Reporter Goro Arai covers the war for a Japanese newspaper. He follows the activities of Japan's top military leader, Hideki Tojo, and comes to view Tojo as a dangerous military tyrant. But anyone standing in Tojo's way is in danger, and so it proves for Arai.

Rengô kantai shirei chôkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (1968)

Actors: Susumu Kurobe (actor), Ryûji Kita (actor), Tôru Abe (actor), Akira Kubo (actor), Akihiko Hirata (actor), Tatsuyoshi Ehara (actor), Shûichi Ikeda (actor), Yû Fujiki (actor), Yoshio Inaba (actor), Susumu Fujita (actor), Hisaya Itô (actor), Daisuke Katô (actor), Yûzô Kayama (actor), Nadao Kirino (actor), Toshio Kurosawa (actor),

Plot: As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war, Yamamoto, despite his misgivings, believes the only possible victory lies in destroying the American fleet by surprise at Pearl Harbor. The attack succeeds, but fails to sink the American carrier fleet. Thus Yamamoto must lead the Japanese navy into war with ever-diminishing likelihood of success.

Gunshû no naka no taiyô (1959)

Actors: Ruriko Asaoka (actress), Ichirô Ikeda (writer), Keisuke Yukioka (actor), Zenji Yamada (actor), Tomio Aoki (actor), Ikunosuke Koizumi (actor), Kaku Takashina (actor), Tôru Abe (actor), Shinsuke Ashida (actor), Nobuo Kaneko (actor), Nobuo Kawakami (actor), Ryoji Hayama (actor), Akira Kobayashi (actor), Seitaro Omori (composer), Umetsugu Inoue (writer),

Ohtori-jo hanayome (1957)

Actors: Masao Mishima (actor), Hitomi Nakahara (actress), Kensaku Hara (actor), Takashi Shimura (actor), Harue Akagi (actress), Jun Tazaki (actor), Takashi Kanda (actor), Kyoji Sugi (actor), Eitarô Shindô (actor), Tsukie Matsuura (actress), Sadatsugu Matsuda (director), Kinnosuke Takamatsu (actor), Kunio Kaga (actor), Kenji Susukida (actor), Ushio Akashi (actor),

Daigoretsu no kyofu (1942)

Actors: Yukiko Todoroki (actress), Ryûji Kita (actor), Keiju Kobayashi (actor), Bontarô Miake (actor), Michitaro Mizushima (actor), Yasushi Nagata (actor), Mantarô Ushio (actor), Ichirô Izawa (actor), Kazuaki Komiya (actor), Hirotoshi Murata (actor), Kôji Nakata (actor), Shiko Saito (actor), Tsunehiko Kasahara (actor), Kanzo Yoshii (actor), Ryoichi Kikuchi (actor),