
January 23, 1956 · 70 years old

A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai (Kimura) and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.

The life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from the early 1930's to his death at the hands of the US military in 1943.

Legendary tea master Sen no Rikyu is faced with his warmongering lord's unrealistic pretensions.

The ups and downs of the Takezawa family after one of the four daughters found out that their father had been in an unknown love affair.

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relations...

The mentally troubled son of a shogun falls for a girl who's been raised in the mountains.