Ballad Of Narayama

Based on the novel by Shichiro Fukazawa, BALLAD OF NARAYAMA retells the ancient custom of the youth of a remote mountain village being charged with the task of driving those over the age of seventy to the top of Mount Narayama where they will await...

Japanese Masters Collection, The

Life Of Oharu, The

The story chronicles the decline through exile, concubinage and prostitution of Oharu Okui. Her sufferings and treatment are analysed until she is finally discarded like an inanimate object.

Mikio Naruse - Three Films (Box Set)

Includes REPAST (1951), SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN (1954) and FLOWING (1956).

Sansho Dayu/Gion Bayashi

Ugetsu Monogatari/Oyu-Sama

UGETSU MONOGATARI is a haunting film set in sixteenth-century war-torn Japan. Two potters leave their wives to pursue their ambitions - one for wealth, the other for glory as a samurai warrior.<BR><BR>OYU-SAMA is the story of a man torn between his...