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- Earliest surviving feature film depicting legend of the 47 ronin (see Mizoguchi, Inagaki, Ichikawa, and others)
- Two male musicians fall in love, but blackmail and scandal makes the affair take a tragic turn.
- Story of distant mountainous region in Georgia that depicts folklore, lifestyle and daily routines of Svani people, focuses on the scarcity of salt in Svaneti region. Rich with documentary value, the movie also served for Soviet propaganda.
- An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
- The story of generations of kelp merchants in Osaka.
- The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
- The sharp, often hilarious satire that became the most successful film in Israeli history (until that time) is about new immigrants Sallah and his family, who are left in a shack near their promised apartment and are abandoned for months. A Yemenite Jewish family that was flown to Israel during "Operation Magic Carpet" - a clandestine operation that flew 49,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel the year after the state was formed - is forced to move to a government settlement camp. The patriarch of the family, portrayed by Chaim Topol, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.
- Two friends are drafted to the army and eventually becomes kamikaze pilots.
- A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory.
- Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to the Tokugawa shogunate and to an elegant code of action and behavior. Kondo leads the band against the forces of the Emperor in hopes of preventing his restoration to the throne.
- Shinji, a popular geisha, falls in love with a small coal mine owner Shimada and fights with him against a cruel rich coal mine owner Osuga, who exploits his workers. A lot of action, romance and swordplay.
- A Japanese sailor arrives in Cuba, willing to know the country and meet its people, after a decade of a revolutionary process. He feels attracted to Marcia, a young Cuban girl, who willingly shows him her country, and tells him about the years of terror that she lived under Fulgencio Batista's regime, when her family was killed. But they will have to make a decision, when she feels more inclined to dedicate her life to the revolution.
- Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.
- Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected Sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the deep south.
- A serial killer in San Francisco murders without motive or apparent pattern and taunts the police with phone calls and letters.
- After the Civil War, a black ex-union soldier, his wife, and his son settle in Arizona Territory to homestead and build their lives. At first, Caleb Revers race doesn't seem to matter, but then things change.
- In the 1970s, the Japanese youth emancipation also found it's way into the yakuza (crime) societies. A Girl Boss may have a choice between bikes, and between boyfriends. But she has to defend her choices the hard way, as her triumph and power over the girls' gang is questioned by her female rivals, and the all powerful Yakuza Boss. She inspires loyalty to her girls, and to men to the extent of many of them literally giving their lives for her - in a world of knife and gun fighting, bike and car chasing, and violent death.
- First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.
- Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from corrupt reform schools? Rica could be considered a bit of an expert on reform schools, having spent most of her early life in and out of them. When Rica is dragged back once again, she gets a severe beating and is finally sent off to a mental hospital with the intention of selling her and her pals into a slave trade. A trader takes Rica's friend Jun to a mountain cottage where she's pegged for the lead in his clandestine porno film operation. Once again, it's up to tough-as-nails Rica to bust up this corrupt racket once and for all.
- A low-life crook gets a job as a yakuza hit-man and proceeds to pretend to be a big shot. There are, however, things that cannot be faked.
- Rica wanting a new start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thinks as trouble always seems to find her. She looks into a ship that exploded and all survived this disaster who comes in contact with her dies.
- Meet a mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, reclusive cousins of Jackie O., managing to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, NY, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot.
- A group of juvenile delinquents are transferred to a new prison, where the corrupt staff takes advantage of the vulnerable inmates, and fight for dominance and backstabbing is the inmates' only way to survive.
- Victims in the fishing community by Japan's Shiranui Sea of poisoning by Chisso, a fertilizer and chemical company, reflect on their struggle to survive.
- Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of any situation, but will he survive this, the gutsiest assault ever attempted?