Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an infant. Bunzo loves Keiji so much that he does every thing to protect his grandson. Sonoda Keiko, a new young teacher comes to the school when a new term starts. She wants Keiji to go back to school. After two years absence from school, Keiji tries to attend the class but he cannot continue. All pupils hold an exhibition of Keiji’s paintings in the village shrine to make him happy. He is very pleased and gives his paintings to them and to Keiko, he gives a painting entitled "Spring Pony". When this picture is awarded a prize in the National Friendship Painting Compettition, it is like a new beginning for Keiji’s family.

山田正助はもの心もつかぬうち親に死別し世の冷たい風に晒されてきたから、三度三度のオマンマにありつける上、何がしかの俸給までもらえる軍隊は、全く天国に思えた。意地悪な二年兵が、彼が図体がでかく鈍重だからというだけで他の連中よりもビンタの数を多くしようと大したことではなかった。ただ人の好意と情にはからきし弱かった。入営した日に最初に口をきいてくれたからというだけで棟本に甘えきったり、意地悪二年兵に仇討してやれと皆にケツを叩かれても、いざ優しい言葉をかけられるとフニャフニャになってしまう始末だった。だが、中隊長の寄せる好意には山正も少々閉口した。営倉に入れられれば一緒につきあうし、出て来れば柿内二等兵を先生にして強引に読み書きを習わせる。昭和七年大演習の折、山正は天皇の“実物”を見た。期待は全く裏切られたが、この日から山正は天皇が大好きになった。戦争が終るという噂が巷に流れ出すと、山正は天国から送り出されまいとあわてて「拝啓天皇陛下様」と、たどたどしい手紙をかこうとした。が、それは丁度通り合わせた棟本に発見され、危く不敬罪を免れた。まもなく戦況は激化、満州事変から太平洋戦争へと戦線は拡がり、山正はその度に応召し、勇躍して戦地にむかった。そして終戦、山正にはただ住みにくい娑婆が待っているだけだった。懐しい棟本を訪れ、ヤミ屋をしたり開拓団に入ったりの生活をしていたが、同じ家に住む未亡人に失恋した日から山正は姿を消した。そして再び姿を見せた時、山正は女房になってくれるという女性を連れて来て棟本を喜ばせた。雪の降る朝、「酔漢トラックにはねられ即死」新聞は山正の死を伝えた。棟本はいい知れぬ悲しみに泣いた。

中冈将军和他的家人的故事，原子弹爆炸时谁住在广岛，以及他们在核浩劫中的斗争和审判......

奇想天外の豪華絢爛大時代絵巻
源頼光の大江山の鬼退治！
大映オールスター総動員の娯楽超大作！
豪華！妖艶！怪奇！復讐に燃えて巨牛に化け大蜘蛛に変化する鬼面の妖怪出没！
藤原一門と悲恋の美女を守るのは源氏の若武者！
目もあやに空前のスケールで繰り広げられる大時代絵巻！
御伽噺「大江山の鬼退治」を材にとる川口松太郎の原作を映画化。
大江山の鬼を演じる長谷川一夫と源氏の大将頼光役の市川雷蔵が火花を散らす、宿命の対決シーンが壮観！
田中徳三がエンタテインメント性に溢れた大スペクタクル時代劇に仕上げる。
ヒロインに山本富士子、中村玉緒を迎え、勝新太郎、本郷功次郎、金田一敦子、浜田ゆう子、阿井美千子、左幸子らオールスターが絢爛に競演。
平安末期。源頼光は関白寵愛の渚の前を護られたが、彼女には物の怪が憑いていた。そこで頼光は忠誠な部下四天王とともに、首領である大江山酒天童子を討つ決心をした。

世界的文豪・モーパッサンの名作を、『砂の器』の野村芳太郎監督が格調高く描いた文芸大作。戦後の日本を舞台に、気高く、美しく、ただひたすらに生きながらも、夫に裏切られ、子供にも裏切られてゆく女の悲劇を、美しい信濃路の四季を背景に描く。
心も姿も美しい女性・伸子は愛していた夫に裏切られ、溺愛していた息子にも出ていかれてしまう…。彼女の悲劇の人生を描いた大河映画。出演は岩下志麻、栗塚旭、田村正和、ほか。

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub. When Murakami’s daughter befriends the mistress, the affair throws the family into turmoil.

A first film as producer/director for the celebrated actress Sachiko Hidari, who plays a leading role herself and can also be seen in Double Suicide at Sonezaki in this year's Festival. Ms. Hidari was born in 1930, and worked as a teacher of music and gymnastics before signing with the independent Sogo Geijutsu company as an actress in 1952. Her first significant appearances were in two of Heinosuke Gosho's 1954 films. An Inn at Osaka and the The Cock Crows Again, and she has subsequently played the female lead in such films as Tomotaka Tosaka's The Maid's Kid, Sosumu Hani's She and He and Imamura's The Insect Woman. She founded her own production company to co-produce The Far Road with the Japanese National Railway Workers' Union with whom she shared a wish to bring to the screen for the first time something of the lives and problems of blue-collar workers in the Japanese Railways. The resulting film is large in ambition and scale; it was two years in production, and finally cost some 120 million yen.
The film begins on Railroad Day (14 October) 1975, with railway employee Ichizo Takinoue travelling to Sapporo with his wife Satoko to receive to Sapporo with his wife Satoko to receive his award for 30 years' service - a wristwatch. That evening, Ichizo's suppressed tensions and resentments come to the surface when for no rational reason he violently opposes his daughter Yuki's proposed marriage. Satoko (played by Ms.Hidari) thinks ruefully back to the day she married Ichizo and reflects on the changes that both they and the Japan National Railway have been through.
Through a series of flashbacks, the film identifes the crucial year of transition. In the early 60's, when the family had two young children and Satoko went out to work as well as Ichizo, the first wave of modernisation hit the railways: job security was threatened and Ichizo twice failed his promotion exams. By 1966, the introduction of new technology was resulting in lay-offs: Satoko, feeling that she should not have to work simply to earn enough for the family to live on, urged Ichizo to join the Union and support its fight or job security and better wages. In 1970, the Marusei (production improvement movement) took off, and a second Railway Workers' UNion was founded, this one secretly guided by the JNR management. Factionalism set in, and old friends found themselves divided.....Back in the present, Ichizo takes stock of his situation and realises that he has been taking out his feelings of uncertainty and impotence on his family. He gives his blessing to his daughter's marriage, and he and Satoko travel with their daughter and son-in-law to Nagasaki. The young couple inspire the old couple to reassess the 'far road' ahead of them.
(Tony Rayns 3rdHKIFF)

As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life shrinks in scope and intimacy. She finds new interests, new love, and a greater sense of her place in the world.

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

大正14（1925）年、侠客の飛車角（鶴田浩二）は恋人おとよ（藤純子）をめぐって人を斬り、その逃亡の途中で、老侠客・吉良常（辰巳柳太郎）と出会い、彼の勧めで自首する。しかしその投獄中、おとよは玉の井に身を売り、客の宮川（高倉健）と愛し合うようになってしまう……。
尾崎士郎の名作小説『人生劇場』の第3部『残侠篇』を名匠・内田吐夢監督のメガホンで映画化。幾度も映画化された『人生劇場』の中でも最高傑作の誉れも高い名作任侠映画である。鶴田の演じる飛車角も、任侠と愛の苦悩をにじませた優れもの。また脇に至るまでの東映オールスター・キャストがそれぞれ柄に合った好演。殺陣のすさまじさも含め、任侠映画ファンは一度は観ておくべき作品である。（増當竜也）
内容（「GAGAデータベース」より）
尾崎士郎原作による大河小説「人生劇場・残侠篇」を、巨匠・内田吐夢監督が映画化した任侠ドラマ。姿を消したおとよと飛車角を再会させた吉良常。だが、デカ虎一家から喧嘩状を受けた飛車角は、病床に臥せる吉良常をよそに単身デカ虎一家に乗り込む。

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.

バス会社に勤める緑川奎子はＢ・Ｂ・Ｓ（ビッグ・ブラザース・アンド・スターズ）のメンバーになった。Ｂ・Ｂ・Ｓとは非行少年少女たちを兄や姉の立場になって更生させる運動のことである。信夫は彼女が始めて扱う少年であった。彼は父親殺しの未遂で少年院から出たばかりだ。最初の夜、信夫は奎子をジャズホールに連れて行った。酔った奎子が気づいたとき、二人はホテルの一室にいた。しかし、信夫は彼女が心をきめて風呂に入って...

The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.

典子（一ノ瀬康子）とトシ（大場久美子）は対照的な美少女だ。感受性に富み、神秘的な美しさを秘める典子に対して、トシは水泳選手らしいおおらかさと豊かな肢体の持ち主。この二人の女子高校生のレズビアンラブと、取り巻く男女間の相克が、戦慄の惨劇を呼び起こした・・・。

1965 film by Tomu Uchida

A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth.

1963 film by Shōhei Imamura

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.