The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.

1954 film by Roberto Rossellini

1967 film directed by Jacques Demy

The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a shocking secret.

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

1960 film by Nagisa Ōshima

The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father.

1937 film by Jean Renoir

1977 film by Chris Marker

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him. His counterpart is his older sister, who defends her own interests regardless of the consequences. Her determination to better herself, her willingness to do anything to escape poverty, is emblematic of Japanese post-war society. Yoichi, on the other hand, has only the binoculars left to him by an uncle to help him dream about another world, far away from his family. The film’s melancholy tone depicts Yoichi’s fate as inescapable: “Man’s happiness or sadness is fixed before birth”, he declares at some point. By the end, the conflict between obligation and fulfilling your dreams has given way to quiet resignation. 秋本洋一の家は、ある下町の隅で魚屋をやっており、父源吉、母お新、姉豊子、妹和枝等の弟妹と七人家族で細々と暮していた。洋一は魚屋が嫌いで船乗りに憧れ叔父から貰った双眼鏡を手に毎日二階から遠くを眺めていた。姉の豊子は貧乏が嫌いで、恋人の須藤と結婚の約束をしていたが、彼の父が事業に失敗したと聞くと彼から離れた。次いで豊子は新たに、金持の五十男との話を家族の反対をよそに一人で進めていた。こうした時、源吉は心臓病で倒れた。洋一は父と母の言葉に、魚屋になる決心をした。こうした洋一を慰めてくれるのは、双眼鏡に写る少女の姿であった。ある日、洋一と友人の原田は双眼鏡の少女の家を探し当てたが、その少女は、いたいたしい病身の身で嫁いで行くところだった。洋一の姉豊子は、勤務先の課長に親代りになってもらい、五十男の後妻になったが、別れた筈の須藤と箱根で遊んだりする無軌道ぶりを示していた。こうした彼女を探す夫の電話に、病をおして出た父源吉は、くずれるように倒れた。源吉の死後、妹の和枝は大阪の叔父幸造に引き取られていった。原田の母喜代からは、親友の一家が北海道に転任することを知らされ、若い洋一の上には、次から次へと厳しい現実の波が打ち寄せてきた。それから四年、洋一は茨の道を雄々しく切り開き、今は小ぎれいな店で母と共に、あざやかな手つきで刺身を切っていた。夕やけ雲の下、細々と立つ夕げの煙を前に崖に立つ洋一は、“さようなら、俺の愛していたみんな、遠メガネの女も、妹も、友達も、船乗りに憧れた青春の夢も”と呟いた。

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.

1962 film by Mikio Naruse

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.