Den unge nyuddannede Dr. Yasumoto ankommer til en fattigt landhospital, ledet af Dr. Niide – Rødskæg. Han er ambitiøs og arrogant uden særlig interesse for sine fattige patienter og finder, at Rødskæg er en krævende arbejdsgiver. Rødskæg er fuldstændig dedikeret til sine patienter og forlanger en asketisk livsførelse af sine ansatte. I mødet med Rødskæg ændrer Yasumoto langsomt holdning til sine patienter og begynder at engagere sig i deres liv.

I det feudale Japan, under en blodig krig mellem klaner, støder to kujonagtige og grådige bønder, soldater fra en besejret hær, på en mystisk mand, der fører dem til en fæstning skjult i bjergene.

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.

En klanherre er draget bort for en stund, hvilket giver et par af hans undersåtter anledning til at planlægge et kup. En gruppe unge samuraier fatter mistanke og er fast besluttet på at komme herrens familie og kammerherre – som er blevet kidnappet af de skurkagtige komplotmagere – til undsætning. En døsig Sanjuro viser sig nu på scenen og rådgiver de unge og voldsomt naive samuraier til at handle med hovedet og ikke lade følelserne løbe af med sig. Til at begynde med er de noget skeptiske over for den snuskede og taktløse lejesoldat, men efter at han har bevist sin snilde og kampevne i flere situationer, overgiver de unge helte sig efterhånden til Sanjuros ledelse.

I den 16. århundredes Japan narre krigsherre Shingen Takeda fjenden ved at bruge tyven Kagemusha som dobbeltgænger. Alligvel bliver Shingen myrdet, men for at undgå kaos og nederlag bliver Kagemusha tvunget til at overtage den døde krigsherre identitet og ansvar.

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.

Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there. Jessica's terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her.

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides to have him ruled incompetent and Dr. Harada, a Domestic Court counselor, attempts to arbitrate.

The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.

With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.

Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?

Klædt i blå jeans, sorte læderjakker og med dårlig opførsel var Stanley, Butchey, Chico og Wimpy en bande i 1950'ernes Brooklyn - en flok cool, sexede oprørere. Trods deres barske ydre ville disse drenge bare more sig, men virkeligheden - også kaldet voksenlivet - stikker sit grimme fjæs frem, da Stanleys kæreste fortæller ham, at de er nødt til at gifte sig, og arbejderen Chico falder for en smuk blondine fra den rige side af jernbanesporet.

This is a documentary about an honest search for the truth about the Federal Reserve Bank and the legality of the Internal Revenue System. Through extensive interviews with recognised experts and authority, the director shows an astonishing revelation of how the Federal Government and the Bankers have fooled the American public by taking thier wages and putting it in the pockets of the super-rich.

Known for his spectacular pyrotechnic displays, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang creates his most ambitious project yet: Sky Ladder, a visionary, explosive event that he pulls off in his hometown in China after 20 years of failed attempts.

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.

After his training as a policeman, the young, shy Köppe is transferred to a northern German town. Unfortunately, in an area where fox and rabbit say goodnight, there is little for a lawman to do. So Köppe kills time with the search for mysterious cow murderers, flirting with two attractive women and befriending a likeable petty crook.

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.

In an ancient sport traditionally reserved for men, 20-year-old female sumo prodigy Hiyori attempts to revolutionize Japan’s national pastime.