Daisuke Katō Movies

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...

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...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...

Melodrama about a young woman who saves a young man from the world of evil after he has saved her from blindness.

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...

A high school girl kills her father's mistress.

A heartbroken beauty has slipped into the ranks of the "Golden Horse" circus troupe. The circus's two star performers, vying for her affection, face...

Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look...

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Inside a bustling postwar Tokyo beer hall, a diverse group of patrons, performers, and workers spend a single evening navigating their personal...

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

A young judo athlete ends up working as a cabaret bouncer.

A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair.

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He...