Cruel Story of Youth / Seishun zankoku monogatari (1960)
Drama
Master director Nagisa Oshima's seminal second feature – a brutal and beautiful portrait of two doomed, rebellious young lovers living fast and dying young in the sleazy backstreets of Tokyo.
Starring: Miyuki Kuwano, Yoshiko Kuga, Yûsuke Kawazu, Shinji Tanaka, Fumio Watanabe
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
The Rose on His Arm / Taiyo to bara (1956)
Drama
A young man raised in poverty becomes involved with a gang of wealthy youths, to the concern of his single mother. He tries to stick to the straight and narrow, but begins to lose himself to their bad influence.
Starring: Katsuo Nakamura, Sadako Sawamura, Noriko Arita, Akira Ishihama, Yoshiko Kuga, Kuniko Miyake, Shinji Tanaka
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Hadaka no shima / The Naked Island (1960)
Drama
The film depicts a small family, a husband and wife and two sons, struggling to get by on a tiny island in the Seto Inland Sea, over the course of a year. They are the island's only occupants, and survive by farming. They must repeatedly carry the water for their plants and themselves in a row boat from a neighboring island…
Starring: Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka, Masanori Horimoto
Director: Kaneto Shindo
