7.2

Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku

1990, Japan

• Actors: Sachiko Murase, Hisashi Igawa, Narumi Kayashima, Tomoko Ôtakara, Mitsunori Isaki, Toshie Negishi, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Choichiro Kawarazaki, Mieko Suzuki, Richard Gere, Shizuko Azuma, Satoko Hayashi, Masahito Hirose, Noriko Honma, Ayao Imada, Tomi Iwasawa, Wasuke Izumi, Saburo Kadowaki, Hiroko Kamaya, Maru Kariya, Tsuyo Kataoka, Shigeo Katô, Setsuko Kawaguchi, Natsuyo Kawakami, Michio Kida, Yoshie Kihira, Sakae Koike, Akiji Maeda, Hiroko Maki, Yoshiko Maki
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Akira Kurosawa
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

An elderly woman living in Nagasaki Japan takes care of her four grandchildren for their summer vacation. They learn about the atomic bomb that fell in 1945, and how it killed their Grandfather. Richard Gere guest stars as an American nephew of the elderly woman.

  8.3

Ran

1985, Japan, France

• Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Hisashi Igawa, Peter, Masayuki Yui, Kazuo Katô, Norio Matsui, Toshiya Ito, Kenji Kodama, Takashi Watanabe, Mansai Nomura, Takeshi Katô, Jun Tazaki, Hitoshi Ueki, Takao Zushi, Yoshitaka Zushi, Tetsuo Yamashita, Akihiko Sugizaki, Masaaki Sasaki, Yoshimitsu Yamaguchi, Masuo Amada, Masaru Sakurai, Sakae Kimura, Ryûjirô Oki, Hanbei Kawai, Ryo Nagasawa
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• Director(s): Akira Kurosawa
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A story of greed, a lust for power, and ultimate revenge. The Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji has decided to step aside to make room for the younger blood of his three sons, Taro, Jiro, and Saburo, the Lord's only wish now being to live out his years as an honored guest in the castle of each of his sons in turn. While the older two sons flatter their father, the youngest son attempts to warn him of the folly of expecting the three sons to remain united; enraged at the younger son's attempt to point out the danger, the father banishes him. True to the younger son's warning, however, the oldest Son soon conspires with the second son to strip The Great Lord of everything, even his title.

  7.5

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970, USA, Japan

• Actors: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Takahiro Tamura, Eijirô Tôno, Jason Robards, Wesley Addy, Shogo Shimada, Frank Aletter, Koreya Senda, Leon Ames, Junya Usami, Richard Anderson, Kazuo Kitamura, Keith Andes, Susumu Fujita, Edward Andrews, Bontarô Miake, Neville Brand, Ichiro Ryuzaki, Leora Dana, Asao Uchida, George Macready, Norman Alden, Kazuko Ichikawa, Walter Brooke, Hank Jones
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Richard Fleischer
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they are attempting to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy fails, the military are hatching plans for a surprise early Sunday morning air attack on the U.S. base at Pearl Harbour. American intelligence is breaking the Japanese diplomatic messages but few high-ups are prepared to believe that an attack is likely, let alone where or how it might come.