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Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts...
The Man Who Waited
Following combat duty in Korea, a group of United States Marines (Tom Tryon, David Hedison and Tom Reese) are given a furlough in Japan.
Marines, Let's Go
1962 Japanese movie
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.
Blizzard Ronin
Easy Alley
Keshô yuki
A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Kindaichi investigates.
Ghost Man
The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of...
The Road I Travel with You
Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other.
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but...
The Girl in the Rumor
As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus...
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and...
Lil's Return from Shanghai
Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).
Ichiyo Higuchi
A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a...
Tokyo File 212
Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is...
Learn from Experience, Part Two
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...
Dancing Girl
The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a...
Tipsy Life
Two American G.I.s visiting Tokyo find themselves mixed up with espionage, a pretty flight attendant, a mad scientist, geisha girls, and a goofy...
Geisha Girl
Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in...
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of...
Learn from Experience, Part One
Japanese domestic drama.
A Woman's Sorrows
Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs...
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Wings of Victory
The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the...
Five Men in a Circus
Bouquet of the South Seas
This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to show the Philippine people the "benefits" of the...
The Dawn of Freedom
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American...
The Bridge on the River Kwai
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to...
The Mysterians
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy...
The Wind Cannot Read
A successful auto executive Vinther becomes entwined with a young nubile girl, following an avoidable car accident, that results in the death of a...
One of Those Things
At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens...
Destroy All Monsters
A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.
Three Stripes in the Sun
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the...
Wedding Day
Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves...
The Big Wave
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
A Ripple in a Morning
Ino tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a student, Obata whereas her sister San remains a...
Brother and Sister
Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.
Drifting
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...
47 Ronin
It is presumed to be a lost film.
Shanghai Moon
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...
Floating Clouds
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...
The Eagle of the Pacific
The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone...
Mother of the Red Hands
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...
Sky of Hope
Japanese war movie
Numazu Officer School
Romantic and Crazy