SEARCH MOVIES...
A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bakery and café called Mani. One...
Bread of Happiness
Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished...
Hana
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...
Kwaidan
After receiving a package from his grandfather, Ray, a young inventor who lives in England during the mid-19th century, finds himself caught in the...
Steamboy
1962 Japanese movie
次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thieves.
A Samurai's Honor at Pawn
The meeting of the two greatest legends in Japan - Magistrate Toyama, the crime-fighting official with the cherry blossom tattoo on his shoulder, and...
Magistrate Toyama: Conspiracy of a Beautiful Woman! Rampage in Kanhashu
Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after...
The Trail of Blood
When two souls find one another, nothing can tear them apart. Widower Takumi lives a quiet life with his six-year-old son Yuji after the loss of wife...
Be with You
A pair of black-robed thieves who robbed many wealthy merchants in Edo one after another. One of them is a young woman who is called "Aoi no Kozo"...
Hanzo: The Razor
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a...
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
Magically gifted boy Sasuke lives in peace, deep in the forest with his animal pals and Oyu, his elder sister. After their forest sanctuary is...
Magic Boy
Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, is joined by Dororo, a thief on a quest to avenge...
Dororo
Genshiro is a famous Kenkaya of Edo. He turns up in incidents to get interfering fees but gets involved in a terrible incident… the...
Curse of the Seven flutes
A biographical movie about Shinran
Shinran
The Injured Boy
A Devil of a Gentleman
A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, and demanded $5 billion yen from the...
Whiteout
Ganko Oyaji to Edokko Shain
A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail...
Pleasures of the Flesh
After accidentally causing the death of an old lady, Zatoichi tries to do right by buying the lady’s daughter’s freedom from a brothel -...
Zatoichi in Desperation
The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1961 Toei comedy
Tale of A Company Boss Pt.2
Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband.
Demons
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
Kagero-za
A ghost interrupts the journey of two young noblemen who are disguised as merchants.
Ghost Story on Passage
Biopic of painter Tanaka Isson
Adan
Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.
Nami kage
The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.
Times of Joy and Sorrow
Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is...
A Woman Called En
Underneath Himeji Castle, Miyamoto Bensuke was determined to inherit the will of his late father, Shinmen Munenori, and aimed to become a great...
晴姿稚児の剣法
In Marugame Domain of Shikoku, a low-ranking foot soldier named Tagami Genbachi was envied for marrying Tsuji, the most beautiful woman in the...
振袖釼法
Chiba Sōsaku, whose childhood name was Otome, was raised by his father Yukiuemon, the successor of the Hokushin Ittō-ryū style, and...
若き日の千葉周作
Anniversary
On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence....
元祿美少年記
Nakamura Yukinojō, Edo's most popular actor, discovered that his parent's enemy, Ohara Genba, had changed his name to Isshiki Kurōnosuke...
涙の花道
In the mid-Tokugawa period, a conflict arose over the "Seiryū Himon," a secret document left by the former shogun Iesai, bequeathing the eighth...
のんき侍大暴れ
In the Kyōhō era under the Tokugawa shogunate, a conspiracy to usurp the household unfolded at Shinshū Kurohime Castle. The lord,...
黒姫秘帳 前篇 奪われた鬼面、後篇 不知火の美女
Adventures of Mori no Ishimatsu, a famous member of Jirocho gang. Ishimatsu is strong in righteousness weak to mercy, who falls in love at first...
The Traveling Ruffian
An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.
Goaisatsu
Kenji Shiraishi is involved in the trafficking of illegal immigrants from China to Japan. One such case leaves an immigrant child to be an orphan....
Sad Vacation
Ippei Akabane (Takaya Kamikawa) is an unpopular novelist. He barely makes ends meet writing serials novels under different pen names. Daigo Kurei...
The Serialist
In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex...
Shinran: Path to Purity
Tells the life story of Teru Kaneko, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While working as a clerk in a book shop, Teru starts writing...
Misuzu
Biopic of ceramic artist Hazan Itaya (1872-1963).
Hazan
10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They live in such a poverty that Sota cannot even afford...
Snow Prince
JSDF pilot Akane has a fateful encounter when a new Godzilla emerges in Tateyama. As a countermeasure, a cyborg named Kiryu is constructed from the...
Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla
Anime film based on the novel "813" by Maurice Leblanc.
Lupin the Thief: Enigma of the 813
Mourning Work
A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are...
The River with No Bridge
An advertising agency receives a request from one of their clients, a beverage company. The advertising agency proposes a CM involving the queen of...
CM Time
Continuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. Shinran, born of the fading aristocratic class,...
Shinran, Part II
Shimizu Jirocho, the president, manages two businesses: Izumo Kanko-sha and the group inn "Daikokuya." There is a system where customers from Izumo...
次郎長社長と石松社員 安来ぶし道中
Autumn Blossoms
Kae Horii moves into her new flat in an undisclosed area of Kyoto. While unpacking her belongings, she discovers a hidden compartment behind a...
Closed Note
In this exciting story, Sasuke Sarutobi, known as the bravest child in the world, fulfills the will of his father, growing up strong and correct, and...
Kid Magician Sasuke
Young Lord Genjiro, who abandoned his castle to live as a commoner in Edo, returns home to restore peace amidst disruption over an inheritance...
Bull's Eye of Love
Army Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda (Nakamura Shido) has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the jungles of Lubang Island in the Philippines with his...
実録・小野田少尉 遅すぎた帰還
Buriki no kunsho
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...
An Ocean to Cross
A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The...
Roadside Stone
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning...
A Carpenter and Children
A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...
Devotion to Railway
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own...
The Ambitious
Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a...
Raised in a Palace
The life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of India, China and Tibet, then uses their...
Kukai
Based on the original story by Seishi Yokomizo, House of Spider Webs is a gorgeous historical drama thriller starring Kinnosuke Nakamura and directed...
House of Spider Webs
Japanese comedy film.
Tale of a Company Boss
Boss Takes to the Road
A story about the nature of office workers today.
Tale of a Company Boss 3
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
Silence
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
The Rose on His Arm
In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a...
Tatara Samurai
When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samurai Kochiyama Soshun agrees to assist.
Runway to Hell
A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as...
The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...
The Day the Sun Rose
As descendent of famed fishmonger Isshin Tasuke, young feisty Ishii Tasuke uses his talent to flourish his employer’s food business.
The Ambitious Youth
Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He was the second son of Oda Nobuhide, a...
Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda
An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the Kamakura period (1185-1333) in Japan. Nichiren...
Nichiren
Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.
The Magoichi Saga
Wagura Yusaku unwillingly broke up with his first love in high school and became a policeman after years of struggle. Ten years later, the suspect of...
Fate
A woman named Fujiki Asuka arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar master Tamura who had guided Yakuza's escaping as a...
The Lady in a Black Dress
Toei’s 10th anniversary film, featuring an all-star cast from the golden movie era of the 1960s. A famous story of the 47 loyal samurai. When...
The Ako Retainers
A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen...
Koto—The Lake of Tears
Taisuke is kind-hearted but overall lacks ambition. Taizo is smarter, but given to fits of emotion and impulsive violence. The samurai brothers fight...
Unwieldy Brothers
In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to...
Stepbrothers
Fishmonger Tasuke and Shogun Iemitsu swap their identities in pretence for the protection of Iemitsu.
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during...
Tale of Army Brutality
A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countryside.
I Go to Tokyo
Two thrill seeking young lords sneak out of their castles and travel under the disguise of townsmen.
Diary of a Wandering Lord
In the desert of Egypt, Kurata, the CEO of the Japanese corporation Tokokaihatsu, is killed by a sniper. After the news reaches Japan, the CEO's...
Desperate Pursuit
Closed Ward
Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him and only him, yet she is constantly being lust by...
Love Letter
Tamiko (Ayumi Ito) lives happily with her husband Hideaki (Sho Aoyagi) and step-daughter Kotoyo (Hazuki Inoue). Tamiko married her deceased friend...
With All Our Might
The early years of the Showa period were turbulent times for Japan. The country suffered financial crisis and famine, women worked under intolerable...
Man of a Stormy Era
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He...
Samurai Banners
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father....
Bonds
Daisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music and...
And Then
Princess Kazu, the daughter of Shogun Ienari, is sent to marry Matsudaira Nobunao, master of Peacock castle in Kozuke province, a domain of 17,000...
Bride of Peacock Castle
A hard working salaryman takes off five days from his busy job and sets off with his wife and two children to visit his parents in his hometown for...
Traffic Jam
The Fox Dancing in the Dusk
Shizuka (Mami Nakamura) is a young school teacher. She moves to a small village by the sea, near her own home country. The elementary school she is...
A White Ship
Remake of classic samurai film of 1932
The Greatest Man in the World
While on the road, famed Yakuza Boss Jirocho is falsely accused of starting a peasant's uprising and chased by the law. Meanwhile, one of his...
Road of Chivalry
The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .
The Great Road
On New Year's Day 1716, Munenaga of Owari and Yoshinao of Kii were both named as candidates for the title of 8th Shogun. The wise and just Munenaga...
Samurai Vagabonds
The tale of Taira Kiyomori who started as a young inexperienced warrior who led the Heike into the battle against the brutal pirates on Setouchi.
Taira no Kiyomori
In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the shores of Shibaura. A month and a half later,...
Lord Mito: All Star Version
Kome hyappyo
Hell's Juggler
This is an ensemble period drama adapted from Shotaro Ikenami's popular novel, featuring the famous Kabuki actor brothers Kinnosuke Manya and Katsuo...
Baian the Assassin
A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son.
Music Box
One of the true classic's of anime's much-loved robot genre.
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
Juzo Kimura is a wandering Ronin with a past. 15 years later, after winding up in Edo, he becomes a sword teacher to support his wife and daughter....
Faces
This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza.
Fearless Opposition