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Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...
Turbid youth
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
Night Butterflies
1962 Japanese movie
次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the best whaling ship Hayabusa Maru. One day they will...
Men Fighting Whales
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find...
The Crucified Lovers
恐妻時代
Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows...
The Woman in the Rumor
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
Sound of the Mountain
The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous...
Outlaw island
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder...
Tokyo Story
Okashina yatsu
Mannen Taro and His Feminine Colleagues
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
Orders from Hell
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Movie adaptation of the TV series.
A Charming Devil
A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop.
Gang and G-Men Part 2
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly...
Yearning
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
I Will Buy You
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...
My Hobo
Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women...
Stolen Pleasure
1958 Japanese movie
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Love School
A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s a musical comedy that shows Segawa’s...
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
A low ranking yakuza who spends more time enjoying life than doing the yakuza work falls in love with a pretty student girl, whose brother later gets...
Song of Yakuza
Haruko no ōen danchō
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
The story of five sisters.
Five Sisters
Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure...
Where did Sharaku go?
A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.
Dorobō Sodachi Dorobōi
Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.
Inugami-ke no nazo: Akuma wa odoru
That Cute Girl
白磁の人
Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....
Freedom School
The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
Flying in the Air
The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
Toilet Manager
Gekkyū dorobō
Hadaka no Machi
Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
Movie directed by Kunio Matoi
Taiyō Sensei Seishunki
A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand...
A Flame at the Pier
Kigeki: Hanayome sensô
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....
The Thin Line
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka...
An Inn at Osaka
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...
Here Is a Spring
Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.
The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye
Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba returns as the reckless son of a private detective takes on the case of a minor league baseball pitcher who...
Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an...
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes...
With Wife, Children, and Friends
Japanese film.
Santōshain to onna hisho
Japanese comedy film.
Watashi wa uso wa mōshimasen
Boss Takes to the Road
Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological...
A Fishwife's Tale
A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.
You Can Succeed, Too
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to...
Zero Focus
In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...
The Other Woman
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is...
Equinox Flower
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he...
Two in the Shadow
Love's Family Tree
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.
I Hear the Whistle
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it...
An Osaka Story
Ichiro (Chiba) is a scrappy little sport in a big car and funny hat always looking for some fun and some extra cash on the side. He and his friends...
Man with the Funky Hat
Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor.
Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san
A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming...
The Face
Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.
The Black Cat
A story about the nature of office workers today.
Tale of a Company Boss 3
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by...
Moment of Terror
The orphaned son of a count who was assassinated by his subordinates in a conspiracy during the Pacific War becomes obsessed with taking revenge on...
Five Paths to Revenge
This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to...
The Master Spearman
A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.
Adolescence Part II
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
Late Autumn
Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.
Shameless School
An Ishiro Honda film.
Mother and Son
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
Tora! Tora! Tora!
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
On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job...
Mahiru no wana
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...
Women in Prison
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...
Spring Dreams
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...
Happiness of Us Alone
Employee Full of Fight
A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.
Mexican Free-for-All
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
Red-Light Bases
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But...
Taira Clan Saga
Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his...
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a...
Doctor's Day Off
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...
Tokyo Sweetheart
Port City Blues
Story of girls in a Japanese reform school.
Girls Behind the Bars
Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...
I Want to Be a Shellfish
Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and...
The Tokyo Mighty Guy
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...
Life of a Country Doctor
The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
Street of Shame
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
A coming-of-age story that depicts the crisis of love in marital life in a light-hearted way, centering on the family of a young scholar whose young...
New Couple's Guide: The Young Wife is Popular
Love River
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...
Lucky Dragon No. 5
Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a...
I'm a Bodyguard
1961 Japanese movie
愛する
The TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori Issei ("I Am Fujikichirou"), and cinematographed by Honda...
Marathon Samurai
A heartfelt story about a young girl from the choir and her sympathy for a poor boy until she organizes a birthday celebration for him.
Hibari Jolly Angel