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In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner,...
Tampopo
Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an...
Island of Horrors
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night...
Police Precinct Part 17
A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding...
The Snow Woman
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film - a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.
Apart from Life
A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to...
Distant Thunder
Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the...
Code of Ruffians
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
Ballad of Orin
1962 Japanese movie
Me o tsubutte tsuppashire
Takeshi Nanjo, a junior lieutenant in the navy whose father, the head of the Nanjo-gumi yakuza family, was killed, is forced to leave the army and...
Second Generation Young Boss
Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.
Sea-Boy and Mountain-Boy
Konna onna ni dare ga shita
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
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland...
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.
Island of the Evil Spirits
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
The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.
Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts...
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon...
Village of Doom
1978 Japanese film directed by Yoichi Takabayashi.
In the Realm of Death and Pleasure
First Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
Moonlight Mask
Second Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
Moonlight Mask: Duel to the Death in Dangerous Waters
"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems...
The Time of Reckoning
The 3rd Moonlight Mask movie from the 50s.
Moonlight Mask: Claws of Satan
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
The Garden of Women
Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.
The Tattered Banner
An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.
Man of the World 2
A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community...
Rice
A Young couple find a boad buried under a beach,and are taken to another world where they must face a Deadly cult who want to sacrifice them.
The Sand Boat
The Street Without Sun
Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru...
Time Within Memory
In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and his wizard friend Oroki-maru. The young prince...
The Magic Serpent
A young man from Kyushu,Adachi Futoshi had come to Tokyo to make a life. Adachi moved into a small room in a local boarding house, but he was...
The Great Tale of the Great Tatami Progenitor
In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines,...
The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo,...
Sweet Revenge
This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...
The Brick Factory Girl
After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang.
Young Boss
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...
The River Fuefuki
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...
Nippon no obaachan
Journey
Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.
Drifting
A man sets out to search for his brother among the survivors of Hiroshima after an anonymous letter.
The River - Poem of Wrath
One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised...
Jugyo Sankan no Onna
Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult...
A Taxing Woman's Return
When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons,...
The Inugami Family
The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the American troops began landing on the Saipan island. On...
The Last Women
The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University" to Japan. You should defeat the master player...
The Black Gambler: Left Hand of the Devil
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...
Tower of Lilies
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...
Jakoman and Tetsu
Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to...
New Snow
Venice Film Festival 1939
Children of the Sun
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
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