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A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is...
The Promised Land
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever...
Onibaba
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
Pigs and Battleships
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...
Dodes'ka-den
Neon taiheiki
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a...
Samurai Spy
Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested...
Box: The Hakamada Case
1965 Nikkatsu youth film.
Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu
The main character is Isamu (Hideaki Machida), a sixth grader . Isamu lost his mother in a car accident when he was young. He couldn't forget that,...
Signal Fool
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to...
Red Lion
If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the...
If You Were Young: Rage
Two newlyweds decide to build their dream home, and hire an old friend named Yanagisawa to design it. Unfortunately, Yanagisawa isn’t licensed...
All About Our House
Thirty years after graduation, a man and a woman meet again at an alumni reunion. They are no longer young, but the moment she sees him, memories of...
Coquille
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of...
An Innocent Witch
Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji.
Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin
A young girl named Oshin is sent to work for another family, because of her own family's financial condition. Nevertheless, the young girl lives...
Oshin
Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while...
The Bogus Policeman
A psychologist connects her missing brother to the strange case of a mysterious little girl believed to be Sadako reincarnated.
Sadako
An old man falls into a coma and dreams about his childhood during WWII.
Hoshi wo tsugu mono
A young couple go on the run after the murder of his mother.
A Gap in the Skin
Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.
Secret Liaisons
Japan-Hong Kong co-production.
Secret Agent 101
Death-row inmate Sudo sends a letter to magazine reporter Fujii. In his letter, he states that a man named Kimura, also known as "teacher," committed...
The Devil's Path
From the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated, loving and giving mother, who would sacrifice her own...
Mother
A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress.
The Night of the Seagull
Three people from the future, who travel spiritually to the era of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII Philopator and her Roman lovers Julius Caesar and...
Cleopatra: Queen of Sex
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of...
Bad Girls of Japan
After an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to investigate the organization that's claiming...
O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle....
The Insect Woman
The last judgment.
The Last Judgment