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A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...
Seven Samurai
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who...
The Hidden Fortress
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...
A Good Man, A Good Day
Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital...
The Chop Professor
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
Night Butterflies
Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.
Asataro the Crow
Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop,...
Koibito-tachi no iru machi
In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
The Life of Oharu
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
Forty-Eight Man
The Phantom Samurai
恐妻時代
Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
1962 Japanese movie
Yume ga ippai abarenbō
Lord Mito Mitsukuni, the vice-shogun of the whole country, left the family estate and went on a trip to various provinces with his students...
Travels of Lord Mito
Seinen no isu
Tenka no Kaidanji Senpû Tarô
1954 Japanese movie
Koina no Ginpei
The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks...
Birth of Romance
The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa...
Vendetta of a Samurai
Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.
Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of the original Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version, "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" (1956),...
Godzilla
San'nin musume kanpai!
Boku chin hōrō-ki
Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount...
Fighting Yasubei
All is Well 2
Based on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts.
Tenten Musume
1950s Japanese comedy.
Third Class Executives
Daigaku kazoe uta senpai kōhai
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
Fountainhead
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover...
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...
Ikiru
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...
I Live in Fear
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
Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the...
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...
Devotion to Railway
Early pinku.
The Chastity Boy and Miss Brassiere
Japanese war film.
Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
Japanese comedy film.
Sararīman monogatari - Taiki bansai
The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru...
The Battleship Yamato
Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker.
Sister with Sister
Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...
Ballad of a Workman
All is Well
Japanese drama film.
Eyes of Mother and Daughter
The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich...
Warm Current
A cosmetics saleswoman falls for a rival executive.
Cosmetic Sales Competition
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield...
Sasuke and His Comedians
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and...
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric...
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Japanese suspense film.
Face in the Dark
The Lord Pretends
The rise of the famed gambler.
Jirocho Rises in Fame
Jirocho's Home-Coming
Jirocho the gambler hits the road.
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
Last of the Wild Ones
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...
Burden of Love
Japanese drama
The Path I Remember
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
All About Marriage
Jacks and Jills
The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa...
The Great White Tiger Platoon
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
My Wonderful Yellow Car
Youth of Heiji Senigata
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...
Sanjuro
1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.
Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker
Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his...
The Lord and the Gambler
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
Zoku shachōtaiheiki
Mr. Lucky
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
Ambush at Iga Pass
Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.
The Phantom Horse
A beautiful girl who seeks revenge, disguises herself by dressing up in men's clothes, geisha, etc. A young swordsman helps her uncover the plot and...
The Swishing Sword
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
Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a...
Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
おヤエのあんま天國
Ken Takakura's screen debut, following his admission into Toei ranks via the studio's annual New Faces program, came surprisingly enough in this pair...
Lightning Karate Blow
Crazy Operation
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
1964 Japanese movie
Garakuta