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The second film in the 20 Duels of Young Shingo trilogy directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda.
20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2
The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.
Gambler's Farewell
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother...
Lady Snowblood
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the...
Hiroshima Mon Amour
The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his father, the Shogun. However, his journey is...
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
American private eye Harry Kilmer returns to Japan to rescue a friend's kidnapped daughter from the clutches of the Yakuza.
The Yakuza
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Mother
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
The Face of Another
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the...
The X from Outer Space
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and...
Woman in the Dunes
A biographical movie about Shinran
Shinran
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.
Antarctica
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
During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After crushing almost all of his enemies, Date Masamune...
Hawk of the North
Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and...
Utamaro's World
Rebel Against Glory
Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same...
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become...
The Ugly American
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo,...
Spring Bell
The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases,...
White Beast
Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring...
Assassination
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an...
This Transient Life
Post World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military. One day, he is arrested due to the plotting of...
Records of Bloodshed
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
Heat Wave
Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are...
I Am a Cat
A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there.
Frozen River
As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life...
She and He
At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local...
Lost Love
Director Koreyoshi Kurahara chronicles the lives of Flep and Leila, two foxes living in northern Japan. First, Flep must fight for Leila before the...
The Glacier Fox
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.
A Billionaire
Hayata and his best friend Ushijima came to Tokyo to become champions. Hayata repeatedly sought to join Tamura's boxing club, but Tamura fell in love...
Showdown in Blood
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government...
My Way
Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond.
Rififi in Tokyo
The film deals with the recruitment of race car driver Jiro Miki (Masao Kusakari) and his dog, Caesar, to a group of people who use ESP,...
ESPY
The film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of an atomic bomb on humans for the first time in history.
Hiroshima
Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
Christ in Bronze
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life...
The Scent of Incense
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the...
August without Emperor
Avalanche
Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo....
Sanshiro Sugata
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a...
The Stairway to the Distant Past
1949 drama film
A Woman's Face
A made for TV movie that would be loosely remade as Magnitude 7.9 or DEATHQUAKE
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
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
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new...
Blood Type: Blue
In the 9th year of the Tempo era, after a long sea voyage, Moritaya Seizo returned to Hirado, who earned huge amounts of gold by piracy. Along the...
Hirado Pirates
Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.
Secret Liaisons
The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and...
Lullaby of the Earth
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
The Gate of Youth Part 2
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an...
Love and Faith
From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a...
Dog of Fortune
A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the...
The Alaska Story
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...
The Sands of Kurobe
Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.
Silence
Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to...
Vixen
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
Japanese crime film.
Cobra 2
Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn...
Vacuum Zone
Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair...
Rebellion of Japan
Tonomura has a singular taste in women. He likes them, but he wants them tattooed. To this end, young Osayo has herself decorated with a celebrated...
Tattooed Temptress
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
Till We Meet Again
A man with many disguises uses robotic beetles, man-made monsters and other devices to try and steal atomic power.
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
First film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
Fourth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
Second film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period, and the hurricane-like inner side of his life.
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
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
Modern sex and thrill film about tattooed prostitute.
Devil in My Flesh
Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
Japanese film based on the song by Harumi Miyako.
Love in the North
Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The officer in command orders Lieutenant Uji to shoot...
The End of a Day
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and...
The Strangling
A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to...
Secret Information
An ex-Olympic athlete and a student commit cash robbery. Aki Hoshino, a pre-med student, becomes inspired to steal money the school collected as...
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Portrayed by a pair of up and...
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her...
Portrait of Chieko
During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful era. This left a large number of unemployed...
Festival of Swordsmen
Aoi Shingo, a son of the Shogun, continues his travels seeking to further his mastery of the sword. In this final episode of the popular...
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
In a fishing town by the Seto Sea, a student discovers a woman motionless on the beach and takes her back to his family's inn to nurse her, but he...
Permanent Blue
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the...
The Scarlet Camellia
A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.
Manhunt
A gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer discovers the set-up behind the killing - that a...
Red Target
These are the first two parts of the popular series in which a young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite...
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl, Chika, from an affluent family. He has a difficult time,...
Crazed Fruit
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
A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.
Weeping Doll
In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one...
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
The epic battles between the Heike and Genji (Taira and Minamoto clans) take centerstage as the defeated leader of the Genji, Minamoto Yoritomo...
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...
The Story of Pure Love
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
A Ripple in a Morning
A man and a woman drift ashore after a typhoon. The man, dead, is an escaped perpetrator, and the woman, alive, is a hairdresser Masako. A detective...
Praying Mantis
Youth movie.
Hadashi no seishun
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 Will to Live
A samurai warrior is terrorised by the demon Agi.
Agi, the Fury of Evil
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...
The Eleventh Hour
A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.
The Yamabiko School
A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.
Magnitude 7.9
Green Requiem
Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be (Ichiro Araki) is...
Pretty Devil Yoko
Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale of Japan’s inner battles that led to the...
Restoration Fire
Shunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging house girl who is in love with him and in the midst...
Karate Sanshiro
Finding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the 'Bahansen' (Pirate ships) based on the Seto Inland Sea during the Warring Period...
The Pirates
Japan's Most Chivalrous
Yuzo Kayama is an American-Japanese operative working for the US to uncover an arms deal between an American seller and Chinese communists, and to...
Bullet Wound
Shi no dangai
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
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in...
Take Me Away!
A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.
At the End of the Clouds
Katsu, who belongs to the Murai group of the Sakagami Union, was frustrated by the distance from the yakuza world he had envisioned. At that time,...
Summer of the Lion Kings
Violence
This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza.
Fearless Opposition
A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the...
Kyukei no Koya
The Killing Game
A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work deals with Kashima Rinkai industrial zone...
The Earth is Born Again