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When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first...
Fifth Movement
Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yonetaro fell asleep after being kicked by a sick...
The Life of a Horse-Trader
In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his...
A Lonely Gamble
Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie
Hana to ryu
A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and...
The Long Darkness
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
The Chase after Opium Dealers
Hunting Opium-Eaters
Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their...
Village of Dreams
1962 Japanese movie
Zoku aizen katsura
Sequel to 'Sniper THE SHOOTIST'
The Shootist 2
Hoodlum Soldier on the Attack
Third film of the yoidore hakase series
Drunken Harbor
Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a...
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man,...
Heroic Purgatory
In the former landfill, where construction is currently underway, the corpse of a middle-aged man with an unusual rosary in his hand was dug up. An...
Police Department Story Pt.19: Landfill
Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his...
Lone Wolf Isazo
Ai no uzu shio
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.
The Shadow Within
A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.
Sweet Secret
A burnt corpse of a man was found in Okutama. As a result of the investigation, it turns out that the criminal strangled the victim with a bandage,...
Police Precinct Part 21
A young girl must spend six years making sweatshirts out of poison ivy in order to save her six brothers which have been turned into swans by an evil...
The Wild Swans
Ano hashi no hotori de dai 2-bu
Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.
Pursuit
An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own...
Blood Is Dry
After decades of single-minded dedication to his work, a worker with an elite career course at a major bank is transferred or rather relegated to a...
Life in Overtime
Ken Watanabe, a young man from Tokyo, comes to the great plains of Rumo, Hokkaido to see his hometown with his own eyes. Ken, who was entangled in...
Showdown in the Red Valley
TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.
The Rokumeikan
Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station....
Dispersed Clouds
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...
Policeman's Diary
As the monk Ryuun, whose past and origin make him prone to internal and external fits, leaves the temple towards Tokyo, he gets to catch a glimpse of...
Water Moon
Japanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.
Tetsugen
Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga,...
The Conspirator
Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the family. She fell in love with her language...
White Love
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Eriko" by Yukio Hashi.
Eriko
1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Stray Sheep
Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and...
Hold Me and Kiss Me
A high school student Hitomi poses as a university student and ends up in falling in love with middle-aged Okawa, her dead mother's ex-boyfriend....
Early Spring Story
This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.
Snow Country
Hikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his soul, allowing him to cure others with his newfound...
Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown
Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the...
New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to...
A House in the Quarter
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
Four Sisters
Kounosuke Mibu and Tae Horikawa are unable to forget each other, even though they met and fell in love 20 years ago. They had promised each other...
Diary of Early Winter Shower
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that...
Drunkard's Paradise
A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
The False Student
A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they...
The Naked Sun
Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to...
Cash Calls Hell
Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during...
Tale of Army Brutality
Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.
The Shogun and His Mistresses
My Brother
Kenshi Tokunaga runs an IT company in Tokyo. Due to a big company, he has a hard time in hiring engineers. He decides to find engineers for his...
Welcome to the Surfing Office
Pressure of Guilt
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...
Maria of the Ant Village
Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan...
Leave My Girl Alone
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
Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.
Love Stopped the Runaway Train
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
Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to...
Last Friends
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with...
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
The Shrikes
A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo,...
Yakuza of Seki
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and...
Willful Murder
Drive for the Future
A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General...
Mid-August Commotion
A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.
Sandakan No. 8
Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.
The Burdened Sisters
Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public pressure, and the territory belonged to the Hirata...
The Fatal Raid