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A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
Early Spring
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...
Kwaidan
Night in Hawaii
American private eye Harry Kilmer returns to Japan to rescue a friend's kidnapped daughter from the clutches of the Yakuza.
The Yakuza
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a...
The Makioka Sisters
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo,...
Hunter in the Dark
In 1943, as Japan's WWII effort falters, a vice-admiral proposes training squadrons of "volunteer" flyers to crash their armed planes into Allied...
For Those We Love
Shuzenji Monogatari (The Mask and Destiny) is based on a 12th-century Japanese legend. An abortive royal romance leads to an escalating series of...
The Mask and Destiny
Zero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called Chatze(sp?) played by Felix Silas. The inspector has...
Mastermind
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between...
Her Brother
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
I Will Buy You
Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old...
Lullaby to Kill
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles...
The Twilight Samurai
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...
The Thick-Walled Room
A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown, so a bevy of lawyers and...
The Inheritance
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling...
Tora-san Loves an Artist
Akira, a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam, falls in love with a Japanese woman at Schiphol Airport who he thinks is his high school love.
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
The Snow Flurry
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
The Garden of Women
The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.
The Rendezvous
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
A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.
Growing Up
Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man who looked like a merchant retrieved the wallet...
治郎吉格子
Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known...
The Imposter
During the end of the shogunate, there was a group of black-clothed masked samurai known as the "Crow Squad" who resisted the shogunate's oppression,...
疾風からす隊
Okazaki Domain samurai Inaba Gotaro accidentally killed a superior while trying to save his beloved geisha, Ko-en. On the run, they were rescued by...
お役者小僧 江戸千両幟
1953 Japanese movie
Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu
A film by Hideo Suzuki.
A Dangerous Hero
Kyōshū
母恋草
Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a circus tour when she discovers that her father,...
Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They live in such a poverty that Sota cannot even afford...
Snow Prince
Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she learned...
Koto: The Ancient City
Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her decision to move to France and to marry director Yves...
Keiko Kishi, Eternally Rebellious
This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by...
An Heir's Place
The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
Flying in the Air
The wedding of actress Keiko Kishi and filmmaker Yves Ciampi.
Keiko and Yves Get Married
Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie
Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating...
Queen Bee
The masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is it really our hero, or an imposter?
Karuma Tengu: The Fire Festival
1951 Japanese movie
Minami kaze
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945....
Always in My Heart
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
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
Always in My Heart Part 2
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.
Always in My Heart Part 3
Vincent is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He enters into an affair with nightclub owner Jenny, but...
The Uninhibited
A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.
Mother's First Love
French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist Richard Sorge, who was executed in 1944 after he...
Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?
The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh...
Noh Mask Murders
Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long...
Ten Dark Women
In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another...
Three Loves
The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with...
Love Under the Crucifix
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...
Snow Country
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both...
I Lived, But...
A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite...
The Refugee
Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering...
Kah-chan
The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace,...
Home Sweet Home
Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named...
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at...
Honno-Ji in Flames
An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes...
The Fossil
The Den of Beasts
Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the...
Haha machi gusa
Why She Won't Marry
Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial accident. He lives with his elderly mother and wife near...
Shikibu monogatari
Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a...
Doctor's Day Off