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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 story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her...
Rhapsody in August
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...
Kwaidan
Zesshou
Clumsy invaders from Neptune are thwarted by hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of microshort-wearing Japanese kids.
Invasion of the Neptune Men
1962 Japanese movie
Hitotsu no inochi
On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was...
Police Precinct Part 13
Detectives of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department are investigating the murder of a 15-year-old girl, whose strangled...
Police Department Story Pt.16: 15 Year Old Woman
Hell's Companion
Keishichō monogatari iryū-hin nashi
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
Kataashi no ēsu
Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as the daughter-in-law of Koichi, the eldest son of...
Flower Season
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Zankokuna tsuki
1959 Japanese movie
Keishichō monogatari 108 gōsha
Keishichō monogatari gao no nai on'na
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
Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.
Bored Hatamoto: The Daimonji Conspiracy
A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins,...
Floating Weeds Diary
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
The Garden of Women
The corpse of a man is found in the Dobu River in Tokyo, the victim was a man named Genzaburo Sakai, who was engaged in debt collection. The shoe...
Police Department Story Pt.23: Confession
Hanatarō Jumon
Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.
Sea-Boy and Mountain-Boy
Two people disappeared, engineers of the company Yamato Matsui and Koyama. The two worked overtime, and it is proven that they consumed alcohol...
Police Department Story Pt.24: Missing
Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"
The Forest Is Alive
University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family...
Seishun no Sabaki
Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a...
風雲児
The fourth installment of G-men of Japan
G-men of Japan 4: Special Armed Unit Mobilization
First film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 1 - Ghost Story at the Kagamigaike
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
Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.
Silence
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
Apostasy
Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.
The Spy
A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating...
Detective Duel
The 3rd Moonlight Mask movie from the 50s.
Moonlight Mask: Claws of Satan
Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
The Human Wall
In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a...
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Street of Violence
After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part...
Song of Farewell
Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband.
Demons
Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional.
Thirst for Love
Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963.
A Thousand Suspects
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
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to...
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming...
The Face
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his...
Sword of the Beast
Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.
The Black Cat
This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...
The Brick Factory Girl
A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to another. She dedicates herself to her...
Long Journey into Love
Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...
Victory of Women
G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.
G-Men in the Pacific
A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event...
Only She Knows
Fourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
Moonlight Mask: The Monster Gorilla
Samonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that says "stop it... zero plan! February." Learning that...
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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
Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in...
The Challenge
An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.
Men in a Rough Town
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure...
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.
Murder on The Last Train
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...
Stray Dog
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
Police Precinct
Police Precinct Part 2
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima...
Secret of Naruto
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
The Castle of Sand
Hell's Juggler
Police Precinct Part 5
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An...
Dancing Girls of Izu
A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...
Flame of My Love
Fukasaku and Chiba are back in a sequel filmed with the same cast and released just two weeks after the first film. This time the storyline is set in...
Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor
After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime...
Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
Police Precinct Part 7
Police Precinct Part 8
A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.
Across the Darkness
After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter...
Women's House
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...
Lucky Dragon No. 5
1953 Japanese movie
Ganpeki