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Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and...
Wild Spirit
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
Early Spring
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of...
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young...
Pale Flower
War film by Kon Ichikawa
Bengawan Solo
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...
47 Ronin
A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Duel in the Sun
Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda
Four Seasons of Women
In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on Earth, using rays to manipulate gravity and...
Battle in Outer Space
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is...
Gorath
1962 Japanese movie
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
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
Irezumi
When a priceless jewel owned by rich heiress Sabine is stolen, along with her daughter, Professional thief and hired killer Ryuichi Koga and his gang...
The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...
Yaji and Kita on the Road
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...
The Blue Mountains: Part I
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
Station
Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few other players. When he's released in...
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny
Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken...
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
Out of the blue, a bourgeois family on the Sea of Japan finds an unconscious woman on the beach and decides to let her board.
Before Spring
The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
Toilet Manager
Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...
Green Earth
Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.
Four Love Stories
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.
The Legend of the White Serpent
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.
Evening Calm
The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the...
The War in Space
Secret Love
A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is...
Modern People
Part one of The Masterless 47.
The Masterless 47
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes...
A Holiday in Tokyo
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
Sky Scraper!
This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...
Pursuit At Dawn
Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuchi Kog, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro Sakura work...
The Executioner
Hadaka no Machi
A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls...
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
Ken's older sister Yoko, who has raised Ken like a mother, decides to move to Brazil with an older man.
Someday, Somewhere
The Blue Mountains '88
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by...
Brutal Tales of Chivalry
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...
The Battle of Okinawa
A story of lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: Forbidden Love
Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.
Prison Boss
The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of...
Lost in the Wilderness
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight...
The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
Human Torpedoes
The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.
The Vampire Moth
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
Apostasy
1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Bot-chan
Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.
Beyond the Hills
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Japanese mystery thriller.
Late Night Confession
A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the...
Tokyo Profile
Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision...
The End of the Night
In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an...
Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.
Army Intelligence
Japanese noir.
Rinchi
Siege of Fort Bismarck
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
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated...
Father of the Kamikaze
This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 6
The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of drug dealers tries to force the pair to...
Man Against Man
A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his...
Beyond Love and Hate
Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.
The Blue Mountains: Part II
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have...
Farewell Rabaul
The karashi Botan returns in the third chapter of the incredible Showa Zankoden series. This time legendary actor Ken Takakura plays Takei Shigejiro...
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Lone Wolf
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the...
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
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
Koibito
A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo...
Gambler's Legacy
Period romantic drama.
The Maiden Courtesan
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...
The Blue Pearl
Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself...
Winter's Flower
Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown.
Choji Snack Bar
"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." ...
Beast Alley
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.
Structure of Hate
After being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to saving the Kajima’s lucrative lumber business.
Showdown of Men 3
A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother.
Nerves for Victory
A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.
Lullaby for a Tough Guy
Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfriend's married another man. It's payback time.
A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in...
The Storm of the Pacific
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...
The Radish and the Carrot
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 screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Kaei
Wakôdo no uta
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at...
The Lone Journey
Wakai musumetachi
An Ishiro Honda film.
Lovetide
Echo Mountain
A double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real estate companies. A prosecutor who senses a setup...
Ana
Burning Clouds
Legendary detective returns
Tarao Bannai
Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family.
Three Gamblers
Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love...
Escape at Dawn
A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
The White Orchid
A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.
Swords and Brocade
1958 Theater of Life adaptation.
Theater of Life
Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman at the mercy of war. Wataru is entrusted by his...
君死に給うことなかれ
Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
No Response from Car 33
Forbidden Path
Adapted by Yasumi Toshio and directed by Toyoda Shiro, this is a literary work based on a full-length novel of the same name published by Shiga Naoya...
Pilgrimage at Night
Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history...
The Yoshida School
Terajima, an ex-yakuza and current nightclub owner, is brought back into the world of crime when his former brother attempts a hostile take over.
Japan's Violent Gangs: Degenerate Boss
Dagger
Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!
The Audition
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student...
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.
The Beloved Image
Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a university professor, collapsed. Michihara, a...
The Wind Blows Twice
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer...
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns.
War and Peace
That Night's Adventure
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...
Sky of Hope
"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to Japan to visit her mother, but can't find her, so she...
Koi no rantō
Japanese crime film
Red Sword Sheath: Code Of Honour: Recieving Orders
A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
Hikage-Mono
A troubled architect weaves his way through numerous romantic situations in a search for true love and contentment.
Flakes of Snow