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Princess Finds Her Prince
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
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
Ishimatsu of the Forest
1962 Japanese movie
South Pacific Waves Are High
The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.
Pineapple Butai
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
The Life of Rikisha-Man
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells...
Good Morning
From the late 1500's through the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate many battles were fought as the great warlords vied for power over the nation....
Lady Sen and Hideyori
The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
Street of Shame
湖愁
Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa
Wedding March
Zoku aizen katsura
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...
Bridge of Japan
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
Flower in a Storm
Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a...
Romance Express
The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
Popular guitarist Shunsuke Sugi had a busy schedule and lived a puppet life with manager Yoko Ohara. On the way home from the Tohoku tour, he rescued...
A Sky Full of Tears
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.
The President Talks Bank
A Man from Akagi
Ganko Oyaji to Edokko Shain
Swift Current
1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.
Onna keizu
A playboy bartender pretends to be gay in order to approach women. He is in cahoots with another opportunist, a young woman who is trying to seduce a...
Night Bitch
1950s Japanese comedy.
Third Class Executives
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...
Ôban
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Story of young love in the hills.
Beyond the Hills
A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
Hito mo arukeba
Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.
Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity,...
A Fugitive from the Past
The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...
Next Door to Happiness
The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
Toilet Manager
Pig and Goldfish
Ottamage ningyo monogatari
Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's...
Whistling in the morning
1959 Japanese movie
Keishichō monogatari gao no nai on'na
Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the...
Night Scandal in Japan
When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
Our Marriage
Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by...
Ofukuro
Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.
Nami kage
Ano hashi no hotori de
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently release from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build...
Girls of the Night
Pu Zhe , the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu Wen, marries Ryuko the daughter of a long-established aristocratic family - all in the...
The Wandering Princess
Kigeki ekimae onsen
Kyūjin ryokō
Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...
The Romance of Yushima
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...
Ejima and Ikushima
Women of Tokyo
The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.
喜劇 駅前飯店
Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
The Betrothed
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.
The President's Boss
That Cute Girl
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...
The Cast-Off
Ano hashi no hotori de dai 2-bu
直八子供旅
One Step to Happiness
Koko ni otoko ari
Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko Tsushima), the second was Tsugumi (Keiko Awaji),...
Sisters
Two high school girls, Ruri and Yumi, go to Kyoto on a school trip, here they get acquainted with Hinagiku, there are many adventures ahead of the...
So Young, So Bright
Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to...
When It Rains, It Pours
The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...
Spring Snow
Third film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka
Twenty-One Fingerprints
Avalanche
The Estuary
The middle of the Meiji period. Tororo Goro, a Nanjing expedition hit the first time to join the white thread at the water entertainer waterfall,...
滝の白糸
Curry Rice
A Roaring Trade
Wakai kisetsu
Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru....
Star of Hong Kong
Japan Beauty Story: A Woman Among Women
Naite waratta hanayome
Kodakara fūfu
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
The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other...
Kōfuku no genkai
A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos,...
Life's Simple Pleasures
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant...
Late Chrysanthemums
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Mother
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...
A Wife's Heart
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named...
Little Peach
An old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late autumn. Along the way, he visits a friend on his...
When Winter Comes
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
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
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
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Love Letter
In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend...
Women of the Night
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...
Broken Drum
Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small...
Firefly Light
Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.
Japanese film.
Santōshain to onna hisho
The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents, who despise Toki's family's geisha house...
Romance Freestyle
In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
The Life of Oharu
At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if manipulated by the mysterious voice,...
Ghosts Die at Dawn
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo.
Dare yori mo kimi o aisu
乾杯!女学生
Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...
Bellflower
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
Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).
Ichiyo Higuchi
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
Japanese comedy film.
Boss Takes to the Road
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
The Rose on His Arm
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to...
Zero Focus
Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
The Human Wall
Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions...
The Catch
In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student medical school newsletter and attempts to find a...
Bright Young Maidens
Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.
The Lovers
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.
Once a Rainy Day
裸足の青春
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
Mother Never Dies
A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha and the Girl of Osaka
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
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...
Dancing Girl
A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in...
The Foster Mother
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home...
A Story from Echigo
A comical love story between two college students — Hitomi, a strong-willed girl, and Shogo, a handsome, earnest and poverty stricken man.
No Advice Taken
Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual friend Yuriko (Mieko Takamine) is...
Dreaming People
Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
Victory Song
A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the...
Youth in Fury
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...
The Blue Sky Maiden
Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Thoroughbred Women Gamblers
Japanese drama film.
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in...
In Search of Mother
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
The Cock Crows Twice
Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period.
Nunnery Confidential
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Towering Waves
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.
Born in Sin
It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and...
Eddy Currents of Life
This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...
Souls in the Moonlight II
Master swordsman, Tsukue Ryunosuke is confronted by the families of his victims. Will justice be served for the lost innocent lives? The conclusion...
Souls in the Moonlight III
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much...
Whirlpool of Flesh
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
A seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple.
Love on the Rainbow
Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.
The Kii River
Japanese romantic comedy film.
The Adorable Trio
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...
Glory on the Summit
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the...
Wedding Day
A modern love story involving different affairs.
Someday I'll Know
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
Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the...
Horse
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
The Blue Revolution
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.
The Surf
My Brother, My Love
The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding...
Young Lovers
Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor...
Triangle Moods
A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.
Young Tree
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
Late Autumn
The Beauty Expert
A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.
The Naked General
This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to...
Sweet Sweat
An Ishiro Honda film.
Echo Mountain
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
Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...
A Pebble by the Wayside
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...
Untamed Woman
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...
Miniature
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job...
Mahiru no wana
She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that...
The Passionate Spinster
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...
Nippon no obaachan
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring...
Hero of the Red Light District
Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....
Dancers of Awa
Double Wedding
The Big Ambition
A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a...
The Rickshaw Man’s Son
A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
The White Orchid
Comedy around a motorman and a conductor of a streetcar.
The Street Car Game
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
Adolescence
Shanghai Rose
An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
Itsuko to sono haha
Forbidden Path
Storm on the Silvery Peaks
An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both...
Flower Cards Chivalry
Iroha Elegy
First of three Awamori-kun movies. Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi.
Awamori-kun uridasu
Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.
The Dangerous Kiss
Rose Buds in the Rainbow
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his...
Elegy
Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.
Hideko the Cheerleader
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...
Tokyo Sweetheart
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
Bad Reputation: Cherry Blossoms
Shot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their country to Japan in order to experience the latter...
Toyuki
Sôbô
Film about poet Ishikawa Takuboku
Passionate Poet Ishikawa Takuboku - Hometown
Mr. Lucky
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
Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.
Goblin Courier
First Love Questions and Answers
This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza.
Fearless Opposition
1959 youth comedy.
Ripe and Marriageable
Morning Whistling
Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a...
I'm a Bodyguard
Crazy Operation
In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister...
The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
Salaryman's Medal
As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geisha Hidekoma and Hidechiyo to entertain the...
Geisha Hidekoma
1950 Japanese movie
Guntō nanban-sen
Jiruba no Tetsu