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Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...
Kwaidan
1962 Japanese movie
Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
The Chase after Opium Dealers
Hunting Opium-Eaters
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
After a mine collapses and leaves her husband employed, Fumiko moves to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko and becomes a hostess.
Strong Women, Weak Men
Mirai ni tsunagaru ko ra
Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for,...
Inugami
Main Street in the Underworld
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
Tora! Tora! Tora!
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai....
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
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
Set in the Kyushu area of the Edo period. This is a large-length bizarre story that incorporates elements such as mysteries and adventures...
The Tale of Saikaido
1959 Japanese movie
Keishichō monogatari 108 gōsha
Japanese drama.
Mount Hakone
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
Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their...
The Petrified Forest
This film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of Military Affairs, about the beginning of the incident 2.26...
Homicide
A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.
Night of Sorrow
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
Crime film released in 1969
The Resurrection of the Beast
The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.
Battle Anthem
Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"
The Forest Is Alive
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...
Ballad of a Workman
Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.
Scrap Collectors
Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.
Pursuit
Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching...
Professional Killers
Pure love story
River of Forever
The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be...
Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71
Also known as "History of a Man’s Face" and "By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him" . Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their...
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
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
First film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 1 - Ghost Story at the Kagamigaike
Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead...
The Bored Samurai
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes...
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in...
A Trap
It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the...
The War Without Weapons
Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.
The Spy
Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war...
Immortal Love
Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs...
Danger Pays
Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real...
Blood-Red Water in the Channel
Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional.
Thirst for Love
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and...
The Betrayers Out!
A bittersweet love story between yakuza Hiroshi and a married woman Reiko.
Love at the Fogged Harbor
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
Graveyard of Honor
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for...
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts....
Blackmail Is My Life
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of...
Village of Eight Gravestones
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
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
An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.
Men in a Rough Town
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the...
The X from Outer Space
Japanese action film set in Arabia.
The Storm over Arabia
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...
The River Fuefuki
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
Three years had passed since Ichiro Takeo left Japan. He was a young physician with a promising future, until his medical error caused the death of a...
Rainbow Over Kinmon
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of...
Port Arthur
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.
Company Buggers
The Story of the three Japanese castaways Otokichi, Kyukichi and Iwakichi. After their ship the Hojunmaru was damaged, they drifted to America and...
Adrift at Sea
Legendary detective returns
Tarao Bannai
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship...
The Imperial Navy
The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family...
The Love of the Actress Sumako
By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under the...
The Pirates of Buban
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
Vengeance Is Mine
Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.
Human Revolution II
A Woman's Life
One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths....
The Empty Table
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
The last judgment.
The Last Judgment
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...
Japan's Longest Day
Shihomi Etsuko plays a race car driver who also lends out her services to the Japanese Secret Service. Although there really isn't much of a "chase"...
The Great Chase
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
Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after another. It seems obvious that it is a former partner of...
Song of Vengeance
After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional...
Why Are We Young?