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In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean....
Shogun and His Mistress 2
Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.
The Shop Curtain
1962 Japanese movie
次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is...
Equinox Flower
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...
The End of Summer
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find...
The Crucified Lovers
Till Tomorow Comes
Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and...
Sazae-san's Marriage
Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank...
Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.
Sazae's Engagement Trip
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip
Sazae And Aunt Apron
Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows...
The Woman in the Rumor
A biographical movie about Shinran
Shinran
During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After crushing almost all of his enemies, Date Masamune...
Hawk of the North
During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt...
Tsukigata Hanpeita
Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just...
The River Yokobori
The film takes place in a dark area of the giant city of Osaka and tells about a group of people who find themselves at the bottom of society, and...
Osaka Tough
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each...
Three Yakuza
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly...
Miyamoto Musashi
The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.
Flower Shop Curtain
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.
The Body
Ame no Kudan-zaka
Bunkichi disguises himself as a yakuza to solve a mysterious death.
Yakuza Official
Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.
Nami kage
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
The Garden of Women
Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its...
18 Roughs
The phantom thief, known as the "Actor Kid", who was creating a stir in the Daimyo's mansion, especially in the inner chambers, was called Inaba...
お役者小僧
During the Genroku era, Azusa Gennosuke, renowned in Nara as a top swordsman and a scholar, crossed swords with the Magistrate Kurobane Yatayu, who...
お役者変化
A foot soldier from Tottori domain named Shirai Gonpachi showcased exceptional swordsmanship that even surpassed the domain's champion Honjo...
濡れ髪権八
On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at...
快盗三人吉三
Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a relationship facilitated by his love of the shamisen....
八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
Two lone wolf yakuza (Hideki Takahashi and Kunie Tanaka) rob a gambling den, then split up when pursued by the angry gang. They eventually meet again...
Three Rogues
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.
Evening Calm
Sisters of Gion
紺屋高尾
Kunisada Chuji is a common folk hero who looks out for poor people in the country who are at the mercy of corrupt officials. Intent on fulfilling a...
Kunisada Chuji
Shin kitsune to tanuki
Shimizu Jirocho, the president, manages two businesses: Izumo Kanko-sha and the group inn "Daikokuya." There is a system where customers from Izumo...
次郎長社長と石松社員 安来ぶし道中
Hadaka no Machi
Jidaigeki by Tai Kato
The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the...
Throne of Blood
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
Sansho the Bailiff
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle...
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle, where Miyamoto continues on a mission...
Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters...
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is also killed. Then, a ghost cat begins stalking...
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con artists.
The Paper Crane
Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
Fifth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki
Sixth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Nitōhei monogatari: Banji yōryō no maki
Fourth installment in the "Achako's Notebook of Youth" series.
Achako's Notebook of Youth 4: Happy Marriage
Japanese comedy film.
Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...
Geisha in the Old City
The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is about to be purchased by a client, steals money from...
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
A frenzy of goodwill, tears, laughter, and a lot of fun, caused by thirteen children under the guise of a good-natured fruit vendor and his wife.
Otōsan wa Ohitoyoshi
The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives...
The Fencing Master
Modern sex and thrill film about tattooed prostitute.
Devil in My Flesh
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
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
A man’s wife dies in a swamp. Her ghost returns to haunt him.
The Swamp
A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take over a lucrative diamond mine business.
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved in a robbery of precious diamond.
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it...
An Osaka Story
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...
Sixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Woman Gambler Is Coming
Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
The Woman Gambler's Supplication
A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes from the mountains to the ocean defeating the...
Fine Man
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...
Room for Let
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
My Wife
浮かれ狐千本櫻
A young, feisty woman named Osome searches for her true love in the midst of a family crisis.
Gentle Breeze
Period romantic drama.
The Maiden Courtesan
Naomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange boy, Kirihito, under his wing. However, Naomasa is sent...
An Impudent Man
A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives.
Good Rascals
Japanese drama film.
A Circus Girl
Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is...
Chance Meeting
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
Price of Beauty
A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.
Lullaby for a Tough Guy
Based on a novel by Kôen Hasegawa
True Osaka Grit
A classic battle between good and evil pits an unscrupulous fortuneteller who has been preying on the good citizens of Edo against a master-less...
Evil Man of Edo
Kind hearted yakuza Hanjiro of Asama risks his life in saving his henchman Genjiro and his family.
Her Son Came Back
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the...
City of Love
The Harbor Lights
An Ishiro Honda film.
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight....
This Year's Love
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...
Twenty-Four Eyes
A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators. This is...
Ghost of Saga Mansion
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...
Women in Prison
A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father
The Third Will
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
Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse certain...
A Geisha
Tainted Flowers
On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first...
On Wings of Love
In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night,...
Sound in the Mist
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of...
Temptation on Glamour Island
Bad Reputation Returns
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...
Marital Relations
In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins...
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Zangiku monogatari
A young man steals money for a cabaret singer.
The Sentimental Idiot
Violence
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
1961 Japanese movie
Zokuzoku bantōhan to detchidon
The Preacher of Love
Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō