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It was the first time in six years that I was able to step on the land of my homeland, the land of my nostalgia. It was Tokyo that had turned to...
The Fourth Lady
Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon...
Godzilla Raids Again
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...
Ikiru
Tadashi Imai 1946 movie
An Enemy of the People
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
Sansho the Bailiff
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...
Turbid youth
Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...
Striving to Live
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...
I Live in Fear
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...
Sanjuro
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences...
The 47 Ronin
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to...
Drunken Angel
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
Scandal
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by...
High and Low
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...
Reminiscence
Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But...
The Wild Sea
1962 Japanese movie
君恋し
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
Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...
No Regrets for Our Youth
Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
Romantic melodrama
Stolen Love
Sekidô matsuri
Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura
Farewell to Spring
A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Duel in the Sun
Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have...
One Wonderful Sunday
A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.
The Stand in Hakone
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a...
Rusty Knife
The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases,...
White Beast
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...
Children of Hiroshima
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Break Down that Wall
Comedy-drama about university tennis players.
Pomegranate Time
Director Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks...
Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by...
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.
Forbidden Lips
Kojiki taishō
On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her...
Wakai toppū
A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)
Ah, My Hometown
Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
Who's The Real Killer
The Militarists
1954 Theater of Life adaptation.
Jinsei Gekijo Yokubo hen: sanshu kirako
A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.
The Straits of Love and Hate
Rebecca an incredibly successful image "upgrader" who specializes in bringing out the best version of one's self, is faced with her most formidable...
Little Snack
Yoru no keisha
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into...
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then...
The Wild Reporter
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He...
Samurai Banners
It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a...
Judge and Jeopardy
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and...
Battle of the Japan Sea
After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.
人生とんぼ返り
Hanran
Yukiko
Four henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They divide 1.2 million yen from Ryu's bag into 4 parts...
Shadow of intimidation
愛情の旋風
Hageshī kawa
Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary
Jūdai no kawa
The film depicts the life of a high school student today, touching on issues of purity, sports, higher education, and employment, through the pursuit...
Confession of a girl: Purity
A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.
A Samurai's Love
Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry...
限りなき情熱
Namari o buchikome
The Bridal Night Again
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
Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.
The Elder Sister
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...
Wife
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love...
Gate of Hell
A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and...
Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...
The Sands of Kurobe
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...
The Eagle of the Pacific
1958 Newspaper Association Sweepstakes Winning Broadcast Drama Movie. A heartwarming and moving story that bloomed behind the competition between...
JA750 Gōki Yukuefumei
Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was...
Foul Play
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...
The Great White Tower
Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.
Traitors of the Blue Castle
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...
The Wolves
Japanese mystery film directed by Michiyoshi Doi.
Shitto
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
Apostasy
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...
How Sorrowful
Japanese film.
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....
Once More
Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish...
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Before Dawn
Japanese drama film.
Kanshō fujin
At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.
Military Song of the Morning Mist
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...
The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...
The Ball at the Anjo House
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
Stakeout
Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic...
No Time for Tears
The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often...
Season of the Sun
A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless slum. He is shocked to learn that his younger...
Savage Wolf Pack
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
Mother Never Dies
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...
Beyond the Green Hills
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko...
Story of a Beloved Wife
Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji...
Keep Your Chin Up
Japanese crime film.
Rajo to satsujin-meiro
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a...
The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart
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
A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.
Summer Storm
This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...
Young Swordsman
Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but...
A Hole of My Own Making
Bouquet of the South Seas
Wings of Victory
Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic...
Welcome, My Baby
Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in...
Those Who Make Tomorrow
Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by...
Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy...
The Night before Pearl Harbor
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi...
Kojiro
A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.
Tiger of the Sea
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Japanese suspense film.
Face in the Dark
Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.
Patterns of Love
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
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he...
Love in Ginza
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
Dawn of a Canvas
Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very...
Four Young Sisters
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
Wakai musumetachi
The Den of Beasts
A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding...
The Snow Woman
A Fool's Love
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 small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.
This Happy Life
Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed...
The Young and Bad
An Ishiro Honda film.
Mother and Son
One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering...
The Swan Elegy
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
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
Youth of the Beast
Film from 1967.
Burning Nature
Song of my Life
Shiawase wa doko ni
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s...
The Champion
Children of Izu
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....
That Guy and I
On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest...
The Sound of Waves
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...
Mother Country
A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
The White Orchid
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese...
Admiral Yamamoto
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
Adolescence
The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam construction site in what is now Hanamaki City,...
Swift Current
Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that...
Sunflower Girl
The Street Without Sun
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals...
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received...
Crimson Wings
Kanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty...
On This Earth
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...
The Guitarist and the Rancher
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
Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted with the destruction, but he was a...
Lone Rebel
University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutical company with a dark past, slowly but surely...
City of Beasts
Shunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging house girl who is in love with him and in the midst...
Karate Sanshiro
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 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
Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Lord for a Night
One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.
A Woman's Life
The Gambling Samurai
A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that...
Shojohou
Fossil of Love
A drama about the sex industry.
Let's Dance Tonight
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
The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.
Muhō Ichidai
A pure love melodrama movie.
The Echo of Love
風雲金毘羅山
Konna onna ni dare ga shita
Trigger Happy
Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends, he hides his identity and saves his girlfriend's...
Gambling is My Destiny