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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
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes,...
Homecoming
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu"...
Tokyo Drifter
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
Branded to Kill
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in...
Zigeunerweisen
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with...
Mount Hakkoda
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
A semi-autobiographical film about a young man from Tokyo who moves to Hirosaki in the early Shōwa era. A straight-to-video production made for...
A Tale of Youth at Hirosaki High School
The Militarists
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employee, as she grows through work, love, and...
若い川の流れ
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is...
Safari 5000
University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family...
Seishun no Sabaki
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually,...
Fighting Elegy
A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity...
The Flower and the Angry Waves
The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was no end to the violence. The tramp Satoshi Tsuzuki...
Profit from Killing
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen....
Outlaw: Heartless
Japanese crime film.
Cobra 2
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the...
Story of a Prostitute
A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.
To Your Majesty, The Emperor
Japanese comedy film.
Nezumi Kozō kaitō den
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling...
Tokyo Bay
Komori Tiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day in training her coach hits the ball into her eye accidentally. She is taken to hospital...
The Visitor in the Eye
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
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
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow...
Shadow Hunters
Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.
Hazardous Graduation
Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.
Penitentiary Brothers
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo,...
Sweet Revenge
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant...
House of Terrors
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 tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the...
The Rough One
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.
Cross-Currents
The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of motorboat.
The Stars and I Decided...
Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in...
Take Me Away!
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful...
The Flower and the Sword
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
High school student Keiko struggles with the pressures of college entrance examinations and a chaotic home life, ultimately succumbing to alcohol,...
The Fall of Teenager
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence,...
Gate of Flesh
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
Kagero-za
Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and...
Utamaro's World
Zero Fighter
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...
Twice on a Certain Night
The Street Without Sun
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.
Kokoro no sanmyaku
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
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
Actress
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