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1959 Japanese movie
Zattō ni hikarume
The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese...
The Summit of Mt. Fuji
Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm.
Kemono no iru gai
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
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.
Crazed Fruit
Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie
Hana to ryu
End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of the yakuza families of Kanhasshu (eight Kanto...
Chivalrous Man: Junkyard of Life
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.
Death of a Tea Master
1962 Japanese movie
Angel and the Outlaw
Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daughter, Yoriko: the sole survival of a bloodbath for...
Never Give Up
This is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji, nicknamed "The Rising Dragon", who swore never to take...
Chivalry Broken from All Sides
The Tale of Genji
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
Tokugawa Ieyasu's Secret Treasure
Machi ga nemuru toki
A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.
Cell No. 8
Seinen no isu
The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a...
My Second Brother
Confession
A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
Take Aim at the Police Van
East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the...
Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon...
Red Angel
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo,...
Spring Bell
零戦黒雲一家
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Break Down that Wall
A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth of the Imperial Navy's gold, team up to salvage...
Golden Partners
Japanese drama film.
Such is Life
1950s Japanese drama.
Cape Ashizuri
At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away...
The Day of Youth
It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and...
Sun and stars
Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through...
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Jūdan no arashi
A 1960 crime film
The Cards Will Tell
A 1961 crime film.
Whistling in the Darkness
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An...
Dancing Girls of Izu
Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for...
Lullaby of Death
Released in the UK as Hotbed of Crime
Hotbed of Crime
帰ってきた旋風児
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.
The Setting Sun
A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as the conflict between the yakuza intensifies.
Wolves of the Night
In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendship, suddenly hated each other and face many...
Punishment of a Lawless Villian
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment...
Everything Goes Wrong
The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he...
Underworld Beauty
In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the police about the source of funds for the Daido...
Chivalrous Life
A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only...
Red Handkerchief
A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in...
Passport to Darkness
When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive...
The Sleeping Beast Within
A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer....
Glowing Autumn
TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.
The Rokumeikan
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new...
Blood Type: Blue
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
Set in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who returns from evacuation. The film is based on the novel...
Sea of Wandering
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his...
Stray Dog
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
Genichiro Okugawa is appointed as the head of accounting in a feudal domain and travels with his servant Gonsuke to the country from Edo. Along the...
Countryside Accountant's Government Reform
A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
Woman of the Lake
The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...
The Ghost of Iwojima
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.
Cry for Sorrow
The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to...
Autumn Interlude
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
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during...
Endless Desire
Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case...
Call from Darkness
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
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
A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
Company Executives
An action masterpiece about Might Guy Akira, a hot-blooded man who explodes against the backdrop of a large landfill full of intrigue and violence.
Dynamite ni Hi o Tsukero
A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual...
Satan's Town
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his...
Voice Without a Shadow
A poignant entertainment epic about a righteous mountain man, a young company director with new ideals, and a beautiful woman with wild charm, whose...
Mehyō to Narazu Mono
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 body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old...
The Incident
Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional.
Thirst for Love
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the...
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several...
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the...
Love and Death
Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by...
Oishinbo
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the...
Shogun's Samurai
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the...
The Fall of Ako Castle
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.
Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.
Darkness at Noon
Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963.
A Thousand Suspects
1884. The samurai days have come to an end. Capitalism and democracy flourished across Japan. But in Chichibu, an area just north of Tokyo, samurai...
Killer Sword
Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.
Kikenna onna
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
Lost in the Sun
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a...
A Taxing Woman
Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that...
A Killer Without a Grave
Death stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to a justice of their own choice. The motives are...
Skyscraper Murder Case
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.
The Shadow Within
A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
The Flesh Is Weak
The Human Cyclone
Windy Street
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the...
Tales of Ginza
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
Song of my Life
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...
Burden of Love
Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out...
Shichinin no keiji
Children of Izu
An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful...
Shutsugeki
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
Actress
Also Known As: Abashiri Native Ground
Abashiri Prison
A former stockbroker-turned-yakuza must make sure his alcoholic boss is up to the task of swearing in the next leader of their syndicate.
Succession
Ai Sureba Koso
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means...
Sugata Sanshiro
The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the American troops began landing on the Saipan island. On...
The Last Women
Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history...
The Yoshida School
The Human Revolution
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
The Gambling Samurai
Farewell to the Code
Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".
Rambling in the Sea
The Sky Is Mine
Hana no fushicho
The first directorial work of Kazuhiko Murakami, a master of gangster comics. Yano-gumi Wakato and Kito Kiyoji, whose leader was shot dead, boarded...
日本暴力地帯
Lone Wolf
A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is...
Modern People
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
The Incorrigible
Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children.
The Story of Jiro
A suspense drama directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi. Students, gangsters and other young people who couldn't make money were gathering and negotiating at a...
Mahiru no yuugai
Based on novel 1962 "Kyukei no Koya" by Seicho Matsumoto. A serial murder occurs around the heroine Kumiko because she finds evidence that her...
Kyukei no Koya
A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's...
Covered Wagon
A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the...
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
This is the second installment in the Shichinin no Keiji police procedural series.
七人の刑事 女を探がせ
Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night and, finding himself in front of the boss of the...
Merciless Bullet