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Musume no boken
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
An Actor's Revenge
Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts...
Irezumi
With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a...
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
Street of Shame
After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in...
Victory and Defeat
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
Meiso chizu
On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...
Afraid to Die
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
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake...
Floating Weeds
The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.
Manji
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted...
The Great Wall
Two poor, married farmers have recently lost their only child; after a freak visitation, they pry open an alien cocoon to greet their new daughter.
Princess from the Moon
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
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly...
A Lustful Man
Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a...
Blood End
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover...
Elegant Beast
Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a...
A Wife Confesses
On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of...
Seisaku's Wife
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
[Period covered: 1614-1615] 4th film in the shinobi no mono series Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be...
Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege
TV movie based on the novel "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu, which tells about the life of Prince Hikaru Genji, who was nicknamed "Shining"...
The Tale of Genji
[Period covered: 1595-1600] Third film in the famous shinobi no mono series. We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizo Ichikawa), as he was about to...
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.
The Phantom Horse
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his...
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.
Evening Calm
A biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside her mentor (Kyo Machiko) on her way...
The Ladder of Success
Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.
Jirocho Fuji
Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
The Betrothed
Once upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken father. One day after they disguised themselves as...
Enchanted Princess
Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.
幻の殺意
1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.
Shroud of Snow
Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom...
A Rainbow at Every Turn
Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her...
The Priest and the Beauty
A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
The False Student
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...
The Blue Sky Maiden
Namiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her husband’s company by greenmail.
Love and Greed
The middle of the Meiji period. Tororo Goro, a Nanjing expedition hit the first time to join the white thread at the water entertainer waterfall,...
滝の白糸
Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two...
Spring Snow
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...
Bridge of Japan
A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this...
浅草の夜
The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.
A Public Benefactor
While Yet a Wife
Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.
Punishment Room
A Certain Woman
In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara, a player who got angry at the indecisive judge,...
Suparuta Kyouiku Kutabare Oyaji
Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.
Shi no machi wo nogarete
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The...
Two Wives
Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women...
Stolen Pleasure
On his return from school, young Ichiro finds his father in bed with his adopted sister, Namie. Enraged, he decides to outdo his father in terms of...
The House of Wooden Blocks
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...
The Temple of Wild Geese
Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.
When the Cookie Crumbles
Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have...
A Night to Remember
The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who...
A Grain of Wheat
It depicts a few days in the life of a farmer's wife who takes her first vacation in Tokyo.
Onna no Kyūka
Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small...
Firefly Light
"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems...
The Time of Reckoning
It depicts the emotional ups and downs of a designer who runs a clothing store and her husband over the course of a summer.
Onna no Natsu
Yano Reiko is a part-time student. After being introduced by a well-known classmate, she becomes the tutor for Mariko, the second daughter of the...
Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree
A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The...
Izakaya Moheji 2
Izakaya Moheji 4
The drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with his work.
Onna no Katei
Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still...
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
This unique melodrama depicts the anguish of a new wife whose husband confesses to her his infertility on their wedding night. The virgin wife, who...
Modae
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.
The Forest of No Escape
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...
Bonchi
A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.
Farewell Song
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...
A Woman's Testament
Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. He believes of her...
The Freezing Point
The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata...
Thousand Cranes
Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord...
The Saga of Tanegashima
A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just...
A Geisha's Diary
In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
A story of aristocratic star-crossed love.
Love of the Princess
Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.
The Messenger from the Moon
A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of...
The Virgin Witness
Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new...
The Radiant Prince
A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.
Vagabonds from Badgerville
Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete...
Marriageable Age
Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa
Goodbye, Hello
The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have...
The Ginza Three Boys
Girls Born in August
A Yasuzō Masumura film about a love affair starring Ayako Wakao. The literal title is The Two Who Got Wet.
One Day at Summer's End
Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor...
Triangle Moods
Lady Chatterley of Japan
A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against...
Les Mesdemoiselles
Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a...
She Came For Love
A suspense directed by Umetsugu Inoue, starring Ayako Wakao, depicting the intense lust created by the passion of a writhing woman.
Bury Me Deep
The Rockabilly Lady
In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.
Beauty the Enemy
A light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.
Hot Spring Doctress
Closing Time
Red Love, Green Love
母子鶴
In the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to break all ties with their previous lives and form the...
The Most Valuable Wife
Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his...
Their Legacy
A young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his conquests is of a different mind however. For she is...
Strange Triangle
A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.
Tears
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
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as...
A Design for Dying
Otama, daughter of a poor candy vendor, becomes the mistress of a man whom she believes to be a widower and owner of a prosperous dry goods store....
Wild Geese
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...
The Cast-Off
Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.
Zoku jūdai no seiten
Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako
Jūdai no yūwaku
Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako
Jûdai no seiten
Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako
続々十代の性典
A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.
Nami kage
During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the...
Tsukigata Hanpeita
The Gaijin
The wife Yuko Kusumon operating a pottery store was a chastal wife without complaints even though her husband is cheated with her heart. Koji Umeya,...
The Frolic of the Beasts
At sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage therapist. One day, stumbling on a staircase, he meets a...
The Story of a Blind Woman
1959 youth comedy.
Ripe and Marriageable
A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the...
Tokyo Eyes
Love River
Mother
When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his...
The Judo Champ
A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.
Daiei Studio is Bustling
Through the relationship between a woman who has lost her husband and her brother-in-law who proposes to her, the complexity of the female psyche and...
Tokimeki no Gogo
Shojo jutai
"Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to...
I'll Cry Alone