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A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.
The Sun
1962 Japanese movie
Angel and the Outlaw
Travel into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful and mysterious new apartment manager; Yusaku,...
Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy
Kimagure tosei
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful...
Alone Across the Pacific
Black Dice
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
A Colt Is My Passport
A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote...
I Hate But Love
A coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama.
I Love The Sun
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
I Am Waiting
Takanezawa, a young head of the Yokohama Kibe group, confronts the Kansai organization that forces the transfer of Shima with the debt of the...
Heisei Zankeiden: Gaido is Killed!
Seven years have passed since the incident of the previous work. Yakuza Seiji, who was called a "Bodhisattva" and was afraid of being a "Yaksha" if...
Heisei Gokudoden Yasha Tears!
零戦黒雲一家
Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.
Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.
Carlos
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks...
The Man Who Stole the Sun
Facing to the Clouds
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking,...
Intimidation
A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the...
The Warped Ones
A unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for a family that abandoned their home at the bottom of...
Yami wo saku kuchibue
Wakai tsume ato
At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local...
Lost Love
After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.
Modern Children
The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening credits...
Girl in the Glass
Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's, Atsugi Shizuka, body shape. Because of that...
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Hitori tabi
A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.
Streetlights
Takeshi Nanjo, a junior lieutenant in the navy whose father, the head of the Nanjo-gumi yakuza family, was killed, is forced to leave the army and...
Second Generation Young Boss
Sixteen Years Old: Nymphets' Room
A family murder case that occurred in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. A murderer whose statute of limitations is about to expire is shown on TV, and...
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
The fourth head of the Masashimizu group suddenly died. It was good until his adopted son Haruhiko Ayanokoji, a lawyer, succeeded him, but the gang...
Yakuza Lawyer Haruhiko Ayanokoji
After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.
Dorei kōjō
A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.
Karate Cop
A crime film released in 1962
Song of a Traveller
A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki,...
The Scarred Angel
Four criminals break into the home of a jewelry merchant, Sanpodo, rob the diamonds, and escape. However, one of them receives a bullet during a...
The Night is mine
A young virgin is captured by an abnormal couple. The girl is kept locked in a wooden box, and subjected to sexual torture and abuse. Loosely...
Woman in a Box: Virgin Sacrifice
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
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...
Madadayo
The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.
Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers
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
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
Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but...
Nowhere Man
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
Dead Angle
University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has...
Memories of You
After two thugs are killed, Dobu and his crew have three days to catch the murderers. Dobu suspects a hidden mastermind influencing the magistrate.
Private Detective DOBU 5: The Pinwheel Murder Case
Released after seven years in prison, an inveterate thug goes from strength to ruthless strength as he makes his way through a succession of dubious...
No More God, No More Love
1980 Japanese film distributed by Shochiku.
Strike the White Ball
1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.
The Skies of Haruo
First live action adaptation of Keiji Nakazawa's manga.
Barefoot Gen
On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large...
The Long Death
Itto Ogami- High Executioner to the Shogun- has been betrayed by his political enemies and sentenced to a dishonorable death. Seeking to restore the...
The Fugitive Samurai
Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs...
Danger Pays
Tadao decides to comes back from Tokyo to live in his home town, in the countryside. He stays at his parents place and finds a job, repairing...
At Noon
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were...
Harbor Rats
A heated argument between middle school thugs leads to a fierce war between two rival high schools when Toru's girlfriend, Shoko, gets involved.
Be-Bop Highschool: The Power
A sly prep school thug uses his girlfriend to lure Hiroshi and Toru to a fight, but the scheme escalates to an all-out war between everyone involved.
Be-Bop High School: A Delinquent Student March
Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another.
The Gentlemen’s Alliance
The third movie in Tôru Murakawa's Game trilogy about a hitman. Narumi is set up by a mysterious woman. Abducted and tortured, Narumi is forced...
The Execution Game
The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes...
The Killing Game
Two killers revenge a wirepuller of the underworld in Yokohama.
Target
A young girl is striving for stardom. In order to get a lead role in a new production, she agrees to stand-in for a famous star whose rich patron...
The Tragedy of “W”
The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father.
The Days of No Return
A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to...
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
Three people whose lives have taken a turn for the worse retreat into a world of erotic dreams made flesh in this drama from director Sai Yoichi. An...
Sexual Crime
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
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's...
Cruel Gun Story
After serving time for bank fraud, Kiriko now lives a quiet life as a taxi driver working night shifts... but her peace is shattered by a relentless...
Stranger
Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.
Darkness at Noon
While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a...
Woman from the Sea
The 8th All-Japan Road Race Championship. The internationally ranked A-level SUGO circuit is on the edge of its seat as the 500 cc final draws near. ...
The Last Hero
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is...
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
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
Teen thugs Hiroshi and Toru get caught in a street war when their prized school trousers are forcefully taken from them by punks from a rival school.
Be-Bop High School 2
When beautiful forensic scientist Kyoko and her colleagues fail to uncover clues to the identity of a man who brutally attacks and kills women, she...
XX: Beautiful Target
Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on...
Farewell to the Land
Hanamura, widely known in gangland a professional trouble shooter has the sign of the Jack tattooed on his chest. His follower is his sworn partner...
Sign of the Jack
A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the...
The Beast to Die
Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV...
Lowly Ronin
A stripper reluctantly returns to her manager and husband with her new lover in tow. The lover tries to claim her but after escaping a beating he...
Woman's Trail: Wet Path
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After...
Zatoichi Challenged
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially...
Night Drum
An accidental shooting on the job and a recent divorce take a toll on the personal and professional life of a Japanese detective. Just as it seems he...
Break Out
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
Popular Japanese Group Sounds band, The Spiders, star in their second movie, a "HELP!" inspired rock n roll spy movie!
The Spiders' The Noisy Parade
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by...
Wait for Tomorrow
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.
The Highest Honour
A young reporter is covering the mysterious case of a child found dead with missing internal organs.
The Vanished
Upon rescuing a friend who is being held captive by a wicked classmate and his gang of bullies, 11-year-olds Tetsushi, Yuusuke, and Ryoji...
Jigokudo Spiritual Press
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...
An Ocean to Cross
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first...
Appassionata
She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that...
The Passionate Spinster
The Front Line Showdown
The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a...
Disciples of Hippocrates
A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't...
Playtime Never Ends
A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career.
The Hidden Trail of the Beasts
Film distributed by ATG.
Fighting Against The Incurable Disease Aplastic Anemia – Now You Are In The Light
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal...
Akitsu Hot Springs
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya...
Nomugi Pass
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and...
Willful Murder
Shinku is a compelling drama that focuses on the strange relationship that develops between two people who find their lives irrevocably changed as a...
The Deep Red
Isseki Nicho
The Gambler
Hunting master Ginzo kills a man-eating bear. When he finds out the bear had a cub, Ginzo decides to raise the cub, but the bear later becomes a...
The Forest of the Little Bear
14th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
Woman Gambling Expert: Odd/Even Gambling Trip
Hisayoshi, who was known as "Matahisa" and was a famous bondage artist in the Kansai region, is now a pimp for Mary of Snake Show and does massage....
Snake and Lady Slave
A film about a juvenile delinquent who swears, yet fails, to rehabilitate.
Juvenile Delinquent: Shout of the Rising Sun