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After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt...
The Whisper of Spring
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
Till Tomorow Comes
A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi...
Dolls floating down the river
Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda
Four Seasons of Women
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works...
The Soundless Cry
Only Child
Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Women Doing Time
Love for Eternity
Based on an autobiographical novel by Toshiko Takagi, set close to the end of World War II
Tokyo Air Raid Glass Rabbit
A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.
Bitterness of Youth
If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the...
If You Were Young: Rage
Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her...
An Ode to Yakuza
Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few other players. When he's released in...
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny
1950s Japanese comedy.
Third Class Executives
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
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...
Red Beard
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...
Dodes'ka-den
TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.
The Rokumeikan
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
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
1977 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume Soseki's novel.
Botchan
Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a...
Raised in a Palace
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
Human Torpedoes
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight...
The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji...
The Last Kamikaze
Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair...
Rebellion of Japan
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...
Spring Dreams
The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely.
The Class of the Sewage Canal
Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.
The Tattered Banner
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part...
Song of Farewell
Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.
Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
Dances of Flame
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and...
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...
The River Fuefuki
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.
Structure of Hate
Japanese drama film.
Wings of Love
Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult....
The Second Love
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...
An Inlet of Muddy Water
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his...
The Navy
The President's Son
Sweet Seventeen
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...
The Story of Pure Love
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...
Happiness of Us Alone
Shanghai Rose
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
My Voiceless Friends
1948 Japanese drama film.
A Second Life
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of...
Tomorrow
Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.
Tales of the Inner Chamber
Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left....
Yume-Chiyo
City
Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Chained Bitch