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In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who...
The Hidden Fortress
Romantic and Crazy
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...
Ikiru
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...
I Live in Fear
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...
Sanjuro
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...
The Bad Sleep Well
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...
Yojimbo
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that...
The Lower Depths
A former comic is on the run from the mob.
Mickey One
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by...
High and Low
A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
A Woman's Life
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three...
The Funeral
Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank...
Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
Sazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's parents' home, the Isono family. However, the...
Sazae-san's Newlywed Family
Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and...
Sazae-san's Marriage
A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
Forty-Eight Man
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip
Sazae And Aunt Apron
Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki
When We Came Back
Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda
Four Seasons of Women
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....
Double Suicide
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries....
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
1951 Japanese movie
Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse....
The Sword of Doom
An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who...
Ayako
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya...
The Blossom and the Sword
Mako Osorubeshi
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
Tokyo Twilight
Director Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks...
Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.
Sazae-san Plays Cupid
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from...
Three Outlaw Samurai
Story of young love in the hills.
Beyond the Hills
The Gift of the Fox
The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.
Sir Galahad in Campus
A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts...
The Man Who Waited
In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...
Different Sons
This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.
Travelling Actors
1962 Japanese movie
Josei jishin
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...
Samurai Saga
A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels...
Tojuro's Love
Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and...
The Actress and the Poet
1963 Japanese movie
Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played...
Man of the House
The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of...
The Road I Travel with You
1961 Japanese movie
Sararīman yajikita dōchū
Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other.
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Hide-chan (Hideko Takamine) and her family are on a trip to Tokyo. While visiting a fairground, a pickpocket (Kamatari Furukawa) steals the father's...
The Kingdom of Spectacles
9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.
A Gentle Breeze With Father
In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka...
The Homely Sister
As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, began to spread, he was summoned by...
武蔵と小次郎
Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young Guy returns to the swim team from the first movie, ...
Young Guy at Sea
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
Invisible Man
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
A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.
Dorobō Sodachi Dorobōi
All is Well
Easy Alley
Directed by Daisuke Ito.
Kokusai Mitsuyudan
A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections
Murahachibu
Keshô yuki
Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habits such as stealing. Despite these flaws, she...
Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
1949 drama film
Kaze no ko
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...
Sasaki Kojiro
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.
Third Generation Boss
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
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...
(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
Japanese drama.
Mount Hakone
A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsukunamiya. Officer Kasajiro Sakane investigates the...
Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the...
Five Men in a Circus
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
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...
Kagemusha
A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but...
The Girl in the Rumor
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of...
The Sun's Burial
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...
Wife
An inspirational teacher is the focus of this Japanese drama. After his friend kills himself, Natsuki takes a teaching job on an isolated island. His...
Eyes, the Sea and a Ball
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...
The Battle of Okinawa
1945 Japanese movie
東海水滸伝
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...
The Blue Mountains: Part I
Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs...
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in...
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...
Hideko the Bus Conductress
Umi o yobu koe
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka...
An Inn at Osaka
An old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late autumn. Along the way, he visits a friend on his...
When Winter Comes
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning...
A Carpenter and Children
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...
The Day the Sun Rose
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them...
The Munekata Sisters
The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.
The Portrait
A 1981 TV movie based on a short story by Kuniko Mukoda, starring Kaori Momoi and Jinpachi Nezu. A housewife is slowly tempted by a mysterious man...
The Woman Next Door
First live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.
Barefoot Gen: Explosion of Tears
Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
I Am a Cat
1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Botchan
For Love and Money
Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision...
The End of the Night
A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...
Okuni and Gohei
Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)
Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
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
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
Mr. Pu
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Husband and Wife
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
Mother Never Dies
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...
The Ditch
Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the clan and sets off on a journey that leads him...
Duel of Blood and Sand
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery...
The Approach of Autumn
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
The Unbalanced Wheel
Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.
Light of Africa
Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru...
Time Within Memory
A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
The Sunshine Girl
Pinku from 1971.
Wolves of the City: First to Fight
Period romantic drama.
The Maiden Courtesan
Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou
Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the...
Love Never Fails
The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a...
Tipsy Life
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...
The Skin of the South
Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war...
Chocolate and Soldiers
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...
Tokyo Sweetheart
A musical romance.
Che, Che, Che with Love
A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.
Weeping Doll
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the...
Horse
The Den of Beasts
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at...
The Lone Journey
Wakôdo no uta
Wakai musumetachi
Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.
Drifting
Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese...
China Night
Enoken plays a magician real powers come from his magical hat. A jealous theater owner sends girls, then goons, to keep Enoken from performing his...
Enoken's The Magician
Aozora yoitsu mademo
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
An Ishiro Honda film.
The Man Who Came to Port
Lovetide
Mother and Son
A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.
Good Luck to These Two
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...
47 Ronin
The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to...
Taking the Castle
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”
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young...
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
The womanising master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learning the skills himself. He lives to...
Cut the Shadow
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...
Seven Samurai
Jacks and Jills
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
Sazae-san Sequel
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
Sazae-san
Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.
Teenage Sazae
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.
Sazae's Engagement Trip
My Wonderful Yellow Car
Their Father's Wife
Yasugorō shusse
Sazae-san's Baby
1948 Japanese drama film.
A Second Life
Ushidure Express
Utae! Seishun Harikiri Musume
Also known as Crazy Uproar.
Crazy Uproar
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...
Jakoman and Tetsu
Radio Queen
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer...
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police...
I Want to Be a Shellfish
Shot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their country to Japan in order to experience the latter...
Toyuki
Venice Film Festival 1939
Children of the Sun
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...
Sky of Hope
An early Tōhō salaryman musical.
Harikiri Boy
The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an...
Mado Kara Tobidase
Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells him that she's pregnant, he begins to worry. His...
Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu
The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.
The Bitch