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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
Set in wartime at the Yawata Steel Works in Tobata, Yawata, and Kokura cities in Fukuoka Prefecture, the film depicts people taking on the evil blast...
Hot Wind
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's...
Mothra vs. Godzilla
During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in...
Frankenstein Conquers the World
A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fisherman's son, with the two setting off...
Escapade in Japan
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
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
With one million yen in stolen cash, Kurita plans his escape to Hokkaido with an unwilling bar girl named Katsumi.
Heat and Mud
The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new...
Sanshiro Sugata
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World...
Atragon
Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to...
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to...
The Mysterians
Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...
No Regrets for Our Youth
新遊侠伝
新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
Sekidô matsuri
War film by Kon Ichikawa
Bengawan Solo
Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi
Sunset Over Mount Fuji
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...
The Age of Beginnings
An early film by Kon Ichikawa
Sanshiro of Ginza
In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the...
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai...
Eight Views of Samurai
A 1979 Japanese tokusatsu kaiju film produced by Tsuburaya Productions, consisting of re-edited material from the original television series...
Ultraman: Great Monster Decisive Battle
A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.
A Young Man's Stronghold
Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain...
Attack Squadron
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo....
Shiosai
Machi
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of...
Samurai Assassin
Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and...
Battle of the Japan Sea
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in...
The Storm of the Pacific
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity,...
A Fugitive from the Past
The Militarists
Japanese drama.
Mount Hakone
Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...
Green Earth
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...
Tower of Lilies
Hanran
In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from Sonoi to build railway facilities....
Rira no hana wasureji
The debut film of Shin Toho Productions
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...
Currents of Youth
1945 Japanese movie
Kanchō umi no bara
Episodes 5 and 6 of Return of Ultraman show, screened at Toho Championship Festival.
Return of Ultraman
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...
Japan's Longest Day
A theatrical release of The Return of Ultraman episodes 13-14. It was released on December 12, 1971 as part of the Toho Champion Festival along with...
Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Waterspout Monsters
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship...
The Imperial Navy
Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself...
Winter's Flower
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly...
The Gate of Youth
Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.
Dogora
Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô - Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie.
Hana to ryû - Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô
Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie
Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
A 1944 propaganda film that depicts the fictionalised career of IJAAF pilot Tateo Kato, who led the 64th Sentai during the early months of the...
Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron
Tossing his hat in the air to pick a direction, Yataro the wanderer sets out on a journey of adventure, not knowing what tomorrow may bring. The son...
Yakuza of Ina
The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other...
Kōfuku no genkai
Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and...
The Whole Family Works
Naomi is a university student who is leaving for the US to study in a week; Shuichi is a washed-up gumshoe who's hired by Naomi's father to bodygard...
Detective Story
Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.
A Flower Blooms
1949 Japanese movie
白頭巾現わる
Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the...
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air...
The Falcon Fighters
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts...
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this...
The Longest Tunnel
Japanese comedy film.
Kingoro's Soldier
Japanese war drama.
Yasen kangofu
Japanese war film.
Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru...
The Battleship Yamato
Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their...
Battle Troop
1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.
銀蛇の岩屋
Japanese drama film.
Akatsuki no Kyūshū
A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was...
Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
Adaptation of Edogawa Ranpo's novel.
The Spider-Man
勤王? 佐幕? 女人曼陀羅
In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an...
Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
ホラ吹き太閤記
Siege of Fort Bismarck
The first of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.
風来忍法帖
The second of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.
風来忍法帖 八方破れ
A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...
Nonki saiban
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
Mother Never Dies
During the Warring States era, Hozoin Kakuzenbo and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, being best friends, spend their days acquiring skills of the spear, sword...
Duel at Yagyu Valley
Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period....
Street of Ronin
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying...
The Gambling Samurai
Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Lord for a Night
This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...
Young Swordsman
The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of...
The Burning Sky
Nichijô no tatakai
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...
Three Women of the North
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an...
The Retreat from Kiska
Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in...
Those Who Make Tomorrow
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to find his father has died under orders of a local...
Rampaging Dragon of the North
Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...
Daredevil in the Castle
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi...
Kojiro
The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his...
The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.
Rub Out the Past
Snow-Flake
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during...
Challenge to Live
A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.
Lullaby for a Tough Guy
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese...
Admiral Yamamoto
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
A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the woman who runs it is in financial trouble. The...
Blue Jeans Memory
Depicting the friendship of three boys in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo.
Good Luck Love
A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful Chinese woman (Ri) aside if he is to succeed at...
Oath on the Burning Sands
Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
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
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
Ishimatsu of the Forest
Kirare no Senta
Zero Fighter
Japanese propaganda film
Navy Bomb Squadron
Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese captivity.
Operation Sewer Rats
Shunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging house girl who is in love with him and in the midst...
Karate Sanshiro
This is an ensemble period drama adapted from Shotaro Ikenami's popular novel, featuring the famous Kabuki actor brothers Kinnosuke Manya and Katsuo...
Baian the Assassin
In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...
Story of Leadership
A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.
Living Image
Okumura Ioko story directed by Shiro Toyoda
Okumura Ioka
Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in...
Song of the White Orchid
Tadashi Imai 1946 movie
An Enemy of the People
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.
Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
Adaptation of the original story by Hida Yoshiro, whose depiction of the world of the yakuza is unparalleled. Gisuke, a weather-beaten yakuza with...
Tōkaidō wa kyōjō tabi