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The adventures of a modern day descendant of a famed Edo era thief are the basis for this short supernatural comedy romp.
A Buddhist Mass for Goemon Ishikawa
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
Pigs and Battleships
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a...
Jungle Block
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...
The Burmese Harp
Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of...
I Was Born, But...
A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is...
Love Eternal
12-part omnibus made under the rules: "the main character is a detective" "at least one gag per minute" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes"
Deka Matsuri
1962 Japanese movie
Kimagure tosei
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current...
A Story of Floating Weeds
Black Dice
Yume ga ippai abarenbō
Seinen no isu
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.
Foundry Town
An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...
Apart from You
1961 Japanese movie
Ōatari hyappatsuhyakuchū
Facing to the Clouds
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Break Down that Wall
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she...
No Blood Relation
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a...
What Did the Lady Forget?
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...
The Rambler Goes North
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing...
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...
Street Without End
Taiyō no yō ni akaruku
College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even...
The Perfect Game
A blind woman suspects that something isn’t right about the reappeared wife of her brother after she was missing for 6 months. Soon things take...
The Shadow on the Wall
In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take...
Passing Fancy
In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from...
The Rambler Rides Again
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...
The Thick-Walled Room
A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.
Greatest Boss Of Japan
Surging Waves
After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.
Modern Children
Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.
Mother's Love Letter
Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.
Forget Love for Now
This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940...
Kokumin no chikai
Yuriko, once a concert pianist, now practices home-making while husband Takashi stays out late with co-workers, leaving her to decay into severe...
Welcome Home
Three WWII veterans, reunited by family circumstances, quickly find their life savings threatened by a private corporation; they band together to...
Not Forgotten
A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors...
Five Siblings
Hitori tabi
A prisoner escapes from prison to find the real criminal.
Crazy Jailbreak
Moeru minamijūjisei
A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.
A Straightforward Boy
Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou
Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu,...
A Man Explodes
Jūdan no arashi
A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and...
Fangs of Night
ゆがんだ月
The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the...
Blood for Blood
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An...
Dancing Girls of Izu
Hard Times
Silent comedic short by Mikio Naruse
Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is...
A Hero of Tokyo
This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things...
I Flunked, But...
Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.
The Lady and the Beard
The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their...
Eclipse
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
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking,...
Intimidation
Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he...
Walk Cheerfully
Kato's splendid mustache is an obstacle when it comes to finding a job. However, he gets a job as a security guard at a construction site. The...
The Strength of a Moustache
Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
Chocolate Girl
Crying to the Blue Sky
This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...
The Groom Talks in His Sleep
A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.
Burden of Life
Dumped by a bored pet owner, a mixed-breed mutt ends up with three time loser Yasuyuki, who's loveless, homeless and jobless. Yasuyuki finds solace...
Walking With The Dog
Japanese comedy film.
金語楼の俺は殺し屋だ
On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, but Kawase believes he is a murder suspect who fled...
A World For Two
An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and...
An Inn in Tokyo
A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless slum. He is shocked to learn that his younger...
Savage Wolf Pack
Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his...
Fight of the Gamblers
A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a...
Born Under Crossed Stars
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job...
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
A Japanese film
Him, Her, and the Boys
On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew...
The Eagle and the Hawk
On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.
Children in the Wind
The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town...
The Rambler in the Sunset
Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival...
The Rambling Guitarist
A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.
Pure Emotions of the Sea
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect...
Intentions of Murder
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
The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives...
Return of the Vagabond
An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting...
The Guys Who Put Money on Me
The Will to Live
A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
Take Aim at the Police Van
An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.
Pistol Opera
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
Youth of the Beast
The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he...
Underworld Beauty
Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who runs an illegal gun trade.
Passion and Rifle Bullets
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...
A Japanese Tragedy
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo...
The Only Son
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...
Burden of Love
On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest...
The Sound of Waves
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
I Am Waiting
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...
The Loyal 47 Ronin
When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a...
The Life of an Office Worker
A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start...
The Luck Which Touched the Leg
In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the...
An Innocent Maid
Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.
The Call of Blood
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...
Temptation
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...
The Guitarist and the Rancher
The Sky Is Mine
Lone Wolf
During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman...
A Star Athlete
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
The Incorrigible
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...
Frankie the Milkman
Kanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a dark shadow. Raised by her father, Jusaburo, who is the...
Jûnana-sai no teikô
This short comedy concerns the extramarital affair of a drugstore owner. It is based on a popular song by the star of the film, Frank Nagai.
Nishi Ginza Station
Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and...
The Tokyo Mighty Guy
If you throw this child away
If You Throw This Child Away
Period film from 1934.
With a Single Sword Bale
Japanese crime film
Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
Keiji monogatari jazu wa kurutchai nē
Shōjo
A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab