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The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...
A Good Man, A Good Day
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...
Kwaidan
1962 Japanese movie
次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, complained to the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The...
Police Precinct Part 14
The First Investigation Department is investigating a murder case that took place at a government agency, with particular attention to finding an...
Police Department Story Pt.15: Alibi
A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.
Fateful Birthplace
A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the best whaling ship Hayabusa Maru. One day they will...
Men Fighting Whales
The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night...
Police Precinct Part 17
Detectives of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department are investigating the murder of a 15-year-old girl, whose strangled...
Police Department Story Pt.16: 15 Year Old Woman
Color
1961 Toei comedy
Tale of A Company Boss Pt.2
The investigation team of the police department is chasing a vicious criminal who kidnaps children, the key to catching the villain this time is the...
Police Department Story Pt.18: Mysterious Red Phone
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional...
The King
A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun...
The Outsiders
Based on an autobiographical novel by Toshiko Takagi, set close to the end of World War II
Tokyo Air Raid Glass Rabbit
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to...
Red Lion
When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous...
Tracked
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
I Will Buy You
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with...
Mount Hakkoda
In the former landfill, where construction is currently underway, the corpse of a middle-aged man with an unusual rosary in his hand was dug up. An...
Police Department Story Pt.19: Landfill
A film adaptation of the original novel by Kazuo Dan. This exciting film, set in Asia on the eve of violent changes, tells the story of a young man...
Manchurian Sunset
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.
A Legend, or Was It?
Sashichi is a dapper and handsome man. He is called a doll Sashichi because he is "a nice man like a doll." On top of that, he is a considerable...
Ningyo Sashichi: The Cat’s Golden Claws of Death
Tadateru Matsudaira, the sixth son of Ieyasu Tokugawa, was exiled for not taking part in the attack on Osaka Castle. 10 years before his exile...
Wind Whistle in Field, Demon Sword: Matsudaira Tadateru cutting the world
1959 Japanese movie
Keishichō monogatari 108 gōsha
Keishichō monogatari iryū-hin nashi
Keishichō monogatari gao no nai on'na
A burnt corpse of a man was found in Okutama. As a result of the investigation, it turns out that the criminal strangled the victim with a bandage,...
Police Precinct Part 21
Hayata and his best friend Ushijima came to Tokyo to become champions. Hayata repeatedly sought to join Tamura's boxing club, but Tamura fell in love...
Showdown in Blood
Police Precinct Part 12
1954 Theater of Life adaptation.
Jinsei Gekijo Yokubo hen: sanshu kirako
This time, the investigation division is investigating the case of a man who confessed to killing a woman in a labyrinth 2 years ago, adhering to the...
Police Department Story Pt.20: Backing Investigation
A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins,...
Floating Weeds Diary
A mysterious thief called "Yami no Kiba" (Fang of Darkness), who sneaks into the residences of the shogunate one after another and steals the...
The Shogun's Vault II
A 16-year-old high school student Midori Matsumoto was found dead on the banks of the Tama River. The only clue is shoe marks on rubber soles. From...
Police Department Story Pt.22: Teenage Footsteps
Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years...
Summer of the Moonlight Sonata
The corpse of a man is found in the Dobu River in Tokyo, the victim was a man named Genzaburo Sakai, who was engaged in debt collection. The shoe...
Police Department Story Pt.23: Confession
A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge...
Gamblers' Luck
Secret
A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns.
War and Peace
Two people disappeared, engineers of the company Yamato Matsui and Koyama. The two worked overtime, and it is proven that they consumed alcohol...
Police Department Story Pt.24: Missing
River Washes Away the Moon
After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.
Dorei kōjō
Komadori shimai oke-sa wataridori
Hamanaka Koichi returns to his wife Hisako and family in a sadder, run-down section of eastern Tokyo after having run away from home years before. He...
Tokyo Lullaby
Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to...
Basara: The Princess Goh
A special drama starring Masahiro Nakai of SMAP, which was aired on Fuji TV six times from 1996 to 2005. The original is a comic of the same name by...
The Way of Osaka Financing 1
During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head of the opposing lord to declare victory.
Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!
Beauty Wandering Story
Curry Rice
1961 gangster film.
Red Flowers of Hell
A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen...
Koto—The Lake of Tears
A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...
Devotion to Railway
Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.
The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye
To fulfill a friend’s dying wish, a young sailor Kenji takes on the task of delivering an heirloom to his friend’s daughter, Harumi, who...
The Deep Blue Sea
Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba returns as the reckless son of a private detective takes on the case of a minor league baseball pitcher who...
Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an...
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same...
Outlaw Cop
Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn...
Vacuum Zone
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and...
Snow Trail
Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife,...
The Glamorous Ghost
1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.
Devil's Nursery Rhyme
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
One after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented boom in snow men, the public began to make a fuss...
Himalayan Wanderer
Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his...
The Last Song
Japanese comedy film.
Tale of a Company Boss
A story about the nature of office workers today.
Tale of a Company Boss 3
Sonny Chiba's first martial arts film, a partially fictionalized judo biopic based on prominent judoka Shiro Saigo (Chiba), the second student of...
Judo Life
Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the...
Points and Lines
Kamiki (Sonny Chiba) is a career criminal who is given the chance to break out of prison for the 33rd time. Afterwards Kaimiki teams up with a bunch...
Jail Breakers
Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face. She shows up at the elementary school and acts...
Tomorrow Evening
In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious...
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in order to obtain a huge sum of money to enable his...
Kumokiri Nizaemon: The Great Bandit
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
Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.
The Man of Seven Faces
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
An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.
Man of the World 2
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Street of Violence
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.
Oh, My Son!
Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a puppet theatre club, meets Michiko, who works at...
Kandagawa
Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time.
Guys Who Never Learn
In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as...
No Greater Love
Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.
The Cannery Boat
Shishun no izumi
Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period.
The Bandits
Su-San invites Hama-chan to go fishing at a place close to his heart after learning about Hama-chan and his wife's fertility problems.
Free and Easy 3
Ichiro (Chiba) is a scrappy little sport in a big car and funny hat always looking for some fun and some extra cash on the side. He and his friends...
Man with the Funky Hat
Japanese drama film.
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
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
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of...
Village of Eight Gravestones
Rainbow Over the Pacific is a tale of romance that moves from the streets of Tokyo to the islands of Hawaii as it weaves the story of two...
Rainbow Over the Pacific
After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their...
The Orphan Brother
The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome...
Seven Masks of Revenge
Contrast between two outlooks on life: one of a poor factory worker and the other the heir to millions.
The Sunset is Calling Me
Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
Follow the Girls
A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they...
The Naked Sun
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because...
Where Spring Comes Late
The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's beauty attracts numerous would-be lovers among...
His Scarlet Cloak
A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa...
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the work of Gaijin boss Brown and his henchman...
The Big Boss
In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic...
The Christian Revolt
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Princess Kazu, the daughter of Shogun Ienari, is sent to marry Matsudaira Nobunao, master of Peacock castle in Kozuke province, a domain of 17,000...
Bride of Peacock Castle
Fourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
Moonlight Mask: The Monster Gorilla
The film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of an atomic bomb on humans for the first time in history.
Hiroshima
Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after...
The Trail of Blood
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home...
The Great Duel
When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.
The Sand City in Manchuria
Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his...
The Irresponsible Fool
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating...
Detective Duel
Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and...
With Songs in My Heart
Employee Full of Fight
An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.
Men in a Rough Town
Bad Reputation: Imposter's Paradise
An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.
Women Can't Be Beaten
As the Shogun lays dying, seventeen Iga clan ninja are sent to infiltrate the impenetrable fortress where his youngest son is preparing to storm Edo...
Seventeen Ninja
Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After...
Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman
Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman originally looking after the boy, was forced to...
Game of Chance 2
Comedy of two brothers working at a local governmental office.
The Instant Services Bureau
Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and...
Hold Me and Kiss Me
Two men succeed in opening a joint restaurant after hilarious troubles.
One Two Punch
About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical...
Still I Live On
The Street Without Sun
One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.
Murder on The Last Train
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...
The Eleventh Hour
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....
The Surf
Police Precinct
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
The Castle of Sand
Hell's Juggler
A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to...
Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr Matsukuma although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and is...
Tomoshibi
This movie depicts a familiar samurai Tange Sazen story realistically. A Tange loses one of his eyes and arms in an attempt to recover a masterpiece...
Sazen Tange: Heavenly Clouds, Earthly Dragon
Japanese movie
Itahachi shima
When the Night Breaks
Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners.
Tale of Young Drifter
Sequel to the movie Denko karate uchi.
Meteor Karate Strike
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
Police Precinct Part 7
Police Precinct Part 8
Hell's Companion
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the...
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
Tomizo, a master storehouse-breaker who has been released from prison in Denmacho after serving five years plans to break into the Edo Castle gold...
The Shogun's Vault I
Oniwaban is an organization that is composed of two ninja groups… Iga and Koga. This is a story of a secret spy who settled in Okazaki Joka...
The Undercover Ninja Organization
A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.
Karate Cop
The son of the murdered Yakuza, Kenji, at the request of his mother, worked in a stable company. However, soon the girl Kenji Amy, who was in favor...
Won't Stand for Dying