Kaneko Iwasaki

A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their...

Genre: Family

Cast: Mieko Harada

Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kieko Sawamura

As the monk Ryuun, whose past and origin make him prone to internal and external fits, leaves the temple towards Tokyo, he gets to catch a glimpse of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi

Japanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.

Genre: History

Cast: Jiro Kawarazaki

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the family. She fell in love with her language...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Eriko" by Yukio Hashi.

Genre: Music

Cast: Yukio Hashi

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shinji Yamada

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoko Minamino

A high school student Hitomi poses as a university student and ends up in falling in love with middle-aged Okawa, her dead mother's ex-boyfriend....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoyo Harada

This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Hikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his soul, allowing him to cure others with his newfound...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomokazu Miura

Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

Kounosuke Mibu and Tae Horikawa are unable to forget each other, even though they met and fell in love 20 years ago. They had promised each other...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that...

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Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

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Cast: Hiromi Go

Kenshi Tokunaga runs an IT company in Tokyo. Due to a big company, he has a hard time in hiring engineers. He decides to find engineers for his...

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Cast: Sekiguchi Tomohiro

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

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Cast: Kakuko Chino

Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kyoko Koizumi

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiya Nakano

Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryoko Nakano

Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima

Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to...

Genre: War

Cast: Yuji Oda

A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō II

A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General...

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

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Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public pressure, and the territory belonged to the Hirata...

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Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yonetaro fell asleep after being kicked by a sick...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

The Chase after Opium Dealers

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Sequel to 'Sniper THE SHOOTIST'

Genre: Action

Cast: Toru Nakamura

Third film of the yoidore hakase series

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomomi Satô

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,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

A young girl must spend six years making sweatshirts out of poison ivy in order to save her six brothers which have been turned into swans by an evil...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiko Masuyama

Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideaki Nitani

After decades of single-minded dedication to his work, a worker with an elite career course at a major bank is transferred or rather relegated to a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Tachi

Ken Watanabe, a young man from Tokyo, comes to the great plains of Rumo, Hokkaido to see his hometown with his own eyes. Ken, who was entangled in...

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Morio Kazama

Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mariko Okada

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Miyuki Kuwano

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinsuke Ashida