Naoko Ohtani

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps off...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Noriko Nakagoshi

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Minori Terada

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Toshiya Fujita

A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroyuki Miyasako

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Hiroshi Katsuno

A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoko Ohtani

Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

This is a sad and beautiful story about a father who is a popular comedian and a son who suffered by an incurable disease.

Genre: Family

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Shuichi Furukawa receives a phone call from his mother. She reminds him that they are moving the next day. The following day, Shuichi takes a train...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jun Murakami

Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Naoko Ohtani

Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

A young woman returns to the island where she grew up.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshino Kimura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Fujioka

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

The body of Shinsuke Maeda, a wealthy older man, is discovered in his garden. While at first glance it appears that he missed his step while exiting...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Shirō Itō

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tasuku Emoto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Toei studios last ninkyo eiga of the 70's.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Yang dynasty artifact, one of the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Naoko Ohtani

After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Keio universities play one final game...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nagashima

Yasutake Shingo works as a newspaper reporter but his life is stiffled and lifeless. That changes one day when he meets the irrepressible Matsunaga...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sarasa Ayuba

On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho heads to a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

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Cast: Masaharu Fukuyama

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Cast: Mari Atsumi

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Shohei works as a doctor in a seaside hospital. One day, a new patient is admitted to the hospital with ovarian cancer. Shohei is surprised to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoto Takenaka