Hajime Izu

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Setsuko Hara

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hajime Izu

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.

Genre: War

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yasufumi Hayashi

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noriko Tsuji

Jiban goes into action to save Yoko and several captured children from Doctor Giba's plot of creating the ultimate lifeform.

Genre: Action

Cast: Shouhei Kusaka

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

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Cast: Hajime Izu

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

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Cast: Yukiko Shimazaki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love...

Genre: War

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Hanabu

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Takako Irie

A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns.

Genre: War

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

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Cast: Yukiko Shimazaki

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Cast: Hajime Izu

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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Cast: Ken Uehara

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa

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Cast: Hajime Izu

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akemi Negishi

Professor Daidōji has developed a gravity machine called the GX Device. Unfortunately, Shocker wants it; so they attack the professor and destroy...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Takeshi Sasaki

A sinister organization launches a wave of audacious attacks in an attempt to gain world domination. Commanded by the evil Professor Gill, masked...

Genre: Action

Cast: Daisuke Ban

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ikko Furuya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.

Genre: War

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hatae Kishi

1950 Japanese film

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara