Toshiyuki Hosokawa

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone among the crew insists on changing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiaki Karasawa

A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noriko Kurosawa

The daughter of a Prime Minister turns down the proposal of a young teacher when she falls for the wrong man. Despite the continual degradation by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miyuki Kuwano

Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meiko Kaji

In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

A man in hospital has a weird and sexy conversation with a woman in the next bed, whom he cannot see. He later discovers she is in her sixties. They...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Toshiyuki Hosokawa

All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-white reproduction of a photo of Monument Valley....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yoshiki Arizono

An abridged remake of the first Ashita no Joe TV series, released in 1980 to provide back-story for the second TV series to new fans who were not...

Genre: Action

Cast: Teruhiko Aoi

The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jinpachi Nezu

Young man and woman experience changes in their worldview and question the meaning of life after meeting a dying grandfather.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yusuke Okada

This film is about a train departing Osaka Station at midnight to an unknown destination. The people on this train all have some difficulties in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Atsuko Sakurai

A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the schoolyard bully. When his cousin comes to stay...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Fujita

An abridged remake of the second Ashita no Joe TV series, released in 1981 to show how the series basically ends.

Genre: Action

Cast: Teruhiko Aoi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

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.

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Cast: Tomomi Satô

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Cast: Masahiro Takashima

Takeshi Nanjo, a junior lieutenant in the navy whose father, the head of the Nanjo-gumi yakuza family, was killed, is forced to leave the army and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Tsuyoshi Domoto

In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka...

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Cast: Shiho Fujimura

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Hiroaki Murakami

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Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai