Michirō Minami

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

When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and...

Genre: War

Cast: Makoto Satō

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight...

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eitarō Shindō

The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears to sweep out the criminals from the town on his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masumi Tachibana

After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new life as a labor racketeer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

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

A plot by an evil mastermind to eliminate the lead singer of the Japanese "Group Sounds" rock band, The Jaguars, leads the group through a series of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Akiko Nakamura

In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an...

Genre: War

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, however, it is being made into a tourist's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Akiko Nakamura

Mr. Mito, a former president of an instant food company, with two young men’s help, solves the quality problems and wins a big ramen contract...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Takakura

A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

From an original story by Shibata Renzaburo, the novelist who created such classics as: the "Nemuri Kyoshiro" series (Son of the Black Mass),...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

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Cast: Makoto Satō

A Texan visiting Tokyo takes medicine that gives him strength.

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Cast: Midori Isomura

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Cast: Kotaro Satomi

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A kabuki actor is assassinated during a New Year celebration show, in front of everyone, fortunately the great detective Umon is among the audience....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

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Cast: Ken Takakura

Two rival groups of gangsters vie for control of a tiny port town in northern Japan. Daisuke, a member of the older of the two gangs, and Kosuke, a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroshi Inuzuka

After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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

1958 Japanese movie

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

Movie directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda

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Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusual case involving the manufacture of counterfeit...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kotaro Satomi