Takahiro Tamura

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...

Genre: War

Cast: Martin Balsam

Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ahn Sung-ki

Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daughter, Yoriko: the sole survival of a bloodbath for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Minoru Ōki

Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional barons struggling to reinstate their young...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jūshirō Konoe

Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Terao

Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Noriko Arita

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinji Tanaka

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

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

Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

Genre: War

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old...

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Cast: Takahiro Tamura

A young man is on an inner journey as he searches for meaning in love, eroticism and marriage. He boards a train, and all the clocks are mirrored...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kosumosuko

Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Okuda

Korean-Japanese director Gu Su Yeon makes his directorial debut with the mouthwateringly delicious The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi. As the title clearly...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

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

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiro Tamiya

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender. Remake of Hiroshi Inagaki's Jigoku no mushi (1938).

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the end of Japan's feudal age with the...

Genre: History

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...

Genre: History

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan Otsuru) is a big-city workaholic sent to a small...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Baisho

Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col....

Genre: War

Cast: Ken Takakura

The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sen Yamamoto

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teiji Takahashi

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

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 woman and her bridegroom are found murdered in their bed the day after their wedding. It had snowed overnight and the killer left no tracks. It is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Nakao

An antique sword exposes tension between three siblings.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Furuoya

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima

In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu...

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Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Genre: Action

Cast: Gitan Ohtsuru

A woman looks after her father in law.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the Kamakura period (1185-1333) in Japan. Nichiren...

Genre: History

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamasa falls ill.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo (Mist Saizo) returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Matsukawa

Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Koichi Sato

During the age of warring clans (Sengoku Jidai), many samurai lords sought to unite the country under their banners by becoming the supreme leader....

Genre: History

Cast: Ken Matsudaira

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō I

The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

1966 film directed by Kudo.

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Cast: Mayumi Ogawa

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsible for his father’s murder. He then learns...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Japanese romantic comedy film.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Minoru Ōki

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.

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Cast: Hizuru Takachiho

After a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a carefree girl Miyo, after teaching her to ride. When...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Riki Takeuchi

A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.

Genre: War

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Ishihama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...

Genre: War

Cast: Hideko Takamine

The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. On August 15, 1945, Soviet forces...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Terumi Niki

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chōchō Miyako

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...

Genre: History

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Faraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the agent that cause syphilis, and for his relentless...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

The Story of the three Japanese castaways Otokichi, Kyukichi and Iwakichi. After their ship the Hojunmaru was damaged, they drifted to America and...

Genre: History

Cast: Teruhiko Saigō

Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War.

Genre: War

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries....

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mariko Okada

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 story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A rare grouping of the three Tamura brothers, Masakazu, Takahiro, and Ryu highlight this exciting tale of a series of attempts on the life of Shogun...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Hashizume

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Akira Hojo and Chiaki Asami live different lives in Tokyo, Japan: Hojo is the leader of a small but rising Yakuza clan, while Asami is a politician...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiya Nagasawa

The sequel to "Flowers and Dragons". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unites people with his courage, and revolts against...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō II

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

Hunting master Ginzo kills a man-eating bear. When he finds out the bear had a cub, Ginzo decides to raise the cub, but the bear later becomes a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

A film commemorating the 25th anniversary of Hibari Misora's performing career. Written by Matsutaro Kawaguchi for Hibari Misora to celebrate her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Japanese crime film

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Cast: Michiko Saga

1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo

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Cast: Takahiro Tamura

Thief Yaheiji (Keizo Kanie) helped a dying young samurai (Hiroaki Murakami), after recovering, he lost his memory and returned to Edo under the name...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroaki Murakami

Popular guitarist Shunsuke Sugi had a busy schedule and lived a puppet life with manager Yoko Ohara. On the way home from the Tohoku tour, he rescued...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masakazu Tamura

In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Baisho

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Ōki

In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chieko Matsubara

Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misako Watanabe

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Cast: Tatsuo Terashima

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts...

Genre: History

Cast: Tamami Hirose

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Cast: Takahiro Tamura

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Cast: Hizuru Takachiho

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Cast: Chikage Awashima

A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diane Lane

The Saika clan, that had succeeded in battle against the large armies of Nobunaga and Hideyoshi, had in the Tokugawa era of Ieyasu, been driven into...

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Cast: Daisuke Ryū

Tatsuo Osone movie

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Michiko Saga

After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kotaro Satomi

One day, a deaf photographer, Miki Yamashina, happens to meet a young man, Makoto Shibata, on the street. Shibata had been averse to human contact...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akiko Oshidari

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mariko Okada

Post World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military. One day, he is arrested due to the plotting of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kato

One summer day, Tokujiro, who works at an ironworks in the industrial area of ​​Kawasaki, joins a choir group in order to seduce the girls who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Takeda

Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an infant. Bunzo loves Keiji so much that he does every...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taiji Tonoyama

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.

Genre: War

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Takahiro Tamura

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Cast: Masakazu Tamura

The second installment of the special drama "Kawaiteshimau" features Masakazu Tamura playing the role of "Udege Shujo," the official taster for the...

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Cast: Masakazu Tamura

One day poison is discovered in the shogun's food. The brilliant swordsman Mondo sets out to save Japan's leader from certain death.

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Cast: Takahiro Tamura

When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in order to obtain a huge sum of money to enable his...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Fukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and sold. One day Shino came to like a thief (Yoshioka) who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

A biographical documentary produced as part of the 20th anniversary project of the silent film appreciation society led by Shunsui Matsuda, who was...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shunsui Matsuda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gen Hoshino