Shinichi Yanagisawa

The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Shunya Wazaki

A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koichi Sato

A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Matsuyama

Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Saori and her mother years before. Now her father's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ko Shibasaki

Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster’s henchman hears her singing and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hibari Misora

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hibari Misora

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norihei Miki

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinichi Yanagisawa

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eitarō Shindō

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eitarō Shindō

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yoshiko Kayama

At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe killed a real estate broker. As he was...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Go Wakabayashi

This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shirō Ōsaka

Suspense film about a beautiful photographer who becomes involved in a murder case.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yoko Shimada

Pinky and Yoko are about to graduate. Full of hope and uncertainties they embark on a tale of temptation.

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Cast: Yoko Kon

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noboru Andō

In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Japanese youth film.

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Cast: Akira Mita

A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missing brother.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Matsuyama

Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chosuke Ikariya

It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

Also known as "History of a Man’s Face" and "By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him" . Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

The series follows the odd life of kindergartener Makoto Sawada and his family. Makoto gets into all sorts of toilet and adult humor. He sometimes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junji Chiba

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

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Cast: Eitarō Shindō

Nobuko and five male friends graduate from a high school, promising to remain friends forever. One year later, Nobuko is working as a mediocre...

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Cast: Hiroshi Fujioka

This short comedy concerns the extramarital affair of a drugstore owner. It is based on a popular song by the star of the film, Frank Nagai.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Nagai

The second Tora-San feature.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

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Cast: Michiyo Aratama

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 youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

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

Comedy movie

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bontarō Taira

Seijuro Fujihana, head master of the Fujihana dance school, is a proud and lonely artist. And because of his character, his group lacks the...

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Cast: Hibari Misora

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Eitarō Shindō

Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

The golden duo of Yukio Hashi and Chieko Baisho. A film rich in a variety of songs, dances and falling in love to the rhythm of Yukio Hashi's song of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yukio Hashi

1961 Toei comedy

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eitarō Shindō

In the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to break all ties with their previous lives and form the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s a musical comedy that shows Segawa’s...

Genre: Music

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

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Cast: Yaeko Wakamizu

A man meets the spirit of a murdered gangster after he spills alcohol over his grave.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Reiko Arai