Eimei Esumi

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu"...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

The young and beautiful Sada Abe, the daughter of a rich merchant, is banished for losing her virginity after being raped by a college student. Sada...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Junko Miyashita

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenji Sawada

The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junko Miyashita

It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya's (literally, the house that sells...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junko Miyashita

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigious family, from a mysterious commune in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

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Cast: Setsuko Ogawa

A nurse is raped in a doctor's office. The caresses of the perpetrator keep coming to her mind after the assault. She will start a search for the...

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Cast: Kyôko Miri

Shotaro, a young man who was kidnapped as a baby by a prostitute, lives and entertains in a seaside brothel. He often has to spend the night in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junko Miyashita

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jō Shishido

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshitaka Zushi

A naive country girl runs away to the city and gets picked up by a kindly well dressed man. She soon finds that life can be cruel.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūko Katagiri

A parable about the inefficiency and anachronism of the Japanese educational system, which places an unusually large amount of importance on cramming...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shigeru Yamamoto

A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his lovers uses his affairs for the subjects of his novels.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kōji Shimizu

The lovely Ryoko is attending a Japanese University on an exchange program. She’s pretty, vulnerable, shy and full of mysterious secrets....

Genre: Horror

Cast: Erina Miyai

Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Daijirô Harada

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Released after seven years in prison, an inveterate thug goes from strength to ruthless strength as he makes his way through a succession of dubious...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiromi Go

In a religious school for girls the pure love between two students is torn apart by social and moral corruption.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûko Asuka

A daughter returns home to her ailing adopted father. A home that has a violent past, missing money and a tragic misunderstanding.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Etsuko Hara

After the death of their father, a older brother and his younger sister return to their family home on a secluded island. They are accompanied by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiyoko Ogura

An ambitious businessman knocks up his mistress with fraternal twins. He keeps the boy but sends his bodyguard to dispose of the mother and the girl....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Kozue

A doctor develops a new scientific breakthrough in female psychotherapy with the discovery of the “Dream Ring,” a device that is inserted...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Maiko Kazama

A professor of erotic art sees his chance to practice what he teaches when by happenstance he meets a suicidal high school girl. Unsure at first how...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Hayano

In pre-war Japan, Yumiko, an aristocratic lady, accompanied by her maid, travels to Tokyo to visit her brother. Unaware that her brother has become...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naomi Tani

The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoko Takahashi

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

A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

The movie was inspired by real life test driver Yukio Fukuzawa, who on 12 February 1969 lost control of his Toyota 7 at Fuji Speedway near...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toru Minegishi

A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideo Kanze

A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

The wife of a prominent businessman works as a late-night radio personality. One night on her way to the radio station, she is raped by a motorcycle...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yuki Kazamatsuri

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

A high school girl has a very very bad day. She is disciplined for disrupting class and sent to clean lab equipment. Feeling horny she uses a phallic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Ota

The story of a second rate detective asked to tail a mysterious woman who is cheating on her man.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yuya Uchida

Kanako returns from the USA to a troubled mother who witnessed a man leaving a murder scene and is consequently under persistent threat. For the time...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Noriko Watanabe

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

The world of secret sex performers is shown through the lives of a husband and wife team. Their manager must contend with pesky customers and a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akemi Nijo

In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jō Shishido

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Cast: Rumi Tama

One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shoichi Ozawa

A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomokazu Miura

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 bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoto Takenaka

A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jō Shishido

Genre: Western

Cast: Jō Shishido

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisano Yamaoka

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A sexually frustrated young wife is determined to find a way to excite her impotent husband. She goes to a sex clinic for help and has various erotic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Megumi Kiyosato

A female private investigator is asked to find a missing young wife and uncovers a man who preys on lonely ladies.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junko Asahina

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Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Aoi

Various family members scheme to inherit their father’s business for themselves… by any means.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Asô

A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Officer Ryotsu is ordered to team up with FBI agent Lisa Hoshino to find a terrorist who is currently in Tokyo. For an unknown reason, only buildings...

Genre: Animation

Cast: LaSalle Ishii

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Cast: Natsuko Yashiro

A wife works two jobs to support her husband who is cheating on her.

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Cast: Yūko Katagiri

A nightmare that suddenly attacks an ordinary housewife: rape. However, the real nightmare was the threat that began because the information was...

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Cast: Erina Miyai

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Cast: Junko Miyashita

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Cast: Natsuko Yashiro

The film depicts the daughter of a concubine of a political and business mastermind who is involved in a corruption scandal, and a woman who controls...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rushia Santô

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nami Matsukawa

A lonely wife has a love affair with the newly widowed neighbor while her husband is away on business.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maiko Kazama

Musical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then she is offered a role in a new production that appears...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

After having dropped out of school and given birth at age 16, Mako has little choice but to move in with the baby's deadbeat father. Struggling to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tayori Hinatsu

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.

Genre: Music

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinobu Otake

1974 Japanese film.

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Cast: Miwako Onaya

Fifth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

1975 Toei movie.

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Cast: Yôko Asakura