Asao Sano

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinzō Shin

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūsuke Kawazu

A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mizuho Suzuki

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kō Mishima

A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fumio Watanabe

Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in Africa where the family had been living...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hajime Izu

On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kinzō Shin

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...

Genre: War

Cast: Shirō Ōsaka

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often...

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Cast: Yôko Minamida

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jō Shishido

Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from...

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masako Izumi

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

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

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shirō Ōsaka

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to survive during and after the war with her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kensaku Morita

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that...

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Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideaki Nitani

In a fishing town by the Seto Sea, a student discovers a woman motionless on the beach and takes her back to his family's inn to nurse her, but he...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Iwatsuki Reiko, a writer for a weekly magazine goes on a trip to Amakusa, Kyushu with Yukitake Asami, the president of a company. Yukitake informs...

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Cast: Maki Mizuno

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Cast: Muga Takewaki

Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jūkichi Uno

A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Yamauchi

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Wada

One morning, Kazue is nearly knocked over by a motorbike in front of an instrument store, breaking all the records that she was carrying. The two...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who runs an illegal gun trade.

Genre: Action

Cast: Seizaburō Kawazu

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yumiko Nogawa

Sixth part in the Enblem of Man series.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.

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Cast: Chieko Matsubara

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Yamauchi

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūko Mochizuki

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a...

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Cast: Ryōji Hayama

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shirō Ōsaka

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

A true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a sailor who embarked on a single underworld to...

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

In the middle of the Edo period, when the finances of the shogunate were in a desperate situation, the shogunate sent its shadow spies to each clan,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroaki Murakami

A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.

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Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters!

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Wada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sanshô Shinsui

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's...

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Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

A small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group of eight policemen solve a series of unusual cases,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadao Sawamoto

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideaki Nitani

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mugihito

1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meiko Kaji

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening credits...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pursues the organizer of the arms trade route from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryōji Hayama

It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideaki Nitani

In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a young girl! A gloomy portrait of youth, in which...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

Four criminals break into the home of a jewelry merchant, Sanpodo, rob the diamonds, and escape. However, one of them receives a bullet during a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tadao Sawamoto

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Cast: Chōchō Miyako

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Cast: Naoko Ken

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Cast: Naoko Ken

The first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but decided to leave after his best friend died a brutal...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Eleventh film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tetsurō Sagawa

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Shigeru, a serious young man who works as a glass cleaner, has an older brother Kenzo, who has returned from prison. Kenzo was determined to become...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada