Chieko Nakakita

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Numasaki

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Miura

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frankie Sakai

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

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Setsuko Hara

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Yamauchi

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akira Takarada

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Masayuki Mori

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.

Genre: Music

Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jitsuko Yoshimura

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Toku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Takarada

Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Nakakita

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hajime Hana

During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko (Mayumi Ozora), the widow of a naval officer. She,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroshi Mizuhara

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideko Takamine

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

In the late 1950's prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this profession they were sent to a reformatory. This is the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chisako Hara

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

Genre: War

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornographic pictures. He frequents a cafe run by two...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoko Aoyama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

An Ishiro Honda film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

An Ishiro Honda film.

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Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

An Ishiro Honda film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Ryô is a young leopard, Maki a rhythmical wave. The barrier between a teacher and a student gives way to the passionate embrace of a man and a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

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Cast: Shin Saburi

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

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

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Cast: Joji Oka

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be (Ichiro Araki) is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mako Midori

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

Genre:

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...

Genre:

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shoichi Ozawa

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Akira Takarada

Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Genre:

Cast: Mako Midori

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yōko Fujiyama

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yumi Shirakawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tadao Takashima

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Ishihara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Junzaburō Ban

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka