Kotoe Hatsui

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Keiko Yokozawa

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rika Aoki

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

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

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

Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from...

Genre: Action

Cast: Rika Aoki

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

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Cast: Jun Midorikawa

Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Terutake Tsuji

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

Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

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

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

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

The Gotokuji family has a colossal amount of money. Yuri is a paid housekeeper and sent to this family. While working at the house, she finds a new...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroko Mita

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yôko Minamida

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Yamauchi

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

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Cast: Hiromi Maya

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Wada

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. However, everything gets screwed up when they accidentally steal...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

Pinku from 1971.

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Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and...

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Cast: Kō Nishimura

On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Wada

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

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

Wild-hearted mechanic boy Iwaki falls in love with the innocent but gang tied Michiko.

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

A youth film starring Kōji Wada and Mayumi Shimizu

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Cast: Kōji Wada

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Wada

Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.

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Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meiko Kaji

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

A Japanese boy in love with a girl of Korean origin must battle the prejudices of those around him in order to sustain the relationship.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mi Bom Kang

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

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miki Shimamura

Film distributed by ATG.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoko Ogawa

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koreya Senda

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

Three people from the future, who travel spiritually to the era of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII Philopator and her Roman lovers Julius Caesar and...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Chinatsu Nakayama

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Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jō Shishido

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.

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Cast: Yukio Hashi

Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! The late legendary actor, Yusaku Matsuda, stars in...

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Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Momoi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Takeda

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideki Takahashi

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

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Midori Tashiro

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meiko Kaji

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Ôta

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

High school movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Miho

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shoichi Ozawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mayumi Shimizu

Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown of Yuko, a classmate for whom he has feelings....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

In this town, Kagosuke and Ryukichi of the Okamoto family, who are deeply committed to the yakuza way, are straightforward and justice-loving...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kobayashi