Hiroshi Tachikawa

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hideko Takamine

In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Akira Kubo

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

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

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

Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

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

Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.

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Cast: Junko Natsu

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

A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsuneo Aoki

Genre: Drama

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.

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Cast: Akira Kubo

A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoko Aoyama

College student Yuuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off against their rivals, Seihoku. Yuuichi has his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

An Ishiro Honda film.

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Cast: Akihiko Hirata

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

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

Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenji Sahara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Genre: War

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

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 fifth entry in the Company President Series

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The fifth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Genre: History

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shôji Ishibashi

Crime film released in 1969

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Murasaki Fujima

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jun Funato

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

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Cast: Shinsuke Minami

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yōko Fujiyama

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō II

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lucilla Yu Ming

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...

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Cast: Mariko Okada