Kan Yanagiya

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kieko Sawamura

The sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Fumitake Ōmura

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

First Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Fumitake Ōmura

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yôko Minamida

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.

Genre: Music

Cast: Hiroshi Nawa

Second Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Genre: Action

Cast: Fumitake Ōmura

Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

Fifth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Genre: Action

Cast: Fumitake Ōmura

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jūkichi Uno

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yôko Minamida

The 3rd Moonlight Mask movie from the 50s.

Genre: Action

Cast: Fumitake Ōmura

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Nobuo Kaneko

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

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

A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take over a lucrative diamond mine business.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved in a robbery of precious diamond.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ennosuke Ichikawa

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

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

Genre: War

Cast: Joji Oka

Japanese family drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

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Cast: Hajime Izu

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

The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to keep the wolf from the door. The farmers are...

Genre: War

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Den Obinata

It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

Fourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fumitake Ōmura

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chōchō Miyako

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

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream...

Genre: War

Cast: Isamu Nagato

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Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

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Cast: Eitarō Shindō

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...

Genre: History

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop clerk. They are close. One day a woman named...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A rich bourgeoisie family has little care in the world and knows no other lifestyle. It is only the family's second daughter who has an insecure bone...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, complained to the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Yūji Hori

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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

Best friends Gentaro and Sanpei become fateful enemies when Sanpei steals a secret document revealing the identity of the chosen successor to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal, which takes place in Yokohama. Tamba...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Eitarō Shindō

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

Movie directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda

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Cast: Hashizo Okawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Haruko Wanibuchi

Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love...

Genre: War

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the shores of Shibaura. A month and a half later,...

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Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

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Cast: Kei Tani