Osamu Takizawa

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

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

Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide....

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Saga

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

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

The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ineko Arima

Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Okada

Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikako Hosokawa

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chieko Baisho

On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiro Tamiya

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She now lives in a local town with a rich old man who...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Shima Iwashita

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

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

Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

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

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emiko Takahashi

Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenzo Asada

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

Historical and political detective. The main characters are drawn into court intrigues, and the investigation of corruption in the administration of...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Yamaguchi

Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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

The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsuhiko Kobayashi

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

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Japanese suspense film.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

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

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Akagi

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

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Cast: Shizue Natsukawa

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

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...

Genre: History

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

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

The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to...

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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

A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful...

Genre: War

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eitarō Ozawa

At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

An early contemporary yakuza action drama.

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers...

Genre: History

Cast: Mikijiro Hira

The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers...

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Cast: Saburo Date

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

The film portrays the experiences of Takashi Nagai as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Wakahara

A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.

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Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

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

A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Higashiyama

Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

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Cast: Susumu Fujita

During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Fukagawa's chef Ushimatsu of the restaurant Kawatake fell in love with a maid named Omame and changed dramatically. He stopped gambling and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shōgo Shimada

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshio Hosokawa

Genre: History

Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hatae Kishi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Keiko Orihara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shōgo Shimada