Ken Mitsuda

In medieval Japan, a woman and his children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukio Mishima

In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

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

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

Pu Zhe , the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu Wen, marries Ryuko the daughter of a long-established aristocratic family - all in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...

Genre: Drama

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

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Mie Hama

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

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

A cosmetics saleswoman falls for a rival executive.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hibari Misora

A 1948 Japanese film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Usami

Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the...

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Cast: Mayumi Ogawa

It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one of their earliest films together, superstars...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noboru Nakaya

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

Japanese action film set in Arabia.

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Susumu Fujita

Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiro Tamiya

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as...

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

Genre: History

Cast: Yatsuko Tan'ami

After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

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Cast: Mayumi Ogawa

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Keiji Sada

A greedy Japanese barmaid serves her aged escort too many noodles.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Mie Hama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Takumi Takahara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sen Yamamoto

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and...

Genre: War

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

To avenge the death of his brother, a student shooting champion infiltrates the criminal world. An entertaining action drama and an interesting love...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jun Negami

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Ishihara

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

1956 Japanese movie

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Cast: Machiko Mizuhara

1956 Japanese movie

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Cast: Machiko Mizuhara