Mitsuko Baisho

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Akira Terao

Maki is a talented copper plate artist, however, just before her first gallery show, she gets struck by a truck. When she comes to she is at home....

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Cast: Riho Makise

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Ogata

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

Genre: History

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Junichi Okada

In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya

The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsuya Kobayashi

Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

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Cast: Shinobu Terajima

Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruko Sugimura

Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Fuji

Hamanaka Koichi returns to his wife Hisako and family in a sadder, run-down section of eastern Tokyo after having run away from home years before. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōzō Nagatsuka

A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, softens a hard woman and busts a few heads.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Fuji

1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Yukie is a romance story about an American veteran (Bo Swenson) of the Korean War veteran and his undying love for a beautiful Japanese nurse named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Baisho

A boy, Shin, and his family are forced to evacuate the island of Miyakejima, when it erupts in 2000. Shin's dog, Rock, is mistakenly left behind.

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Cast: Kumiko Aso

Seigo Yoshioka (Kenji Sakaguchi) is a teacher that became mute after a kendo accident. He feels lost after the accident and eventually decides to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sakaguchi

Kageko, a teacher in a small mountain village with a thriving Japanese paper industry, is visited by a former student, who proposes a plan to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Baisho

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lily Franky

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shigeru Izumiya

At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Ogata

A family that was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011, and a family that escaped the disaster. The film...

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Cast: Kiichi Nakai

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

The story opens with Yukiko and her business partner in Moscow searching for Russian items for their store in Tokyo. There they meet a Russian...

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Cast: Narumi Yasuda

Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan Otsuru) is a big-city workaholic sent to a small...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Baisho

The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course :) but instead of a modern yakuza/gangster, he's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A Japanese film that tells the tale of the birth of VHS. It follows Kagatani Shizuo, an electronics employee who rallies his coworkers to save their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Manami Konishi

In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Teruhiko Aoi

Tetsumu, an introverted youth, realizes he has a natural ability of communicating with elephants. This prompts him to leave for Chiang Mai in...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yuya Yagira

Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Katsu (Mitsuko Baisho) is a 73-years-old woman. She often makes trouble with her biting remarks. While raising a daughter alone, Katsu was unable to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mikako Tabe

The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jiro Tamiya

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mathias Gnädinger

Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her...

Genre: Music

Cast: Tomoyo Harada

Kazuya Takajo was a promising soccer player. At the age of 23, he was selected for the national A football team and he bought a house to live with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sho Sakurai

A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Nana Nakamoto

When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Harada

Arrangement instructor Makiko Norita (Yukie Nakama) displays a dignified smile, but she also makes bitting remarks. Nevertheless, with her magic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukie Nakama

Yamakura of the Kobe Fire Department aspires to wear the vaunted “orange” uniform of an elite rescue force that only 3% of all...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Takaya Kamikawa

Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Muga Takewaki

Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Fujita

Romantic drama based on the manga published in Young Comic.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masami Naka

Based on the comic by Mitsutoshi Furuya

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinsuke Minami

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryūzō Hayashi

The mayor is found dead in the river in a small town known for its hot springs. It's assumed that he fell to his death, but his nephew just cannot...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Sorimachi

A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukemia, his wife and child that were left behind, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Keiichi (Kenichi Hagiwara) is a weather man. He gets involved with two married women, Yoshiko (Mitsuko Baisho) and Miyoko (Chieko Baisho). Both want...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length –...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ernest Borgnine

Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld.

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Cast: Bunta Sugawara

When Satoshi was little, his mother Akiko always took good care of him. She was gentle, but mentally strong. However, two years ago she was diagnosed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Yasuda

A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Baisho

Three stories from Shiratsuna Island: "Mikan no hana" Shiratsuna Island is the only remaining island city in Japan, but it is being merged with a...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ryoko Hirosue

Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chosuke Ikariya

Owner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chosuke Ikariya

An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mitsuko Baisho

A near future not far from now. A couple who are tied with deep love with, Roku and Miyuki. Miyuki decide to freeze Roku had an incurable disease and...

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Cast: Nobuyuki Suzuki

Ren Takahashi and Aoi Sonoda were both born in 1989. They met for the first time at the age of 13 and became each other's first love, but they...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Masaki Suda

Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chieko Baisho

A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hironobu Nomura

Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon...

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Cast: Mitsuko Baisho

Comedy of two brothers working at a local governmental office.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kinichi Hagimoto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoto Takenaka

Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Takeru Satoh

Eiso Tsubaki, a former aristocrat, was suspected in a murder case in Ginza and committed suicide. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke, who is commissioned by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka

Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the...

Genre: War

Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

Six stories based on six songs, the first project of Cinema Fighters.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takayuki Yamada

"Blazing Famiglia" centers around a family of former teenage gangsters. Tetsu Hino (Yoshimi Tokui) was once the leader of the most feared motorcycle...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshimi Tokui

Romance story about the first female manager of the Nihon University Phoenix

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yasuko Tomita

Tsukasa Naruse works as a detective. He is enthusiastic with his job. To catch criminals, he sometimes breaks rules that detectives should follow....

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating subject. The huge tents and life-threatening...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masashi Sada

Despite working as a matchmaker, Sosuke is an awkward person. He works with Shion and they bicker over their different beliefs of love and marriage.

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Cast: Osamu Mukai

A documentary about the character created for a series of Japanese films starring Shintaro Katsu. There are behind-the-scenes interviews on the set...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Comedy centered on a stripper agency

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Mishima Kiko was exploited by her own family. When she was little, her mother neglected her. After her mother remarried, Kiko was abused mentally and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hana Sugisaki

A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi