Michiyo Aratama

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

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse....

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masayuki Mori

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Fujita

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of...

Genre: History

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

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

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

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masayuki Mori

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

A Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency to investigate his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take over the family ribbon business in this family drama....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinsuke Maki

Film directed by Kenji Misumi.

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

These are the first two parts of the popular series in which a young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite...

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Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police...

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Sonejiro sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Izumi Yukimura

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Layabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He and his friends decide to form a cool rock band, but a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.

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Cast: Akira Takarada

U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan, gambling with U.S. servicemen in order to raise funds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tōru Abe

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...

Genre: History

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

In the first group of Yoshitake Ichi and Taketatsu Sada Preparatory Training, the team leader was Sou Adachi, a veteran warrior with strict training....

Genre: War

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yonetaro fell asleep after being kicked by a sick...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi promised...

Genre:

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

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Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroshi Koizumi

A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Shûe Matsubayashi movie

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two...

Genre:

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

1962 Japanese movie

Genre:

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

1962 Japanese movie

Genre:

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Part one of The Masterless 47.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Genre:

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

A Golden Age drama depicting the exploits of passionate patriot Uotaro Toge in the midst of a mysterious standoff over the Secret Book of Aoi, which...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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Cast: Frankie Sakai