Aki Takejo

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

Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori was an official selection at the 5th Shanghai International Film Festival...

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Cast: Kippei Shiina

A young woman aspires to be a motorboat racing champion.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiko Kuroki

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mitsuo Senda

Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Kunio Shibano was bankrupted. He visits a snowland spa area to commit suicide. But he meets Geisha Moeko, and she gives him power to face life one...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Eiji Okuda

Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.

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Cast: Yoshio Harada

Oshin comes from a family of poor rice farmers. Her father and brother must work in the fields and her grandmother and mother, who is expecting...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Ayako Kobayashi

A former assassin is drawn into a conspiracy which leads him to return to his old ways, endangering his brother who suspects that something is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshihiko Tahara

Six year old Momoko and Motoharu are turned suddenly into High school students. And more than that they have now psychic powers.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Momoko Kikuchi

Biwako is a vain, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder. Realizing that the very public life of the woman makes their sole witness...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

A high school boy with violent impulsive tendencies begins a troubled relationship with an older woman he sees at a funeral.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuki Nohira

Middle-aged farmer Noda Masao (Daichi Yasuo) is a good, honest man, but his attempts for marriage have all met with failure. Through a friend, Masao...

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Cast: Yasuo Daichi

After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisahiro Ogura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tamaki Funakura

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Takako Matsu

The comical battles between a handsome hoodllum, part-time handyman/problem solver and an ugly yakuza. (From a George Akiyama manga.)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koujiro Shimizu

A movie starring Meijin Takahashi, the God of Famicom. Based on the Hacchaki Sensei manga.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Takahashi

Katsuyo plans her last gang robbery.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûko Tanaka

With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the friendship between a man who gambles and a man who lives in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

If you loved movies such as Shonen Merikensack and GS Wonderland, then this one, which predates the former, will impress you as well. The story is...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kazunobu Mineta

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Cast: Naoko Ken

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Cast: Tetsuya Takeda

While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Miki Nakatani

Master director Sadao Nakajima brings to life the adventures of Shohachi, a ronin (masterless samurai) searching for his father's enemy. O-Tama, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chosuke Ikariya