BÚSQUEDA
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...
Ikiru
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...
Turbid youth
Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi promised...
Three Faces
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...
Sanjuro
Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting...
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by...
High and Low
Chuji Kunisada runs into strange adventures which tests his skill as a samurai as he untangles intrigue and murder against the backdrop of the...
The Adventures of Chuji
A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro...
The Hill is Full of Flowers
After finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was sent by his wife's cell and Kenmochi detective of...
Evil Reward
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.
The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's...
Yasubei Nakayama
新遊侠伝
新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
Koibito
Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa
The Man Without a Nationality
Romantic melodrama
Stolen Love
Sekidô matsuri
War film by Kon Ichikawa
Bengawan Solo
Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa
Wedding March
Period film about the legendary detective Umon
Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth
お洒落狂女
A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido
Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
Love's Cheerleader
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
Forty-Eight Man
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...
Beauty and the Thief
Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa
Today is Payday
恐妻時代
Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi
Sunset Over Mount Fuji
Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki
Riverside Fish Market Empire
Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura
Farewell to Spring
Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
An Edoite Judge
Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.
Zoku jūdai no seiten
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...
White Fish
Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...
The Age of Beginnings
Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara
The Devil of Edo
A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Duel in the Sun
Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki
When We Came Back
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...
Red Peony of Night
An early film by Kon Ichikawa
Sanshiro of Ginza
Oogonju
Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda
Four Seasons of Women
Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi
Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain
Endless Passion
The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period.
The Samurai Markets
Mannen Taro and His Feminine Colleagues
Tenka no Kaidanji Senpû Tarô
Dotanba - Last Minute
Dotanba
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
Giants and Toys
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks...
The Man Who Stole the Sun
Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman
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...
Samurai Assassin
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as...
The Human Bullet
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover...
Elegant Beast
Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.
Our Failures
Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.
Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
I Will Buy You
A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers
The juvenile
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...
The Thick-Walled Room
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.
A Billionaire
A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a dark secret.
Evil of Dracula
1962 Japanese movie
Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha
A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.
Hiroi Ten
In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life -- presents...
Yellow Crow
A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil.
As the Clouds Scatter
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to...
Red Lion
Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic.
Magistrate Ooka’s Legends
Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while...
The Bogus Policeman
Koko ni otoko ari
A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines
Chikûho no kodomotachi
Comedy drama film
The Red Water
This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...
Pursuit At Dawn
An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the period of his stay on Mount Kurama to his...
Genkuro Yoshitsune
During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.
Oh, Bomb!
A Roaring Trade
1961 gangster film.
Red Flowers of Hell
Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a...
風雲児
Movie directed by Kunio Matoi
Taiyō Sensei Seishunki
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...
Stray Dog
Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie
Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
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...
Tsukiyo no kasa
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His...
Fort Graveyard
At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of the Benten family. When Mino's father, Kyohei...
素浪人百万石
River Without a Bridge
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...
A Wanderer's Notebook
Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.
Kaachan
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...
The Day the Sun Rose
1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Botchan
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...
Policeman's Diary
Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...
Zenigata Heiji Detective Story: Heiji Covers All of Edo
When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.
The Sand City in Manchuria
Seventh film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
The Boy Detectives Club – The Invisible Fiend
Eighth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
The Boy Detectives Club – The No-Headed Man
Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
For Love and Money
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
The Human Wall
Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.
The Lovers
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
Mr. Pu
Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.
Nightshade Flower
In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another...
Three Loves
An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.
Man of the World 2
Japanese drama film.
Eyes of Mother and Daughter
Ninja in a Business Suit
[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to...
Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.
Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
The Unbalanced Wheel
As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case...
Sakura Official
Japanese drama.
Chibusa o daku musume tachi
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
The Cock Crows Twice
A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the...
Youth in Fury
The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
The Funeral Racket
Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru...
Time Within Memory
A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite...
The Refugee
Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear for Shimizu and spends his vacation...
The Sea of Eden
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...
The Ballad of Narayama
The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's beauty attracts numerous would-be lovers among...
His Scarlet Cloak
Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
The Woman Champion
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the...
The Scarlet Camellia
"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." ...
Beast Alley
Kakedashi keiji
The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.
The Days of Evil Women
Scorpion
An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his company.
Man of the World
Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.
The Hidden Treasure
Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.
Hot Corner Murder
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic...
Kanto Wanderer
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very...
Four Young Sisters
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...
The Burmese Harp
An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly...
This Way, That Way
Yuki cares for a sick old man Katakura who kept her mother as his mistress. Now she is the object of his ugly desires. When she falls in love with a...
Hurry on a Sail to Dream
I Was a Prisoner in Siberia
Hiroko, who has a weekly magazine reporter as her lover is assigned as a public health nurse in a remote village. However, there is widespread...
When the Flowers Bloom
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...
Echo in the Mountains
The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's...
A Case of Honor
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...
The Cast-Off
The Big Ambition
Youth of Heiji Senigata
Forbidden Path
A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.
Ningen moyo
Hot Spring Policeman
In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin....
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Seishun wo warera ni
Hell's Juggler
Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo....
Sanshiro Sugata
The Blue Revolution
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Teinen Taishoku
Second part to "River Without a Bridge" (1969)
River Without a Bridge Part 2
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...
Japan's Longest Day
Mr. Lucky
A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.
Fools at Work
If two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly wished, and the two who cried under the harsh trials...
Reunion
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.
The Valley Between Love and Death