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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...
The Whisper of Spring
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Nigetekita hanayome
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
Late Autumn
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for...
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner,...
Tampopo
Futari dake no toride
Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
An Edoite Judge
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
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
Flower in a Storm
1962 Japanese movie
Zoku aizen katsura
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...
Flowing
A Roaring Trade
The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
Illusion of Blood
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the...
An Autumn Afternoon
The Estuary
The film adaptation of the famous tragic love story of the young samurai Shirai Gonpachi and the beautiful courtesan Komurasaki.
Shirai Gonpachi
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second...
Eros + Massacre
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He...
Floating Clouds
Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko
Yakuza bayashi
A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.
Bridge
Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles...
Tale of Scarlet Love
A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic...
Farewell to the Summer Light
Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man,...
Heroic Purgatory
In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had...
Affair in the Snow
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there.
Frozen River
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the...
A Story Written with Water
Kiriko no unmei
As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger men. After her mother passes away, she finds...
The Affair
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...
Spring Dreams
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...
Enraptured
Niizuma no shitatari
Love's Family Tree
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks...
Hunting Rifle
Ai to kanashimi to
Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by...
Impasse
A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
Woman of the Lake
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal...
Akitsu Hot Springs
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid...
Confessions Among Actresses
Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.
Women in the Mirror
Women of Tokyo
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...
Dancing Girl
In the 15th year of the Genroku era (1688), the world praised the 47 ronin who avenged the death of their master Asano Takumi-no-kami. Shogun...
Records of loyal vassals
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life...
The Scent of Incense
A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infected by pictures. People, once...
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.
Rebels on the High Sea
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a...
Proof of the Man
Ai no Noutan
Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to...
When It Rains, It Pours
Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and Greenery Department, plays love shepherd to a...
Wedding Season
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...
(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Husband and Wife
Based on Shinichi Mori song
Waterfront Blues
The wife of a famous resident of Kamakura awakens to carnal passion . . . And when her blood cools down it's because she's been murdered!
Hakuro no Shibijin
Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are...
I Am a Cat
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The...
Two Wives
1961 Japanese movie
Uzu
Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Bot-chan
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first...
Appassionata
"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems...
The Time of Reckoning
Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision...
The End of the Night
When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the pieces and carry on the legacy.
Domineering
Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.
The Lovers
An overview of the life and work of legendary Japanese filmmaker Kijû Yoshida, a notable figure of the Japanese New Wave.
Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a...
A Taxing Woman
Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic...
No Time for Tears
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have...
Farewell Rabaul
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
Sing, Young People
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both...
I Lived, But...
Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of Omocha (Miyamoto Maki), a young girl who sees the...
The Geisha House
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the...
The Fall of Ako Castle
A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming...
The Face
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...
Escape from Hell
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
Akane is the young mistress of Notoraku Inn in Ishikawa Prefecture. She is trained by her mother-in-law, Takako, daily. One day, as Yohei, Akane's...
The Young Mistress Plays Detective in the Spa Murder
Japanese romantic comedy film.
The Adorable Trio
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.
Cross-Currents
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...
Tokyo Omnibus
Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.
Hot Corner Murder
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...
The Radish and the Carrot
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known...
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
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
After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.
1750 Days of Turbulence
To Love and Forgive
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at...
The Lone Journey
Nami, the young madam of a well-established hot spring hotel in Kotohira, is reunited with her childhood friend Kana who has come to participate in...
Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide
An Ishiro Honda film.
Lovetide
When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed.
Japanese Humanity and Justice
Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight....
This Year's Love
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...
Women in Prison
Double Wedding
Scoundrel
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
Adolescence
My Wonderful Yellow Car
Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match...
A Man Among Men
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...
Girls in the Orchard
Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo...
Rainy Night Duel
Comedy of a phony doctor.
Price of Life
Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant...
Umi no Chizu
A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow,...
Morishige, where are you going?
Tōchō suru onna