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A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of...
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle....
The Insect Woman
A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been...
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
Won Jury's Special Award at the Turin International Film Festival of Young Cinema 1993
Just One Time
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
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing...
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity,...
A Fugitive from the Past
As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life...
She and He
1962 Japanese movie
Nokosa reta ko tonoko shita haha to
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.
A Billionaire
Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by...
Ofukuro
Ano hashi no hotori de
Ano hashi no hotori de dai 2-bu
Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an infant. Bunzo loves Keiji so much that he does every...
Song of the Spring Pony
Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of...
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
Comedy centered on a stripper agency
Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s...
Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
Hoshikuzu no Machi
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
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka...
An Inn at Osaka
Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress...
The Balloon
The story of a selfless mother and her family throughout the decades, from th 1920's to the 1960's.
Our Wonderful Years
Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker...
The Far Road
First live action adaptation of Keiji Nakazawa's manga.
Barefoot Gen
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
The Song of the Cart
Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.
親馬鹿花合戦
Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.
Family of Sorrow
Japanese crime film.
I'm Not the Criminal
Japanese drama film.
Madam
Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide....
Called to the Stand
Such is Life
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo.
Dare yori mo kimi o aisu
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...
Temptation
A demon-faced monster seeking revenge appears in the forms of a gigantic ox and a huge spider! The young Genji warrior protects the Fujiwara Clan and...
The Demon of Mount Oe
In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her...
The Maid's Kid
The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich...
Warm Current
A poignant entertainment epic about a righteous mountain man, a young company director with new ideals, and a beautiful woman with wild charm, whose...
Mehyō to Narazu Mono
A young Japanese woman comes to Peru to marry a man she has never seen in this somber drama highlighted by cultural differences. Her husband is a...
Bride of the Andes
Shishun no izumi
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
The Cock Crows Twice
Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male...
The Tomb & the Divorce
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
The Boy Who Came Back
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the...
The Black Current
Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.
Darkness at Noon
A Thousand Flying Cranes
Sukiyaki can be viewed two ways, a popular Japanese cuisine or a gathering of a family. This heart-warming comedy takes place in Yokohama, where the...
Sukiyaki
With the background of the Battle of Okinawa, he draws a semi-documentary image of each individual person under an unusual psychological state of...
Okinawa no Tami
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...
A Woman's Testament
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
This Madding Crowd
The Princess Says No
Seishun wo warera ni
A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.
To Your Majesty, The Emperor
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
Kawaii mendori ga utatta
The White Road Across the River
As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geisha Hidekoma and Hidechiyo to entertain the...
Geisha Hidekoma