BÚSQUEDA
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal...
47 Ronin
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...
Dodes'ka-den
1962 Japanese movie
Aru kankei
On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was...
Police Precinct Part 13
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...
Madadayo
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
The Crimson Sky
Industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also know in English as “Black Parking Lot”.
Lips of Ruin
Musume to watashi
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up,...
War and Youth
Hatano is living as an insomniac freelance typesetter alone in his bayside apartment. One day, Aikawa, a high school classmate he hasn’t seen...
Lie Lie Lie
A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching! Miyoshi Oki was born in Hokkaido and grew up...
Muchana Yakko
This is James Miki's first directorial work, and he is also the original writer and scriptwriter. Noritaka Sakamoto was in charge of photography, and...
The Political Game
After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job....
Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess of the bar calls him "the...
The Naked Executive
Director Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks...
Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns...
Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed suicide.
I, the Executioner
Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to...
Hiroshima
By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domen. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have...
Messengers to Satsuma
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...
My Hobo
The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
Toilet Manager
Police Precinct Part 12
Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals...
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Gokudo goes politics. Gray-haired Bin Amatsu has Wakayama assist a politician, meaning trashing the opponent. But of course the opponent has a pretty...
Fugitive Scoundrel
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now...
Tora-san's Lovesick
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.
Children on the Island
Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.
The Secret of the Telegian
Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for...
Kigeki ekimae bentô
Kyūjin ryokō
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst...
After the Rain
Saotome-ka no musume-tachi
A film by Katsumi Iwauchi.
Bravo, Young Guy
Yume de aimasho
A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.
Kokkai e ikô!
Wakai kisetsu
A political satire comedy depicting the turmoil caused when the residents of a small island in Okinawa, feeling neglected by the Japanese...
Goodbye Japan
Danchi fujin
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist...
King Kong vs. Godzilla
A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks...
The Human Vapor
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find...
Harakiri
Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
In the 16th Year of Keityo (1611), the lord of Ogura Castle in Kyushu admitted Sasaki Kojiro's because of his great sword techniques. However, a...
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
Takayuki (Takao Osawa) is an elementary school teacher in Tokyo. He is seized with Behçet's syndrome, and will gradually lose his sight. He...
Milk White
Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was...
It Is a Long Walk
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...
The Twilight Story
An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.
Happy Go-Lucky
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
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.
Foster Daddy, Tora!
Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but receives overwhelming support from her classmates when...
Friendship
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home...
A Story from Echigo
Tokyo Ninja Force
Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the help of his close friend Kinu, Ryuji must...
The Seven Chefs
The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the...
Broken Swords
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who...
Suspicion
In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously...
Assignment Dragon No. 3
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.
Island of Hell
Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one...
The Lovable Tramp
A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity...
High School Juniors (Part II)
Japanese sex comedy film.
006は浮気の番号
Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed left at the scene holds the answer to the...
Karate Cop 2
A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the work of Gaijin boss Brown and his henchman...
The Big Boss
A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.
Organized Violence
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...
The Maid Story
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 mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to...
Samurai Rebellion
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After...
Zatoichi Challenged
Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.
Blood on the Sea
Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out...
Shichinin no keiji
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his...
The Irresponsible Fool
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling...
Tora-san Loves an Artist
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
My Voiceless Friends
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...
Twice on a Certain Night
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his...
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
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,...
Tora-san Goes Religious?
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a...
Tora-san, the Go-Between
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the...
Tora-san Plays Daddy
The last judgment.
The Last Judgment
An appassionato art student and a dispassionate college girl make a vow, saying they would meet each other again in the Florence Cathedral after 10...
Between Calmness and Passion
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother,...
My Sons
Crazy Operation
When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they...