BÚSQUEDA
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...
The Lovelorn Geisha
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
Based on the comic book by Tetsu Kusamoto.
Yokohama Bakkuretai
To Dance with the White Dog
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three...
The Funeral
Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and...
Sazae-san's Marriage
The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.
Ichi ka bachi ka
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
Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a...
Romance Express
Third film of the yoidore hakase series
Drunken Harbor
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.
Sazae-san Plays Cupid
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
Story of young love in the hills.
Beyond the Hills
When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and...
Desperado Outpost
A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
Hito mo arukeba
1962 Japanese movie
Ai no uzu shio
1961 Japanese movie
Sararīman yajikita dōchū
A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.
Dorobō Sodachi Dorobōi
Saotome-ka no musume-tachi
Layabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He and his friends decide to form a cool rock band, but a...
The Tempters: Smile After Tears
Neko no youni
Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten
Gekkyū dorobō
A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.
Okoge
A drama depicting the world of the female writer Midori Osaki in three parts: the dramatic creation of her masterpiece, "Wanderings in the Realm of...
In Search of a Lost Writer: Wandering in the World of the Seventh Sense
Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very bad manners. Moulin, Kakumaru's former partner,...
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
It depicts a few days in the life of a farmer's wife who takes her first vacation in Tokyo.
Onna no Kyūka
Satomi is young woman that works in computer communication. One day she receives a strange message. And the person that sent it to her has committed...
Monster Woman '88
A woman is being sexually assaulted by a pair of thugs, when out of the fog appear the High Heeled Cats – a trio of avenging angels, masked and...
High-Heeled Punishers
The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University" to Japan. You should defeat the master player...
The Black Gambler: Left Hand of the Devil
Japanese comedy film.
My Wife
The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his...
The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
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
Modern comedy, based on the popular manga.
Obon, The Moll Dipper
Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.
3 Dolls and Baby Gang
A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “good guys.” The father Nobuo, and his...
Then Summer Came
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...
The Big Boss
Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has...
Blueprint of Murder
Place your bets! Koji Himuro (Akira Kobayashi) is a makeout artist with unparalleled gambling skills. Shortly after his return to Tokyo, he is...
The Black Gambler
"Home Sweet Home" deals with a family who, unable to cope with their aging grandfather's worsening dementia, abandon him at a group home for the...
Home Sweet Home
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Explicit drama about a young woman who becomes involved with a group of college students who play "spin-the-bottle" and the women must make love or...
The Cola Game
An Ishiro Honda film.
Echo Mountain
Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will...
Crane
Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison. In prison Sangoro will have a new life
The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
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
This horror anthology is featuring nine independent episodes, each 30 minutes long, that are revolving around bad karma and terror.
Prayer Beads
The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh...
Noh Mask Murders
Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.
Actress
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a...
The Makioka Sisters
Three girls go on a trip after a friend commits suicide and learn about friendship.
Stay Gold
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of...
Tomorrow
In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into...
Westward Desperado
The Hall of the Crying Deer
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...
The Beast Shall Die
Ensemble comedy.
Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.
The Third Murder
This film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue, which tells the story of a comedian who teams up with a strange man he...
Comedy actors: Cooper and Gable
Kwaidan
A modern love story involving different affairs.
Someday I'll Know