BÚSQUEDA
Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real...
An Urban Affair
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
The Undefeated Woman
1962 Japanese movie
Hagure kigeki mandara
A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Long Way to Okinawa
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama
Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for,...
Inugami
A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Japanese cinema: Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano and Keiko...
Secret love
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...
A Japanese Tragedy
The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks...
Birth of Romance
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an...
Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...
Yaji and Kita on the Road
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
A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
Hito mo arukeba
A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.
Sincere Heart
The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.
Downtown Heroes
The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
Toilet Manager
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...
Samurai Saga
1958 Japanese movie
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Kigeki ekimae onsen
In the mountainous region of Koshu, Taikahara, there was an intense power struggle between the prominent families, Tamaki and Kakukura. Facing the...
The Brothers who Protect the Mountain
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
Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the actual amateur theater company...
Pretty Woman
Third film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.
Travels of Lord Mito Pt.3
Akikawa Reiko has been married for three years, has a banker husband and a seemingly happy married life, but has a secret side: she is a state secret...
Married Executioner R Mission 1: Bloody Mischief
Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular....
Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.
喜劇 駅前飯店
Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.
Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong
On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence....
元祿美少年記
Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko Tsushima), the second was Tsugumi (Keiko Awaji),...
Sisters
Wakai kisetsu
Hadaka no Machi
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
Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent...
Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant...
New Tokyo March
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...
Geisha in the Old City
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell...
Black River
1954 Japanese movie
Kyūkon sannin musume
Towa lives in a peculiar sanatorium after committing suicide. Convalescing in sanatorium, she is informed that she has only 7 days to live. Isolated...
Veronika Decides to Die
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
Always in My Heart Part 2
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945....
Always in My Heart
The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
Illusion of Blood
For Love and Money
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
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
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
A Woman's Life
In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...
The Other Woman
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
The Wiser Age
Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.
Green Light to Joy
A widower and his daughter deal with the death of the man's wife.
Mourning Recipe
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of...
Temptation on Glamour Island
A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.
A Brief Message from the Heart
Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral...
The Blue Beast
Kyuketsu Onsen e Yokoso (吸血温泉へようこそ kyuuketsu onsen e youkoso, translated as Welcome to...
Welcome to the Vampire Onsen
Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.
Acchan no bebi gyangu
Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.
3 Dolls and Baby Gang
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Stray Dog" (1949).
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog'
Princess Kinuta runs away from the palace because she doesn't want a marriage of convenience. Princess Kinuta, who has never left the palace, didn't...
The Princess of Badger Palace
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an...
Hoodlum Soldier
The Lord Pretends
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
Price of Beauty
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
This is a paradise of dream and illusion, a country of Raccoon Dogs. The Bat Tribe lives in a neighboring country took a young prince of Raccoon Dogs...
Quick Change Tanuki Palace
Set in decadent, chaotic Hong Kong and Tokyo, the film tells the story of a young woman caught up in a mysterious turn of events. A young tour guide,...
Hong Kong Paradise
The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but became star. First film in popular...
The Best Playboy In Japan
A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.
The Hotelman's Holiday
A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of...
Down Town
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the...
City of Love
#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to...
A Comedy: The University Around the Corner
Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but...
Hard Romanticker
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...
47 Ronin
Three for the Road
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
A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love...
The Flower and the Dragon
The rise to power of the famed Lady Kasuga no Tsubone, who established the 'Ooku' (the women's quarters at Edo castle) and acted as nursemaid to...
She-Shogun
Yasugorō shusse
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged...
Tora-san Goes North
The sequel to "Flowers and Dragons". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unites people with his courage, and revolts against...
Flower and Dragon: Duel of the Sea Caves
Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his...
The Lord and the Gambler
The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress of the gang boss. Despite the physical and...
Scarred Yosaburo
Comedy historical film about a wandering warrior, based on the novel by Shin Hasegawa.
The Adventures of Kantaro
Kureji sakusen: Kudabare! Musekinin
Sixth entry in the Company President Series.
社長太平記
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
Zoku shachōtaiheiki
The fifth entry in the Company President Series
The Third President
An entry in a series focused on "love" and "erotica," in which six creators from multiple fields - from film and TV to direct-to-video and manga -...
More wonderful night than usual
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?
Crazy Operation