BÚSQUEDA
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...
Turbid youth
Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...
Striving to Live
Kitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the situation of drug trafficking around Yokohama.
Bodyguard from Hell
江戸忍法帖 七つの影
1962 Japanese movie
South Pacific Waves Are High
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old...
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen...
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
Hatamoto taikutsu otoko: nazo no sango yashiki
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find...
The Crucified Lovers
Otoko no Uta
湖愁
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But...
Taira Clan Saga
A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.
The Stand in Hakone
Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful...
Her Hidden Past
1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo
越後獅子祭
The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome...
Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
Shortly after the Meiji Restoration, young people devoted to the teachings of Saigo Takamori trained day and night at Seiyun Juku in Kagoshima,...
The tragedy of a young warrior
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
Gonin no totsugeki tai
In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they...
Princess Yang Kwei Fei
The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases,...
White Beast
1961 Toei comedy
Tale of A Company Boss Pt.2
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from...
Three Outlaw Samurai
The romantic struggles of three close friends who came back from the war.
Aru yo no seppun
Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa
The Man Without a Nationality
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
I Will Buy You
Kojiki taishō
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.
A Legend, or Was It?
In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.
Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil...
Kisaragi Sword
Kumoemon to sono tsuma
Ano hashi no hotori de
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
Spring Awakens
Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha
Pu Zhe , the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu Wen, marries Ryuko the daughter of a long-established aristocratic family - all in the...
The Wandering Princess
Hanran
Underneath Himeji Castle, Miyamoto Bensuke was determined to inherit the will of his late father, Shinmen Munenori, and aimed to become a great...
晴姿稚児の剣法
Chiba Sōsaku, whose childhood name was Otome, was raised by his father Yukiuemon, the successor of the Hokushin Ittō-ryū style, and...
若き日の千葉周作
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...
Ejima and Ikushima
Chushingura has been made into a movie several times before, but this time it will be presented in a widescreen version with all natural colors and a...
A Matter of Valour
Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?
The Man From Chungking
The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.
Satan's Sword: The Dragon God
1945 Japanese movie
Umi no tora
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
Nakamura Yukinojō, Edo's most popular actor, discovered that his parent's enemy, Ohara Genba, had changed his name to Isshiki Kurōnosuke...
涙の花道
Sugata naki teki
Unruly Lion
Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.
Jigoku bana
Ano hashi no hotori de dai 2-bu
Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi.
Black Weapon
When a theater producer Kurato is murdered in the audience on opening night, Inspector Kawano investigates the prop pistols used on stage, but all...
A Spectacular Murder
Waka zakura kenka matoi
Hell's Assassin
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
Fountainhead
A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.
A Samurai's Love
From birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast out of his peasant cottage, he would live by his wits,...
Taikoki - The Saga of Hideyoshi
紅顏鼓笛隊
Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
Yataro’s Travel Hat
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...
Wife
Film directed by Tadashi Ashihara
Akagi no komori-uta
Who Is the Criminal?
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love...
Gate of Hell
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima...
Secret of Naruto
Japanese war drama.
Yasen kangofu
1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.
Devil's Nursery Rhyme
A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con artists.
The Paper Crane
Fifth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki
Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Pfc. Story - The Divine Tempest
Sixth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Nitōhei monogatari: Banji yōryō no maki
First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines
ホラ吹き太閤記
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of...
Fires on the Plain
A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha and the Girl of Osaka
Japanese "kayo" film based on the song by Tsuzuko Sugawara.
北上川悲歌
Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period....
Street of Ronin
Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not commit.
Official with a Tattoo
Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land.
Black Thief
Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu, the...
Edo Purebreed
Yagyu Jubei proves his skills in this early adventure film.
Sword of Vision
In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles,...
The Third Shadow Warrior
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...
The Battle of Kawanakajima
The further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss.
Young Boss: Prison Release
Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi
Todoroki Sensei
Japanese comedy film.
Hattari Seinen Shinshi
[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all...
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a...
Shinsengumi Chronicles
A Thousand Flying Cranes
Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.
The Hidden Treasure
A musical romance.
Che, Che, Che with Love
Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate...
Bronze Magician
After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang.
Young Boss
During the Taiping Rebellion of the mid-19th century, anti-Qing (Manchu) Chinese forces led by Taiping commander Li Xiucheng march on Shanghai....
Signal Fires of Shanghai
Senka o koete
A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an...
Superexpress
Jirocho's Home-Coming
The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develop his own style.
Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut
Oichi no kata
When a group of men from the Hanya clan search his town for a missing geisha, a brave ronin decides to help her and a drunken calligrapher. In doing...
Street of Wandering Men
Chuji and his family become the primary target of gangs in Nikko headed by Hasshu marshal Nakayama and boss Sukegoro Iioka. Chuji is then aided by...
Keepers of Order
Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who runs an illegal gun trade.
Passion and Rifle Bullets
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
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her,...
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
Daiei Film Company's three biggest stars shine in this exciting story about Vice-Shogun Mito Komon's journey to the land of the Ainu. As the shogun's...
Mito Komon’s Journey to Ezo
Kirare no Senta
Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...
Actress
A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
The White Orchid
Youth of Heiji Senigata
Ken ni kakeru
Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
Yutaro kodan
Kayama Ichinoshin (Raizo Ichikawa) has been traveling for ten years in search of revenge for his father. One day, Ichinoshin reunites with his...
Flowers of Chivalry
Lord Tadanao
The film vividly shows the misadventures of Oishi Kuranosuke and the human dramas inside the castle, which lead to the surrender of Ako Castle after...
Castle of Revenge
Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Dedication of the Great Buddha
Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to...
New Snow
Mr. Lucky
Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.
Goblin Courier
Koina no Ginpei
Flowery Hood
The head of Oshu, Harumichi Honma, was ordered by the boat bugyo (Commissioner of the board) Tajima Kuze to extract five gold coins to the Shogun...
Den nana torimono jō bijo koumori
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...
The Samurai of Edo
Pro boxer Aoshima Toru is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and given three months to live. He uses his prize money to pay the medical expenses...
Melody of Crime
The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United...
Ōkuma Shigenobu the great
The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who...
A Grain of Wheat
Trigger Happy
The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at...
Honno-Ji in Flames