Flame and Women (1967) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Isao Kimura, Mayumi Ogawa
A sterile man arranges for his disapproving wife to receive artificial inse...
Lake of Tears / Umi no koto (1966) Tomotaka Tasaka, Yoshiko Sakuma, Katsuo Nakamura, Ganjirô Nakamura
A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Sak...
Both You and I (1946) Mikio Naruse
A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their bos...
Tokyo Drifter AKA Tôkyô nagaremono (1966) Seijun Suzuki, Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawachi
Tokyo Drifter stands with Branded to Kill as one of the best-known and most...
Blue Rain Osaka (1983) Masaru Konuma, Kiriko Shimizu, Saeko Kuga, Ryûmei Azuma
From director Masaru Konuma comes this tale of sorrow and nostalgia mixed w...
Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit / Kaibyô nori no numa (1968) Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Ryôhei Uchida, Kôtarô Satomi, Kyoko Mikage, Horror
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Takafusa Ryuzoji, seeking to gain powe...
The Island Tales (2000) Stanley Kwan, Takao Osawa
The story of seven people stuck on a remote island, quarantined by the gove...
Tamako in Moratorium AKA Moratoriamu Tamako (2013) Nobuhiro Yamashita, Atsuko Maeda, Suon Kan, Shôko Fujimura
Tamako graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her fat...
Night drum (1958) Tadashi Imai, Rentarô Mikuni, Ineko Arima, Masayuki Mori
When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese l...
Von Ryan’s Express (1965) Mark Robson, Frank Sinatra
Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous escape fro...
Street Mobster AKA Gendai yakuza: Hito-kiri yota (1972) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Noboru Andô, Mayumi Nagisa
A yakuza, who has an untamed rage and lack of respect for authority, finds ...
Pastoral: To Die in the Country AKA Den-en ni shisu (1974) Shûji Terayama, Kaoru Yachigusa, Keiko Niitaka, Masumi Harukawa
A young boys’ coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village be...
Carmen Comes Home (1951) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine
With no practical skills and being slightly scatterbrained, Kin Aoyama ran ...
The Sinners of Hell (1960) Nobuo Nakagawa, Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yôichi Numata
A graduate-school student has a friend who is pure evil. His friend and he ...
