The Crazy Family / Gyakufunsha kazoku (1984) Gakuryû Ishii, Katsuya Kobayashi, Mitsuko Baishô, Yoshiki Arizono, Comedy, Drama
The Kobayashi family finally get the chance to move out of their tiny, cram...
Tokyo Sonata (2008) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses ...
The Third Shadow / Daisan no kagemusha (1963) Umetsugu Inoue, Raizô Ichikawa, Hizuru Takachiho, Masayo Banri
A warlords’ retainer offers a farmer the chance to become a samurai, but he...
Entotsu no mieru basho / Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953) Heinosuke Gosho, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ken Uehara, Hideko Takamine, Drama
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of tw...
Shogun’s Samurai AKA Yagyû ichizoku no inbô (1978) Kinji Fukasaku, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Shin’ichi Chiba, Hiroki Matsukata
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he w...
Kunoichi ninpo: hyakka manji-garami / Female Ninja Magic: 100 Trampled Flowers (1974) Chûsei Sone, Junko Miyashita, Hitomi Kozue, Yûko Katagiri, Fantasy, Erotic
Acclaimed Nikkatsu studio pinku eiga filmmaker Chusei Sone directed this ac...
Monanieba / Repentance (1984) Tengiz Abuladze, Avtandil Makharadze, Ia Ninidze, Zeinab Botsvadze, Comedy, Drama
The villainous mayor of a small town in Georgia, Varlam (Avtandil Makharadz...
Minagoroshi no reika / I, the Executioner (1968) Tai Katô, Chieko Baishô, Yuki Kawamura, Sanae Nakahara, Drama
Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer’s machina...
The Revolt AKA Dôran (1980) Shirô Moritani, Ken Takakura, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Masakane Yonekura
When a young solider is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, ...
Yami no kodomo-tachi / Children of the Dark (2008) Junji Sakamoto, Yôsuke Eguchi, Aoi Miyazaki, Satoshi Tsumabuki
A Middle-aged Japanese ex-pat journalist investigates child organ trafficki...
Tokyo Profile (1953) Hiroshi Shimizu
A little girl named Michiko gets lost from her mom in the neighborhood of G...
Burst City (1982) Gakuryû Ishii, Michirô Endô, Shigeru Izumiya, Takanori Jinnai, Action, Music, Sci-Fi
Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group...
Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict AKA Kozure Ôkami: Sono chîsaki te ni (1993) Akira Inoue, Masakazu Tamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yushi Shoda
A noble samurai serving the Shogun as ‘Kogi Kaishaku-nin’ (Official Executi...
Shinjuku Mad AKA Shinjuku maddo (1970) Kôji Wakamatsu, Toshiyuki Tanigawa, Yûko Ejima, Makiko Harada
A man comes to Tokyo searching for his son’s killer. He ventures into the d...
The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark (1980) Charles Jarrott, Elliott Gould, Geneviève Bujold, Ricky Schroder
When Noah Dugan agrees to fly missionary Bernadette Lafleur and her cargo o...