The Precipice / Hyoheki (1958) Yasuzô Masumura, Kenji Sugawara, Fujiko Yamamoto, Hitomi Nozoe
Salarymen Uozo and his friend Kosaku plan to climb a mountain. A few days b...
Rhapsody in August (1991) Akira Kurosawa, Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa, Drama
An elderly woman living in Nagasaki Japan takes care of her four grandchild...
The Great Villains / Dai akutô (1968) Yasuzô Masumura, Jirô Tamiya, Kei Satô, Mako Midori
Psychological action drama about the activities of a corrupt lawyer.
Also K...
Owl (2003) Kaneto Shindô, Akira Emoto, Daijirô Harada, Mansaku Ikeuchi
Taking up the argument of ‘Onibaba’ (1964), the nonagenarian Director Kanet...
Kamikaze Taxi AKA Kamikaze takushî (1995) Masato Harada, Kôji Yakusho, Kazuya Takahashi, Mickey Curtis
A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfr...
Travelling Actors / Tabi yakusha (1940) Mikio Naruse, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kan Yanagiya, Minoru Takase
Story about a group of actors mostly based on the guys playing the horse.
A...
The Snow Flurry (1959) Keisuke Kinoshita, Keiko Kishi, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga
Set in a rural village in the Shinshu region, this melodrama about lovers o...
Nishi Ginza Station / Nishi Ginza ekimae (1958) Shôhei Imamura, Frank Nagai, Shin’ichi Yanagisawa, Hisano Yamaoka
This Japanese comedy is bookended by Frank Nagai’s title song, and Nagai ke...
The Eternal Sea (1955) John H. Auer, Sterling Hayden, Alexis Smith, Ben Cooper
Biopic of Rear Adm. John M. Hoskins, U.S. Navy. During World War Two, U.S. ...
The Last Bridge AKA Die letzte Brücke (1954) Helmut Käutner, Maria Schell, Bernhard Wicki, Barbara Rütting
A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wo...
Delinquent Girl Boss: Ballad of Yokohama Hoods AKA Zubeko banchô: Hamagure kazoe uta (1971) Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Reiko Ôshida, Yukie Gagawa, Shuushibo
The local yakuza gangs dominating the port of Yokohama do not take well the...
The Face of Another / Tanin no kao (1966) Hiroshi Teshigahara, Tatsuya Nakadai, Mikijirô Hira, Kyôko Kishida
A businessman facially scarred in a laboratory fire receives psychotherapy ...
The Wind Turns AKA Le vent tourne (2018) Bettina Oberli, Mélanie Thierry, Pierre Deladonchamps, Nuno Lopes
Pauline, a young farmer, raises her animals far from the modern world. When...
Maria’s Lovers (1984) Andrey Konchalovskiy, Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Keith Carradine
Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanese P...
