Judo Saga AKA Sugata Sanshirô (1943) Akira Kurosawa, Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki
Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, comes to the city to apprentice at a juj...
Kenjû zankoku monogatari / Cruel Gun Story (1964) Takumi Furukawa, Jô Shishido, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawachi, Action, Crime, Thriller
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time f...
Another Meltdown / Bi xie lan tian (1998) Wai-Lun Lam, Wenzhuo Zhao, Qi Shu, Andrew Lin
A patriotic Chinese cop is reposted to fictional East European country Lave...
The Days Between / In den Tag hinein (2001) Maria Speth, Sabine Timoteo, Hiroki Mano, Florian Müller-Mohrungen
Lynn (22) lives with her brother in Berlin. There she enjoys the advantages...
1941 (1979) Steven Spielberg, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams
Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. An as...
The Chivalrous Life / Kyokotsu ichidai (1967) Masahiro Makino, Ken Takakura, Sumiko Fuji, Minoru Ôki
This is yet another ninkyô yakuza film that seems to be (unconsciously?) tr...
Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown AKA Sukeban: Taiman Shobu (1974) Ikuo Sekimoto, Reiko Ike, Tsunehiko Watase, Ryôko Ema
Keiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the d...
Confessions Among Actresses / Kokuhakuteki joyûron (1971) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Ruriko Asaoka, Ineko Arima
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what...
Blackmail Is My Life AKA Kyôkatsu koso waga jinsei (1968) Kinji Fukasaku, Hiroki Matsukata, Tomomi Satô, Shinjirô Ehara
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki (Horoki M...
Bloodiest Flower / Nihon jokyo-den: ketto midare-bana (1971) Kôsaku Yamashita, Sumiko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Masahiko Tsugawa
The story of Tei, a female coalmine operator, who risks her life to protect...
Koroshi no rakuin / Branded to Kill (1967) Seijun Suzuki, Jô Shishido, Kôji Nanbara, Isao Tamagawa, Action, Crime, Drama
The number-three-ranked hit-man, with a fetish for sniffing boiling rice, f...
Chi to suna no kettô / Duel Of Blood And Sand (1963) Sadatsugu Matsuda, Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Jûshirô Konoe, Satomi Oka, Action, Drama
Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares...
Grass Labyrinth AKA Kusa-meikyû (1979) Shûji Terayama, Hiroshi Mikami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Keiko Niitaka
A young man’s determination to recover the lyrics and music to a song he lo...
Tokyo Twilight AKA Tôkyô boshoku (1957) Yasujirô Ozu, Setsuko Hara, Ineko Arima, Chishû Ryû
Two sisters live with their father. The younger sister is embroiled in an a...
Conflagration (1958) Kon Ichikawa, Raizô Ichikawa, Ganjirô Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai
Goichi Mizoguchi, an aspiring Buddhist monk who became involved in the temp...