Muddy River AKA Doro no kawa (1981) Kôhei Oguri, Takahiro Tamura, Mariko Kaga, Nobutaka Asahara
Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Os...
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man with the Karajishi Tattoo (1969) Masahiro Makino
Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After ...
Gray Sunset / Hana ichimonme (1985) Shunya Itô, Yukiyo Toake, Minoru Chiaki, Teruhiko Saigô, Yumiko Nogawa
Gray Sunset is a 1985 Japanese film directed by Shunya Ito. It was Japan’s ...
The Incident / Jiken (1978) Yoshitarô Nomura, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinobu Ôtake, Toshiyuki Nagashima
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, h...
Narayama bushikô / Ballad of Narayama (1958) Keisuke Kinoshita, Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki, Drama
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village wher...
Tokyo Rose (1946) Lew Landers, Byron Barr, Osa Massen, Donald Douglas
An American prisoner-of-war in Tokyo, manages to escape and hooks up with t...
The Man Without a Map AKA Moetsukita chizu (1968) Hiroshi Teshigahara, Shintarô Katsu, Etsuko Ichihara, Osamu Ôkawa
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. Contradicto...
Thousand Cranes / Senba zuru (1969) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Machiko Kyô, Mikijirô Hira
The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher...
A Mother Should Be Loved (1934) Yasujirô Ozu, Yûkichi Iwata, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Den Ohinata
The film tells of the strained relationship between a mother and her two so...
Giants and Toys (1958) Yasuzô Masumura, Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to...
Admiral Yamamoto / Rengô kantai shirei chôkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (1968) Seiji Maruyama, Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Adm...
This Window Is Yours AKA Kono mado wa kimi no mono (1994) Tomoyuki Furumaya, Yukako Shimizu, Hideo Sakaki, Toshio Kamiaki
Teen love before it’s consummated at the sexual activity. Six kids spend th...
Dopperugengâ / Doppelganger (2003) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kôji Yakusho, Hiromi Nagasaku, Yûsuke Santamaria, Comedy, Fantasy, Thriller
Hayasaki is an inventor working on an Artificial Body. It is not going well...
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 2 (1966) Kiyoshi Saeki, Ken Takakura, Ryô Ikebe, Yoshiko Mita
A yakuza have to to kill a guy out of obligation. When he gets out of priso...
Postwar History of Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970) Shôhei Imamura, Chieko Akaza, Etsuko Akaza, Tami Akaza, Documentary
The star of this documentary is a quintessential Imamura heroine: a hard-no...