The Great Duel AKA Dai satsujin (1964) Eiichi Kudô, Takayuki Akutagawa, Kôtarô Satomi, Chôichirô Kawarasaki
A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun’s...
The Empty Table AKA Shokutaku no nai ie (1985) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Mayumi Ogawa, Kie Nakai
This gripping docudrama is a fictionalized account of what could happen to ...
Kekkô Kamen 2: We’ll Be Back… AKA Kekkô Kamen 2 (1992) Yutaka Akiyama, Kenji Yamaguchi, Rie Nakano, Rie Kondoh
Mayumi and the other students are suspected of cheating and put in th...
Mujô / This Transient Life (1970) Akio Jissôji, Kotobuki Hananomoto, Akiji Kobayashi, Eiji Okada, Drama
Set around a remote Buddhist monastery, it features Masao, a young son of a...
The Drifting Avenger (1968) Jun’ya Satô, Ken Takakura, Ken Goodlet, Judith Roberts
Ken, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from Japan...
Bloody Territories (1969) Yasuharu Hasebe, Akira Kobayashi, Ryôji Hayama, Tadao Nakamaru
A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdow...
Tora-san 32 / Otoko wa tsurai yo: Kuchibue wo fuku Torajirô (1983) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Keiko Takeshita
When his travels bring him to Western Japan, Tora-san decides to pay his re...
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985) Macoto Tezuka, Shingo Kubota, Kan Takagi, Kyôko Togawa
In 1985, Makoto Tezuka, the son of manga genius Osamu Tezuka, was sti...
Ghost of the China Sea (1958) Fred F. Sears, David Brian, Lynette Bernay, Norman Wright, War, Drama
A ragtag group of survivors escape a Filipino sugar plantation overrun by J...
Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom AKA Tsuioku no dansu (2002) Naomi Kawase, Kazuo Nishii, Chizuko Nishii
The director agrees to film the last days of her chronically ill frie...
The Devil’s Ballad AKA Akuma no temari-uta (1977) Kon Ichikawa, Kôji Ishizaka, Keiko Kishi, Akiko Nishina
Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a rem...
Youth AKA Seishun (1968) Kon Ichikawa
“Youth” is about a nationwide baseball tournament among high-schools ...
Misono Universe (2015) Nobuhiro Yamashita
As a band plays for a crowd in a certain town square in Osaka, a youn...
Jûsan-nin renzoku bôkôma / Serial Rapist (1978) Kôji Wakamatsu, Kumiko Araki, Mayuko Hino, Kayoko Sugi, Horror, Erotic
Violent history in which a type bike dedicated to rape and kill everything ...
Ogin sama / Love Under the Crucifix (1962) Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ganjirô Nakamura, Drama
The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of...