Basara – The Princess Goh AKA Gô-hime (1992) Hiroshi Teshigahara, Rie Miyazawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiya Nagasawa
Chronicles the trials and tribulations of Oribe, the successor to tea-maste...
Noisy Dynamite / Dainamaito don don (1978) Kihachi Okamoto, Junko Miyashita, Bunta Sugawara, Kin’ya Kitaôji
Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyushu Area in the summer of 1950...
Maria no Oyuki / Oyuki, the Virgin (1935) Kenji Mizoguchi
Oyuki, the Virgin is based on Kawaguchi Matsutaro’s adaptation of Maupassan...
Beijing Watermelon (1989) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Bengaru, Masako Motai, Yasufumi Hayashi
The film is based on true events. It centers around Shunzo, a popular green...
18 Who Cause a Storm (1963) Yoshishige Yoshida, Tamotsu Hayakawa, Yoshiko Kayama, Taiji Tonoyama
A shipyard worker gets an offer of free lodging in the company seaside rest...
Journey to the Shore AKA Kishibe no tabi (2015) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Eri Fukatsu, Tadanobu Asano, Masao Komatsu
Mizuki’s husband Yusuke drowned at sea three years ago. When he suddenly co...
Girl Boss 5: Escape from Reform School AKA Sukeban: Kankain dassô (1973) Sadao Nakajima, Miki Sugimoto, Yûko Kanô, Hiroko Isayama
Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform scho...
A Story from Echigo AKA Echigo Tsutsuishi Oyashirazu (1964) Tadashi Imai, Yoshiko Sakuma, Shôichi Ozawa, Rentarô Mikuni
Gonsuke has had to leave town to find employment and is working at a sake b...
2/Duo (1997) Nobuhiro Suwa, Eri Yu, Miyuki Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Nishijima
Yu, an employee at a clothing boutique, lives with Kei, an out-of-work acto...
The Thick-Walled Room / Kabe atsuki heya (1956) Masaki Kobayashi, Kô Mishima, Torahiko Hamada, Keiko Kishi
Among the first Japanese films to deal directly with the scars of World War...
I Am Keiko AKA Keiko desu kedo (1997) Sion Sono, Keiko Suzuki
Keiko Suzuki is a lonely waitress in Tokyo. Her father passes away of cance...
Yuki fujin ezu / Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950) Kenji Mizoguchi, Michiyo Kogure, Yoshiko Kuga, Ken Uehara, Drama, Romance
Young servant girl Hamako has just started working for her personal hero, M...
Naked Ambition (1970) Kazuo Ikehiro, Michiyo Yasuda
Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord (Tayu). The evil woman Ogin t...
Dead End Run (2003) Gakuryû Ishii, Tadanobu Asano, Urara Awata, Mikako Ichikawa, Action, Thriller
Dead End Run is an hour length collection of three short films by Japanese ...
