Anatahan (1953) Josef von Sternberg, Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma, Kisaburo Sawamura
In June 1944, twelve Japanese seaman are stranded on an abandoned-and-forgo...
Black Lizard / Kurotokage (1962) Umetsugu Inoue, Machiko Kyô, Minoru Ôki, Junko Kanô
Kurotokage (1962, aka Black Lizard) has its origins in a 1934 detective nov...
Outrage Coda (2017) Takeshi Kitano, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tatsuo Nadaka
Five years after surviving the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi ...
Bôhachi bushidô: Poruno jidaigeki / Boachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973) Teruo Ishii, Tetsurô Tamba, Gorô Ibuki, Tatsuo Endô, Action, Drama, Thriller, Erotic
Japanese cult movie guru Teruo Ishii directs this deranged, over-the-top ad...
Black Board / Burakkubôdo (1986) Kaneto Shindô, Terutake Tsuji, Nobuko Otowa, Kazuki Minabuchi, Drama
Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The p...
The Funeral AKA Osôshiki (1984) Jûzô Itami, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kin Sugai
At the beginning of the film the father-in-law of the protagonist dies unex...
Morning’s Tree-Lined Street (1936) Mikio Naruse
In 1936 Chiba Sachiko had her third starring role in a Naruse picture, in w...
Otôto / Her Brother (1960) Kon Ichikawa, Keiko Kishi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Drama
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama ...
Showdown at the Great Tone River / Doto no taiketsu (1959) Yasushi Sasaki, Utaemon Ichikawa, Chiezô Kataoka
One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this tr...
The River with No Bridge AKA Hashi no nai Kawa (1992) Yôichi Higashi, Naoko Ôtani, Tamao Nakamura, Tetta Sugimoto
Though ethnically and culturally identical to the average Japanese, the bur...
Wandering Home / Yoi ga sametara, uchi ni kaerô (2010) Yôichi Higashi, Tadanobu Asano, Hiromi Nagasaku, Sei Andô
War photojournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki So...
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A AKA 46-okunen no koi (2006) Takashi Miike, Ryûhei Matsuda, Masanobu Andô, Shunsuke Kubozuka
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy j...
Preparation for the Festival / Matsuri no junbi (1975) Kazuo Kuroki, Jun Etô, Haruko Mabuchi, Hajime Hana
A young Japanese man comes to the realization that he must leave his villag...
Rubber’s Lover (1996) Shozin Fukui, Nao, Norimizu Ameya, Yôta Kawase
Scientists use a brain-altering drug to conduct experiments, after one such...
