Tora-san 13 AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro koiyatsure (1974) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Sayuri Yoshinaga
After Torajiro’s latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts travel...
Abashiri Prison AKA Abashiri bangaichi (1965) Teruo Ishii, Ken Takakura, Kôji Nanbara, Tetsurô Tanba
Shinichi is a good guy serving three years and approaching the end of his t...
Haruka, Nostalgia AKA Haruka, nosutarujii (1993) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Hiroshi Katsuno, Hikari Ishida, Yôji Matsuda
A fantasy drama about a popular writer who returns to Otaru, his hometown a...
Home Movie (2001) Chris Smith, Ed Peden, Ben Skora, Diana Peden
Director Smith visits five unusual homes and talks to the people who built ...
The Sea and Poison / Umi to dokuyaku (1986) Kei Kumai, Eiji Okuda, Ken Watanabe, Takahiro Tamura
Downed American fliers in WWII are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in cruel...
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969) Nagisa Ôshima, Tadanori Yokoo, Rie Yokoyama, Moichi Tanabe
Story of a bookstore thief named Birdey who is led through various adventur...
Did You See the Barefoot God? (1986) Soo-Kil Kim, Tamotsu Ishibashi, Gen Kodama, Yoriko Dôguchi, Drama
In a small backwater in Northern Japan, self-assured Shigeru and shy Shinji...
Neo chinpira: Zoom Goes The Bullet AKA Neo chinpira: Teppodama pyu (1990) Banmei Takahashi, Shô Aikawa, Chikako Aoyama, Nao Asuka
Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru ...
Eko Eko Azarak: Awakening / Eko eko azaraku (2001)
A girl dressed in white stands alone in the woods, her hands smeared with b...
Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams (1970) Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Reiko Oshida, Masumi Tachibana, Yukie Kagawa
After a life in reform school, Rika (Reiko Oshida) tries her hand at becomi...
Appassionata AKA Jo no mai (1984) Sadao Nakajima, Mariko Okada, Yûko Natori, Morio Kazama, Kei Satô
Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader wh...
The Seburi Story / Seburi monogatari (1985) Sadao Nakajima, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Yumiko Fujita, Michiko Kohno
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the sub...
Gokuaku bozu nenbutsu sandangiri / Wicked Priest 4: Killer Priest Comes Back (1970) Takashi Harada, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Bunta Sugawara, Ichirô Nakatani
This tale begins as Shinkai runs into his childhood friend, Takagano (Ichir...
All Around Us (2008) Ryosuke Hashiguchi, Lily Franky, Tae Kimura, Masaaki Akahori
In 1993 Kanao and Shoko are a Tokyo couple awaiting the arrival of their fi...
