Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Ky

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal

Hachiko

The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even

The Betrayal

A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai princ

The Tale of Genji

Satsujin Kou Oku no Hosomichi

Sometime, Somewhere

The story follows Mamoru Masaki, a resort developer, and Koai, a career woman at a rival company. Th

The President Talks Bank

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher

Samurai Assassin

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakura

Morning Fog

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the

Pastoral: To Die in the Country

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescenc

The Great Passage

Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that

Kidnap Tour

Haru is a rather cool fifth-grade elementary school student who shares the same tastes as her mother

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

1958 Japanese movie

The Life and Love of Kenji Miyazawa

A biographical drama depicting the life full of love and suffering of the writer and poet Kenji Miya

With Beauty and Sorrow

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel

Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying h

The Human Vapor

A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes

Inu to Asachan

A daughter from an island in the Seto Inland Sea takes a job as a nanny in Tokyo. She thrills the he

Until the Break of Dawn

High school student Ayumi is trained by his grandmother to act as a "tsunagu," an intermediary for p

Settlement of Love

Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four

Dear Doctor

Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make a

Toad's Oil

The story of Takuro Yazawa, a day trader who claims he can earn hundreds of millions of yen in one d

The President's Boss

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's d

Epic Crash

Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes p

The Living Koheiji

The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to ge

Talk, Talk, Talk

The movie revolves around Mitsuba, who studies traditional art of rakugo. Rakugo is a form of comica

A Pierrot Praying for the Moon

Shizuru Tamai lives in a small mountain town in rural Japan with her mother and grandmother. Her gr

Flavor of Happiness

Yamashita Takako works in the food section of a department store. She pays frequent visits to a repu

Giovanni's Island

In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of S

Listen to My Heart

A radio DJ, Mai starts a new program called, "Love Letters from the Drawer" to assist people who nee

実録・小野田少尉 遅すぎた帰還

Army Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda (Nakamura Shido) has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the jungl

Gaku

Satsujin Kou Oku no Hosomichi

Blood Type: Blue

UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blu

The Legend of the White Serpent

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in lov

Mifune: The Last Samurai

An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most promi

Mr. Pu

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Stray Sheep

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Madame Butterfly

Japanese-Italian adaptation of Puccini's opera.

Temptation on Glamour Island

Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all

Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy

[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono

Hello, Baby

A young Tokyo couple’s blissful newlywed life is turned upside down when an unexpected pregnancy arr

Snow Country

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He con

Don't Lose Heart

Depicts the life of best-selling Japanese poet Toyo Shibata. Toyo Shibata first began writing poems

Four Days of Snow and Blood

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nati

The Sisters and I

Two sisters, Kyoko and Hisako, run a restaurant in Kyoto. But an incident with the latter's fiancé p

The Maiden Courtesan

Period romantic drama.

The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung

The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily

Only You Can Hear Me

Ryou is a girl isolated by everyone else in her class, she doesn't even have a cell phone because no

Tokyo Phoenix

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin

Three Moons

A sequel to "The Pierrot Prays to the Moon", which won the "Gold Medal Prize" at the Chicago Interna

Before The Leaves Fall

An elderly woman sets out to see in person a painting by a famous artist.She believes she was the in

A Samurai's Sorrow

A rare grouping of the three Tamura brothers, Masakazu, Takahiro, and Ryu highlight this exciting ta

The Domain: The Naniwa Story

Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The

The Princess Sen

During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with oth

Nuregami kenpo

Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker

1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.

Princess Finds Her Prince

Like Asura

The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a privat

The Last Game

After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Was

Traveling with Breeze

1953 Hiroshi Inagaki movie.

Bad Reputation: Invincible Notorious Men

A Bird of Africa

A group of kids find interest in birdwatching.

Negotiator

In this movie, Japan's top negotiator confronts a formidable foe threatening Tokyo's subways. As hig

Tabi sugata nezumi kozō

1958 Japanese movie

Saiyūki

Atarashii Sebiro

This movie depicts poor yet kind and modest people, focusing on sibling love.

Holiday in Tokyo

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, s

The Corporation

Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion o