Early Spring

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship

Kwaidan

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol

Night in Hawaii

The Yakuza

When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and Georg

The Makioka Sisters

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every y

Hunter in the Dark

Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gom

For Those We Love

In 1943, as Japan's WWII effort falters, a vice-admiral proposes training squadrons of "volunteer" f

The Mask and Destiny

Shuzenji Monogatari (The Mask and Destiny) is based on a 12th-century Japanese legend. An abortive r

Mastermind

Zero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called Chatze(sp?

Her Brother

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a s

I Will Buy You

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko

Lullaby to Kill

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police det

The Twilight Samurai

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century.

The Thick-Walled Room

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victim

The Inheritance

A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabout

Tora-san Loves an Artist

Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encount

Two in the Amsterdam Rain

Akira, a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam, falls in love with a Japanese woman at Schiphol Airpor

The Snow Flurry

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

The Garden of Women

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned do

The Rendezvous

The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part

Rififi in Tokyo

Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuab

Growing Up

A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.

治郎吉格子

Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man w

Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor

疾風からす隊

During the end of the shogunate, there was a group of black-clothed masked samurai known as the "Cro

お役者小僧 江戸千両幟

Okazaki Domain samurai Inaba Gotaro accidentally killed a superior while trying to save his beloved

Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu

1953 Japanese movie

A Dangerous Hero

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

Kyōshū

母恋草

Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove

Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

Snow Prince

10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They liv

Koto: The Ancient City

Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. Whe

Keiko Kishi, Eternally Rebellious

Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her decision

An Heir's Place

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh a

Flying in the Air

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.

Keiko and Yves Get Married

The wedding of actress Keiko Kishi and filmmaker Yves Ciampi.

Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

Queen Bee

To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's

Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival

The masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is it

Minami kaze

1951 Japanese movie

Always in My Heart

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during th

Here Is a Spring

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide

Always in My Heart Part 2

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

Always in My Heart Part 3

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again,

The Uninhibited

Vincent is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He enters in

Mother's First Love

A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and d

Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?

French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist

Noh Mask Murders

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will su

Ten Dark Women

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. Howeve

Three Loves

In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. H

Love Under the Crucifix

LOVE UNDER THE CRUCIFIX centers on the forbidden romance between Ogin (Ineko Arima), daughter of a f

Snow Country

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

I Lived, But...

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of f

The Refugee

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying

Kah-chan

Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth centur

Home Sweet Home

The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded priz

Typhoon Over Nagasaki

Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love bot

Honno-Ji in Flames

The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Ka

The Fossil

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a gli

The Den of Beasts

Haha machi gusa

Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day

Why She Won't Marry

Shikibu monogatari

Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial acciden

Doctor's Day Off

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off.

Songfest! The 3 Young Musketeers!

Saito Torajiro directed this light comic musical about the lives and loves of three cheerful, lively

For Those We Love

In 1943, as Japan's WWII effort falters, a vice-admiral proposes training squadrons of "volunteer" f

Yves Ciampi: The Adventurer

An atypical and little-known filmmaker, Yves Ciampi nevertheless left his mark on French cinema. Séb