Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for

Turbid Youth

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa,

Three Faces

Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichir

Sanjuro

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull

Ninja, A Band of Assassins

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu i

High and Low

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s

The Adventures of Chuji

Chuji Kunisada runs into strange adventures which tests his skill as a samurai as he untangles intri

The Hill is Full of Flowers

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga

Evil Reward

After finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was sen

The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters w

Yasubei Nakayama

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge aga

新遊侠伝

新遊侠伝　遊侠往来

Koibito

The Man Without a Nationality

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

Sekidô matsuri

Bengawan Solo

War film by Kon Ichikawa

Stolen Love

Romantic melodrama

Wedding March

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

お洒落狂女

Love's Cheerleader

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido

A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

Forty-Eight Man

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

Beauty and the Thief

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and erot

恐妻時代

Today is Payday

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa

Riverside Fish Market Empire

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

Sunset Over Mount Fuji

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

An Edoite Judge

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

Farewell to Spring

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

Zoku jūdai no seiten

Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.

White Fish

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor

First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband

Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class w

The Age of Beginnings

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo

The Devil of Edo

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

When We Came Back

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

Duel in the Sun

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

Red Peony of Night

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious em

Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

Sanshiro of Ginza

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Four Seasons of Women

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

Oogonju

Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi

Endless Passion

The Samurai Markets

The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period.

Mannen Taro and His Feminine Colleagues

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind

The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The

Dotanba

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest

Giants and Toys

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in

The Man Who Stole the Sun

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on

Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman

Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involv

Samurai Assassin

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

The Human Bullet

A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedicati

Elegant Beast

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keep

Our Failures

Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love ad

Madam of the first class and husband of the third class

Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukik

I Will Buy You

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

The juvenile

A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and

The Thick-Walled Room

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

A Billionaire

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and group

Evil of Dracula

A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a d

Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha

1962 Japanese movie

Hiroi Ten

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his ki

Yellow Crow

Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home aft

As the Clouds Scatter

A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once

Red Lion

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo

Gakusei geisha koi to kenka

1962 Japanese movie

Magistrate Ooka’s Legends

A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic.

The Bogus Policeman

Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismi

Koko ni otoko ari

Chikuhō no kodomotachi

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

The Red Water

Comedy drama film

Pursuit At Dawn

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51)

Genkuro Yoshitsune

An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the pe

Oh, Bomb!

During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candida

A Roaring Trade

Red Flowers of Hell

1961 gangster film.

風雲児

Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical

Taiyō Sensei Seishunki

Movie directed by Kunio Matoi

Stray Dog

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded

Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten

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

Tsukiyo no kasa

Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a re

Fort Graveyard

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the las

Queen of the Treasure Island

At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of

River Without a Bridge

Brothers Koji and Seitaro Hatana, belong to the "outcast" caste. Despite their personal qualities—in

A Wanderer's Notebook

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook featu

Kaachan

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose t

The Day the Sun Rose

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which rava

Botchan

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Policeman's Diary

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on

Zenigata Heiji Detective Story: Heiji Covers All of Edo

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized

The Sand City in Manchuria

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save

The Boy Detectives Club – The Invisible Fiend

Seventh film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

The Boy Detectives Club – The No-Headed Man

Eighth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki

Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

For Love and Money

Tale of Japanese Burglars

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a bur

The Human Wall

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

The Lovers

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and

Mr. Pu

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

Nightshade Flower

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

Three Loves

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

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.

Eyes of Mother and Daughter

Japanese drama film.

Ninja in a Business Suit

An industry research director, Isomura, is killed in a suspected hit-and-run, but his employee, Hinu

Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies

[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weaken

Greatest Boss of the Showa Era

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yak

The Unbalanced Wheel

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

Sakura Official

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is ca

Chibusa o daku musume tachi

Japanese drama.

The Cock Crows Twice

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

Youth in Fury

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless m

The Funeral Racket

The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.

Time Within Memory

Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man w

The Refugee

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

His Scarlet Cloak

The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's

The Woman Champion

Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where s

The Ballad of Narayama

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food le

The Sea of Eden

Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys

The Scarlet Camellia

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the

Beast Alley

"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often d

Kakedashi keiji

The Days of Evil Women

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with

Scorpion

Japanese drama film.

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity

An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his compan

The Hidden Treasure

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.

Hot Corner Murder

Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.

Kanto Wanderer

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Dia

The Woman Who Touched the Legs

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her fr

Four Young Sisters

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home

The Burmese Harp

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himse

This Way, That Way

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has

Hurry on a Sail to Dream

Yuki cares for a sick old man Katakura who kept her mother as his mistress. Now she is the object of

I Was a Prisoner in Siberia

When the Flowers Bloom

Hiroko, who has a weekly magazine reporter as her lover is assigned as a public health nurse in a re

Echo in the Mountains

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "

A Case of Honor

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic

The Cast-Off

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executiv

The Big Ambition

Youth of Heiji Senigata

Forbidden Path

Evil of Dracula

A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a d

Ningen moyo

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.

Hot Spring Policeman

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag

Seishun wo warera ni

Hell's Juggler

Sanshiro Sugata

Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshi

The Blue Revolution

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

Teinen Taishoku

River Without a Bridge Part 2

Second part to "River Without a Bridge" (1969)

Japan's Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th

Mr. Lucky

Fools at Work

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

Reunion

If two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly wishe

The Valley Between Love and Death

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that i

遙かなる母の顔

The Rookie Managers

1955 Japanese movie

Umon's Detective Stories: The One-Eyed Wolf

ある落日

若い東京の屋根の下

Irohanihoheto

The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, colle

Hibi no haishin

Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. T

Barefoot in Blue Jeans

Coming-of-age comedy set in Yokosuka.

People Waiting for Spring

This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves w