Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr

The Hidden Fortress

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a

Sanshiro Sugata

A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujuts

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a host

The Mysterians

In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire v

Zoku Hebihimesama

Forty-Eight Man

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

恐妻時代

An Edoite Judge

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

Four Seasons of Women

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

Yasugorō shusse

Japan's Longest Day

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

Operation Mad Dog

Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda

Home-Brewed Tatsu

1962 Japanese movie

Onna keizu

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

Attack Squadron

Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes

Snow Trail

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At

Beast Man Snow Man

Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Sn

Enoken's Mori no Ishimatsu

A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster

Man of the House

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wif

Chihō kisha

Utae! Seishun Harikiri Musume

Life Is like a Somersault

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's

The Human Vapor

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

A Man in the Storm

Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a k

Rebels on the High Sea

A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.

Subterranean Heat

Young Swordsman

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. O

Holiday in Tokyo

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

So Young, So Bright

Two high school girls, Ruri and Yumi, go to Kyoto on a school trip, here they get acquainted with Hi

Sasaki Kojiro

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Ota

I Believe I Am Being Followed

Follows the Japanese lieutenant of the invading 228th Infantry Regiment Toichi Wakabayashi, who died

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and

Mothra

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expediti

Frankenstein Conquers the World

During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan t

Mothra vs. Godzilla

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and

King Kong vs. Godzilla

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponso

Kantaro of Ina

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la

Ginza Cosmetics

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

Iron Brothers

It's been a long time since the war. Since we haven't been at war with America yet, there is a line

The Legend of the White Serpent

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

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

The Spell of the Hidden Gold

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Karayuki-san

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute

The Life of a Horse Trader

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmo

Love on Rainbow Island

Japanese counterpart to Romeo and Juliet

The Gambling Samurai

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has be

Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the

The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung

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

Sword for Hire

Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his l

Yagyu Secret Scrolls

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets wh

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

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

Daredevil in the Castle

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has

The Battle of Kawanakajima

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is th

Samurai Pirate

An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier,

Whirlwind

Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeat

The Maiden Courtesan

Period romantic drama.

The Giant

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Mi

The Skin of the South

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable

Rise Against the Sword

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight the

Horse

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to lo

The Youth and His Amulet

Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god

The Lone Journey

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie p

Brother and Sister

Ino tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a stude

Drifting

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

Shanghai Landing Party

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an und

Her Captive Gamblers

Jirocho Begins His Roving Life

Jirocho the gambler hits the road.

Lovetide

An Ishiro Honda film.

A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye

An Ishiro Honda film.

Chûshingura

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c

Blood on the Sea

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

Saga of the Vagabonds

Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokur

The Rickshaw Man

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die

Child of the Streets

The Opium War

The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in

All About Marriage

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, e

Jacks and Jills

The White Orchid

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

King Kong vs. Godzilla

When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for a

The Eagle of the Pacific

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grav

Their Father's Wife

Madame Butterfly

Japanese-Italian adaptation of Puccini's opera.

Kirare no Senta

Jakoman and Tetsu

In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inha

The Surf

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But S

Elegy

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony

Hideko the Cheerleader

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new

The Last Gunfight

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city o

Musashibo Benkei

A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musas

Story of Leadership

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is cur

Song of the White Orchid

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colon

Sky of Hope

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited marr

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

Tokyo Sweetheart

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are

Life of a Country Doctor

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and nov

Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu

Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells hi

Swords and Brocade

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

Swift Current

The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam c

Garakuta

1964 Japanese movie

Zoku izuko e

Sequel to "何処へ" (1966). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka.

むっつり右門捕物帖 鬼面屋敷

1955 Japanese movie

Bandits on the Wind

1961 Japanese movie

Elephant from "Zoo Story"

The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of

Tokyo Gate

Based on a serialized newspaper novel by Taijiro Tamura. People living in the darkness of the city,

Miai Ryokou

A chance ride in a car leads to an unforgettable relationship. A misunderstanding leads to more misu

Travel Stories of a Company President Part II

While on a business trip to Kyushu, a paint company president competes with a rival firm for a key o

Girls Behind Bars

A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths o

Irresponsible Life in Edo Japan

A comedy directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, based on an original idea by Koji Toita, co-written by Yasuo T

Ginza Tomboy

A rebellious heiress clashes with gangsters, dodges an arranged marriage, and unexpectedly falls for

A Sister's Promise

A family comprised of a father, mother and three sisters lives in a posh area. The father is a docto

One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds

1952 Japanese movie

The Human Condition

The Human Condition follows the journey of the well-intentioned, yet naïve Kaji who transitions from