Striving to Live

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee

Turbid Youth

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

Pigs and Battleships

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup

Waiting Woman

Waiting woman

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee

Kawa wa nagareru

1962 Japanese movie

Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha

1962 Japanese movie

Useless Creature: Fighting Man's Life

Soft-Boiled Goro is a 1970 film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique

Godzilla vs. Hedorah

An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to con

Iki na fûraibô

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

The Mask and Destiny

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

Confession of a girl: The Forbidden Fruit

A unique youth masterpiece depicting the awakening of male and female sexuality with a refreshing to

Unmei no gyakuten: Nusuma reta kigyô himitsu!

Kazuhiko, a game software planner, resigns and decides to go independent after a trade secret leak t

The Sands of Kurobe

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for th

Ryuji's Journey: The Crest of Man

The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood.

Whistling in the morning

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illnes

I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki

A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with a

My Way

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her hu

At the Side of the Bridge

1962 Japanese movie

Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung A

Last Round

1962 Japanese movie

Ai to kanashimi to

1962 Japanese movie

Hana no shôgai

In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was

Quick Draw Sanshiro

Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangster

Hiroi Ten

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

母山彦

Navy

Japanese war film.

At the Side of the Bridge 2

1962 Japanese movie

Tattooed Life

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger

Shadow of Intimidation

Four henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They divi

限りなき情熱

Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustl

Temptation

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his

The Paths of Two Maidens

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.

The Battle of Okinawa

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imp

The Woman Who Holds the Key

Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuhe

こゝに幸あり・後篇 花咲く朝

1956 Japanese movie

こゝに幸あり・前篇 誘惑の都

1956 Japanese movie

Apostasy

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visit

The War Without Weapons

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which wa

The Ghost of Iwojima

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper rep

Before Dawn

Street of Violence

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chie

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete

The Face

A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth

Wind of Volcano

An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from

Glory on the Summit

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of

Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?

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

Destroyer Yukikaze

Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook'

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his cond

Jungle Block

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon

Dying at a Hospital

Filmed in a documentary style, six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await d

The Sting of Death

Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading,

Thirst for Love

A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructiv

The Hidden Profile

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Inte

Children of Hiroshima

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the s

Phoenix

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

Ginza Whirlwind: The Call of the Storm

The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.

Shadow of Love

Miniature

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha

Song of my Life

A Case of Honor

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

The Last Women

The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the America

The Guitarist and the Rancher

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-

Tenchu!

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the rut

Onna no issho

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant

The Hill is Full of Flowers

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

Yoru no chōsen-sha

1961 Japanese movie

The Summit of Mt. Fuji

The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoo

Midori naru hito: kōhen ai no honryū

1956 Japanese movie

Midori naru hito: zenpen wakare no yogisha

1956 Japanese movie

Door of Flowers

Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now f

Ai, sono kiseki

1964 Japanese movie

Doing What I Please

Koichi Haruyama, who works at the Morita Automobile Factory, was driving a convertible through Ginza

At the Side of the Bridge 3

At the Side of the Bridge 4

Gubijinsô: Maboroshi no ai ni hateta murasaki no onna!

The Bullet Train

A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows

Rambling in the Wind

Set in Toyohashi, the fifth and final installment of the ‘The Wanderer’ series sees Kobayashi Akira