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Onibaba

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who

The Naked Island

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat

Shachō to onna tenin

Fifth Movement

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the

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

Ishimatsu of the Forest

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to

Hachiko

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

Drunken Angel

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculos

Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha

A gripping and entertaining historical drama that follows the actions of the thief Nezumi Kozo Jirok

Reminiscence

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel l

Kuroneko

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of

Good Morning

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generation

King of Pornography

Dumb Tatsuo Umemiya / Shingo Yamashiro comedy about a young bloke whose dick grows to inhuman dimens

The Ballad of Narayama

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a

Vengeance Is Mine

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha

Many persons visit the hot springs resort to try out Reiko's famous vagina with quivering walls, "th

I am the Judge

1962 Japanese movie

The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats

Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered,

Violence at Noon

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering

Dotanba

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

The Insect Woman

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe

Strong Women, Weak Men

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto

Today is Payday

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa

Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer

Rica wanting a fresh start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thin

Sixteen years old

Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton c

大吉ぼんのう鏡

Empire of Passion

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster becom

Foundry Town

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and on

My Second Brother

The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a b

Fruits of Passion

A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experi

Dynamite Doctor

Film by director Kenji Misumi

Drunken Harbor

Third film of the yoidore hakase series

Koina no Ginpei

1954 Japanese movie

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane,

Oiran

Ayame, a courtesan, attracts the attention of street vendor Kisuke and decides to run away with him

Evil Spirits of Japan

Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. W

Seasonal Wind

Shinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his admiratio

Children of Hiroshima

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

Edo Porn

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives w

Golden Partners

A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth

Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya

Fresh out of prison a manager of live sex shows decides to take his show on the road. He persuades o

Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby

Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But wh

The King

The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneduc

Human

The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people

Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!

In this sizzling escapade, three irresistible vixens—Dump, Hip, and Bump—deliver a daring, alluring

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes th

Muddy River

Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends

Attack at Daylight

A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of c

Three Resurrected Drunkards

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority w

快傑耶茶坊

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

Red Light District: Gonna Get Out

It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. A

Hell Riders in Kyoto

The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That make

The Castle of Sand

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To

Ballad of Orin

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world impos

Who's the Real Killer

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

Jazz Daimyo

Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out

Whistling in the morning

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

Yukyo-retsuden

A street vendor who eloped with his girlfriend and injured her brother loses her to illness, and now

Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene

The Iron Crown

A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple

Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa

Kazuko Shirakawa plays herself as a student who is scouted by a pink film producer. She leads a chao

Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama

The world of secret sex performers is shown through the lives of a husband and wife team. Their mana

The Key

A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law t

The Ceremony

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses rit

One Passed Through Hell

Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment

Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2

Housewife's Experience: Tenement

A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse

A sly gangster hatches a plot against his own wife, who works at a brothel-cum-bathhouse, with the h

East China Sea

Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of

My Way

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

Sisters of Nishijin

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

Love's Family Tree

The Desperate

A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths.

Sex and Fury

Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by u

Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow

A Ghost Love Story of Japan

A daughter of Hatamoto (high-ranked soldier) Otsuyu (Akiko Kana) and a Ronin living in Choya (cheap

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting

The House of the Sleeping Virgins

About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and h

Junko's Bliss

Thousand Cranes

April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton

Izayoi kaidō

Secret

Birth of a Jazz Maiden

Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has take

War and Flowers

Japanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.

Murahachibu

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections

Spring Snow

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries

Hageshī kawa

1962 Japanese movie

Eros Eterna

A woman believing to be a legendary immortal nun attracts people looking for answers to their life s

Song of a Traveller

A crime film released in 1962

幽霊列車

Eijanaika

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan

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

In the Realm of the Senses

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess

Child of the Sun

A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daug

Captive's Island

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was

Scandal

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a pain

Irezumi

To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate

Zegen

At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southea

Akitsu Hot Springs

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal s

The Bored Samurai

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) wh

Legend of the Eight Samurai

The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face

Ditch

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers.

18 Roughs

Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company

Day Dream

Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a young

Dear Summer Sister

14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in s

The Rendezvous

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

Black Rain

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his

Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department

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

Gate of Hell

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a vio

Nuclear Gypsies

Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area w

Hymn

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who

Silence

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Chr

Irohanihoheto

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

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. The

Stray Dog

When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later

The Little Runaway

During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upo

Policeman's Diary

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

The Wolves

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their w

Black Report

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for

Underwater Murder

The film marked Yōko Mihara's debut as the star of Shintoho's series of ama films, a role she took o

The Last Swordsman

Personal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era of th

Cape Ashizuri

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows t

The Far Road

Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film t

Nurse's Husband

“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But

Tetsugen

Japanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.

Night Drum

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return

Our Town

In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He s

Four Hours of Terror

Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror.

Before Dawn

Evil Spirits in the Darkness

The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period

The Heart

The relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to

On the Road

Model Reiko Higa is injured after being hit by a car pursued by motorcycle cop Tomishima. Tomishima'

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a geisha who was once involved with Kisuke's late fathe

Beyond the Green Hills

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was ag

Endless Desire

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher

An Innocent Witch

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her fat

The Human Wall

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

Dark Room

A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his lovers

Tomorrow Evening

Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face

River of Fireflies

During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classma

Harbor Rats

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller

Tokyo Pop

A young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish you

Story of a Beloved Wife

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno st

Conquest

Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to sedu

Tree Without Leaves

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his fi

The Kingpin of Fair Ladies

A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father,

A Story from Echigo

A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-

Love Lost in Tears

Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro.

Tokyo no Kodoku

A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rook

Street of Violence

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

A Woman’s Road

Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart an

Libido

aka Libido.

Hobo Village

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3

Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4

A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take

Location

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adapt

Great X

A 1948 Japanese film.

The Ball at the Anjo House

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion

Case of the Disjointed Murder

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitatio

Evening Primrose

The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a

Chibusa o daku musume tachi

Japanese drama.

The Shadow of Fear

In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation

Seisaku's Wife

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has

Season of Farewell

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

Wind, Woman and Road

A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the farmer

King of the Widow-Killers

The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night

The Lucky Status Symbol

Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touch

The Betrayers Out!

Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge

The Strangling

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that

Deeper Than Blue

About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging stru

Blind Devotion

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.