Women's Prison

A prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and tortu

Kwaidan

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

Gamera, the Giant Monster

A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep u

Zatoichi's Vengeance

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no ide

Sleeping Man

Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care f

The Lucky General

The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulg

Jungle Block

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

The Burmese Harp

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

High and Low

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ranso

An Actor's Revenge

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deat

Hitotsu no inochi

1962 Japanese movie

Epitaph to My Love

Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Ch

Otoko no Uta

1962 Japanese movie

The Pornographers

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society

The Abalone Gals

South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now,

Ken ni kakeru

Sixteen years old

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

Samurai Spy

Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutob

Mr. Baseball

Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career.

Dynamite Doctor

Film by director Kenji Misumi

Gunman's Alley

Nitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs but a

Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out o

Break Down that Wall

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Intimidation

Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a despe

Himiko

The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view o

Conflagration

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golde

Cruel Story of Youth

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for

Kigeki: Ohi Kaenasutte!

Her Brother

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

The Broken Commandment

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplat

Edogawa Rampo Theater: The Man Who Travels With Prints

At the beginning of the Showa era, a man who was captivated by a girl he saw through a telescope loc

Preparation for the Festival

Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.

Mount Hakkoda

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the wint

Watch Out, Crimson Bat!

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying

The Body

The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to he

Gonza the Spearman

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appear

A Legend or Was It?

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the

Lost Love

At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent famil

Being Two Isn't Easy

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of vi

Your Favourite

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.

Black Sea of Trees

Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car acciden

Hole in One

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the

For Kayako

A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kaya

Evening Primrose

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

Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip

Akira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who work at a pachinko parlour. Hiroshi is a ladies' man but alw

The Sun's Burial

In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitu

Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun

1962 Japanese movie

The Wild Reporter

Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed

The Forest of No Escape

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.

The Inferno

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mothe

Ai to kanashimi to

1962 Japanese movie

New Bad Reputation Continues

Bonchi

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed b

Bad Girl

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her

Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou

Fangs of Night

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friend

The Temptress and the Monk

A Buddhist monk becomes ensnared by a seductive woman who, according to legend, transforms her lover

Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp

Nishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear him

Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 1

This is the first volume of a ghost story TV series presented by Nobuo Nakagawa, Saburo Endo and Ter

Fūshinraishin

1962 Japanese movie

He's the Witness

Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chair

Main Theme

A kindergarten teacher meets a novice magician and together they travel to another city to find love

Red Lion

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

Punishment of a Lawless Villian

In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendshi

Anything For Success

A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His big

MacArthur's Children

In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must c

Koto—The Lake of Tears

A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, kno

Island of the Evil Spirits

Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 4 - The Yokai Blood-stained Comb

Fourth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

A Flame at the Pier

A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama

Dark Room

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

Ore no furusato wa dai seibu

George Mihara was ordered by his grandfather Tom to go to Japan. The purpose was to deliver a $100,0

Dai shusse monogatari

1961 Japanese movie

The Inheritance

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

Charming Men

One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tun

Stolen Pleasure

Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, thi

Horror of the Giant Vortex

Japanese horror move from 1978.

The Wolves

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

Cold Rice, Osan, Chan

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying

Play it, Boogie-Woogie

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, K

Tetsugen

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

The Battle of Okinawa

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

The Glamorous Ghost

Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor.

Edo Crime Book: Black Claws

Edo Crime Book: Black Claws

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

Odd Obsession

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot be

Fires on the Plain

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his comp

Kitsune

It is early summer in the Nekushiro Plains of Hokkaido. A scientist, Ogata, who was dispatched to th

A Mummy’s Love

In post-war Japan, a publisher goes to visit her former teacher for help on a modern translation of

The Tattered Banner

Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

Interpol Code 8

Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.

Green Light to Joy

Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to ent

The Catch

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese village

Ten Dark Women

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

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their l

Volunteering for Villainy

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.

Case of the Disjointed Murder

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

Blood-Red Water in the Channel

Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a bet

Our Marriage

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

Season of Farewell

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

Ame no meguri ai

Japanese drama film.

Tokyo Bay

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two

Deeper Than Blue

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

Time Within Memory

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

The Money Dance

Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, eve

Ohan

A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.

Samurai Reincarnation

After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring

The Black Current

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a

Village of Eight Gravestones

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries befor

New - No Longer Human

Based on the novel by Osamu Dazai and distributed by ATG. The story of a young man who is caught bet

The Man with a Shotgun

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stif

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchante

Lone Wolf Isazo

Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship a

Woman from the Sea

While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends

Love Is in the Green Wind

A youthful film depicting the sexual awakening of a boy who has just entered adolescence and his hea

Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction

A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have thei

A Killer Without a Grave

Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in hi

Lonely Heart

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to so

The Naked Woman and the Gun

A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a

Double Suicide

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the str

Faraway Tomorrow

Glory on the Summit

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

The Storm over Arabia

A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced e

Ginza Whirlwind: The Call of the Storm

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

That Guy and I

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, sh

Samurai Rebellion

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband

The Vampire Doll

A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her b

Samurai from Nowhere

Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of swor

Night Drum

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

Foundry Town

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

The Black Trademark

Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his

Without Complaint

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

The River - Poem of Wrath

A man sets out to search for his brother among the survivors of Hiroshima after an anonymous letter.

Traffic Jam

A hard working salaryman takes off five days from his busy job and sets off with his wife and two ch

Fighting Elegy

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelin

The Black Sheep

Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister,

Burning Nature

Film from 1967.

Koto: The Ancient City

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

The Gate of Youth

Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens

Child of the Sun

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

The Angry Sea

A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.

Lanterns on Blue Waters

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in or

Bitter End of a Sweet Night

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate th

Tora-san's Grand Scheme

After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii

August without Emperor

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese gove

The Makioka Sisters

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

Sakura-tai Chiru

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in th

The Strange Tale of Oyuki

A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seduc

The Demon

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their th

The Street Without Sun

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers

Woman of Design

Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutica

Sharaku

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publi

Demon Pond

When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in

Temptation

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art g

Lovers Lost

A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mis

The Stream of Youth

Gun Number Zero

Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was

The Castle of Sand

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

Crossroads in Tokyo

A three parts movie following people forgotten by a society that modernizes at the price of expellin

The Shadow of Fear

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

The Hall of the Crying Deer

Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi

Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo d

Yoake no hata matsumoto jiichirō Den

To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2

Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog s

Could I But Live

Could I But Live

Profound Desires of the Gods

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori cla

Japan's Longest Day

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

Afraid to Die

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on crimi

Across the Darkness

A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed dur

Love and Life

Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.

A Woman's Life

One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for f

Yume-Chiyo

Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something c