Akira Nakamura

The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Utsui

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national...

Genre: Music

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

A painter leaves his family to paint the homes of his rich clients. A lonely, ruthless samurai falls in love with the painter's wife and rapes her....

Genre: Horror

Cast: Katsuko Wakasugi

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ichirō Ryūzaki

An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Kazuko Matsuo sings the theme song to this drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Utsui

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the...

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Director Teruo Ishi's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Utsui

1958 jidaigeki directed by Masaki Mori for Shintoho.

Genre: History

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

The last film produced by Shintoho.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūko Mochizuki

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...

Genre: War

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Takes place in one place, a beer hall, over the course of one evening. Uchida employs this concentration of setting and time to fashion a microcosm...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Utsui

In 1870's Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. She falls in love with a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsuko Wakasugi

A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Katsuko Wakasugi

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who co-founded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism) in 1957, Eizo Yamagiwa made...

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Cast: Kōji Matsubara

A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Two lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force does not...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shōzaburō Date

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason that consigns the innocent man to torture and...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shoji Nakayama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sadao Maruyama

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.

Genre: War

Cast: Shin Saburi

"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to Japan to visit her mother, but can't find her, so she...

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Japanese crime film

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Cast: Shoji Nakayama

Fictionalized retelling of the life of a Geisha poisoner.

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Cast: Katsuko Wakasugi

An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the Owari clan. Hibari Misora plays two roles: a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

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Cast: Ureo Egawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sadao Maruyama

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

The 7th Super Giant film. Super Giant battles a marauding alien brain-like creature created by a mad scientist and an alien army. (stand-alone...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Ken Utsui

The 4th Super Giant film, in which he continues his fight against the Kapia Aliens (Part 2 of 2)

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Ken Utsui

The 3rd Super Giant film, in which he saves Earth from the threat of the reptile-like Kapia Aliens.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Ken Utsui

Genre: History

Cast: Hibari Misora

Genre: History

Cast: Hibari Misora

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisako Yamane

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Japanese historical horror movie from 1957.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mako Sanjō