Hikaru Hoshi

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Set around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and tragic crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui)...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jiro Tamiya

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo.

Genre: Music

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A...

Genre: War

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Negami

Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

A lost film that tells a story of Jirokichi, a notorious thief

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Jirokichi the Rat is a notorious thief. While on the run from the law, he discovers an unexpectedly honourable side of himself, and maybe some form...

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Twelfth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

A young couple jump into the sea as part of a suicide pact. The man is rescued and subsequently discovers that his lover is also alive and working in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

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Cast: Aiko Mimasu

The film centres around junior high school students. They are members of the school's baseball team. They are very good. Izawa's father asks him to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ichirō Izawa

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

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Cast: Kakuko Chino

A ghost story about a woman who dies a violent death and appears to the man she loves as a vengeful spirit. This film marked the turning point in...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hikaru Hoshi

In a village in Manchuria, a group of Japanese settlers struggle against the elements to create wet rice paddies.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ureo Egawa

A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bontarō Miake

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Cast: Reizaburo Yamamoto

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Film adaptation of the hit song

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yamafuji Seiichirō

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Cast: Atsushi Watanabe

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Cast: Haruo Takeda

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

The picture tells of a tremendous conflict between ju-jitsu, an aggressive art practiced by vicious hoodlums led by Takamatsu, and judo, which is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sugawara

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

Futari no hitomi (二人の瞳, Futari no hitomi, The Eyes of Two People) a.k.a. Girls Hand in Hand (USA title) is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

A story about Kinsaburo Kamiya, who infiltrated the Satsuma clan at the end of the Edo period. Based on the novel "Satsuma Hikyaku" by Jiro Daibutsu,...

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A dead lover returns as a ghost

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jun Usami

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiro Tamiya

Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Order of Yakuza

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jiro Tamiya

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jun Nagasawa

Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?

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Cast: Teruyo Asagumo

Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Comedy drama film

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1947 Japanese movie

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Cast: Ken Uehara

In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao