Izumi Hara

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shiho Fujimura

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film - a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kantarō Suga

A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mizuho Suzuki

A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Toshiyuki Nagashima

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junkyu Moriyama

During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isako Washio

Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kaga

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Masato Furuoya

1978 Japanese film directed by Yoichi Takabayashi.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taeko Hattori

First Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Fumitake Ōmura

Second Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Genre: Action

Cast: Fumitake Ōmura

"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiro Tamiya

The 3rd Moonlight Mask movie from the 50s.

Genre: Action

Cast: Fumitake Ōmura

A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Takakura

A Young couple find a boad buried under a beach,and are taken to another world where they must face a Deadly cult who want to sacrifice them.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Hidaka

Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and his wizard friend Oroki-maru. The young prince...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

A young man from Kyushu,Adachi Futoshi had come to Tokyo to make a life. Adachi moved into a small room in a local boarding house, but he was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Hara

In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Saburo Tokito

Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Akagi

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

Genre: War

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chōchō Miyako

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

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Cast: Shizue Natsukawa

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kei Satō

One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons,...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the American troops began landing on the Saipan island. On...

Genre: War

Cast: Akitake Kôno

The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University" to Japan. You should defeat the master player...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Venice Film Festival 1939

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

Takeshi Nanjo, a junior lieutenant in the navy whose father, the head of the Nanjo-gumi yakuza family, was killed, is forced to leave the army and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sanshô Shinsui

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Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the...

Genre:

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Misako Watanabe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hatae Kishi