Isao Tamagawa

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu"...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jō Shishido

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Toshiya Fujita

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A semi-autobiographical film about a young man from Tokyo who moves to Hirosaki in the early Shōwa era. A straight-to-video production made for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Tamagawa

A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Japanese crime film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jiro Tamiya

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jirô Ishizaki

Komori Tiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day in training her coach hits the ball into her eye accidentally. She is taken to hospital...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Nagisa Katahira

A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.

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Cast: Junko Natsu

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

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

A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kō Nishimura

Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsuneo Aoki

The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of motorboat.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruhiko Saigō

A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.

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Cast: Mariko Okada

Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

High school student Keiko struggles with the pressures of college entrance examinations and a chaotic home life, ultimately succumbing to alcohol,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aiko Morishita

In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jō Shishido

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Kishida

Genre: War

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Hidaka

A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoko Shiraki

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisano Yamaoka

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes,...

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employee, as she grows through work, love, and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chieko Matsubara

University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was no end to the violence. The tramp Satoshi Tsuzuki...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideaki Nitani