Sumiko Hidaka

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mariko Okada

Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

1950s Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is about to be purchased by a client, steals money from...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Joji Oka

Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Hidaka

A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and betrayal inside the criminal underworld.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Tossing his hat in the air to pick a direction, Yataro the wanderer sets out on a journey of adventure, not knowing what tomorrow may bring. The son...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster boss in a crooked gambling casino it sets in...

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Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

First part of the famous Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy, based on Kaizan Nakazato’s unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jinpachi Nezu

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appears to be on the horizon after he becomes...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Ippei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that General Semyonov who has been exiled to Japan buried his...

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Cast: Seizaburō Kawazu

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as...

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Saga

A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Four thousand gold coins were stolen from the vault of Nijo Castle in Kyoto, which were collected as a tax to the shogun. The guard of Nijo castle...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

The sequel to "Flowers and Dragons". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unites people with his courage, and revolts against...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tōru Abe

The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers...

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Cast: Saburo Date

Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempts a self-righteous priest.

Genre: History

Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

Sixteen people are to stay at a desolate country station. Since a train accident during the war, a ghost train has been coming there at midnight. And...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

After finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was sent by his wife's cell and Kenmochi detective of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Third film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kōtarō Bandō

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...

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Cast: Hashizo Okawa

A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Genre: Music

Cast: Chizuru Kitagawa

A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

When a theater producer Kurato is murdered in the audience on opening night, Inspector Kawano investigates the prop pistols used on stage, but all...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jun Usami

In the 9th year of the Tempo era, after a long sea voyage, Moritaya Seizo returned to Hirado, who earned huge amounts of gold by piracy. Along the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's screaming...but there are no children staying in...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

1947 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō