Arata Shibata

When a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshio Hosokawa

In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Kumazawa mistreats Sokichi...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

Chie, who's chosen as 'Ms. Woman Diver', and her friend Yuki, have been missing for several days after they left for Tokyo to be interviewed by a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Michiko Maeda

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

In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the River Kitakami. At night, the villagers of...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

1957 crime film directed by Toshio Shimura for Shintoho.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eiji Wakasugi

1958 jidaigeki directed by Masaki Mori for Shintoho.

Genre: History

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tōru Yuri

Japanese film about a juvenile delinquent who becomes a part of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kōji Matsubara

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tōru Yuri

Japanese war film.

Genre: War

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

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

A work with the motif of a legend that remains in the mountain villages of Shinshu and Hida. A white snake helped by a young man transfers to a...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kinuko Obata

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

Once a wealthy local land owner, Toranosuke has long since fallen on hard times. Social ostracism befalls those who neglect communal duties and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ichirō Tsukida

Genre: Action

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

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

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Kenji Mizoguchi is credited as “supervisor” on this rare Japanese genre film, which stars the stunning Isuzu Yamada (Osaka Elegy, Throne...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

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

At the end of the Greater East Asia War, young Amada Koichi and his father were wrongfully accused as spy suspects and his father died in prison...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

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

Genre: War

Cast: Shin Saburi

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

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Cast: Shinpachirō Asaka

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Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a...

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Cast: Ryōji Hayama

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

A prisoner escapes from prison to find the real criminal.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masumi Okada

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

1959 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yaeko Wakamizu

A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's...

Genre:

Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

Genre: History

Cast: Hibari Misora

Genre: History

Cast: Hibari Misora

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

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Cast: Hiroshi Nawa

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kyōji Aoyama