Mitsuko Mito

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Like many women after the war, Toshiko works as a chorus girl; her boyfriend Tadashi wishes she'd join him more frequently, but she detests his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

The daughter of a Prime Minister turns down the proposal of a young teacher when she falls for the wrong man. Despite the continual degradation by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miyuki Kuwano

Pu Zhe , the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu Wen, marries Ryuko the daughter of a long-established aristocratic family - all in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Kuwano

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

Genre: War

Cast: Eitarō Ozawa

Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūko Mochizuki

Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Negami

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

Genre: War

Cast: Ken Uehara

A hostile Chinese nurse (Yamaguchi) who works in an orphanage is won over by the care and commitment of the Japanese doctor (Sano) who treats her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Japanese Warmovie

Genre: War

Cast: Masao Inoue

A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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

Sixth 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 humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

The story about the rise and fall of the famed mercenaries, Shinsengumi, who are hired by a crumbling feudal government.

Genre: History

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Contrast between two outlooks on life: one of a poor factory worker and the other the heir to millions.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kensaku Morita

Japanese suspense film.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

A 1937 Japanese film.

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Cast: Takeshi Sakamoto

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event...

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Cast: Akiko Koyama

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Koji Shima. The movie...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

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

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Otama, daughter of a poor candy vendor, becomes the mistress of a man whom she believes to be a widower and owner of a prosperous dry goods store....

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Japanese war movie.

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Cast: Mitsuko Mito

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Mihara

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

A family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on "Hibari no Circus Sad Kobato" starring Hibari Misora...

Genre: Family

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a lawyer. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Kuwano

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

Genre: History

Cast: Shin Saburi

Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.

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Cast: Jun Fujimaki

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Chuji Kunisada runs into strange adventures which tests his skill as a samurai as he untangles intrigue and murder against the backdrop of the...

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Genre: War

Cast: Toru Hirose

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained and indifferent. The story even has...

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Cast: Kaoru Futaba

Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu...

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Cast: Fumiko Katsuragi

Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper serial novel of Shishiko Shishi. Like in "Warm...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fumiko Katsuragi

Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

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Cast: Mariko Okada

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Cast: Takahiro Tamura

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Cast: Ineko Arima

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tadao Takashima

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

1948 Japanese movie

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Cast: Ichirō Ryūzaki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1939 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyôko Asagiri

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

Japanese war film.

Genre: War

Cast: Kazuko Aoyama

Japanese drama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima

1949 drama film

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

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Cast: Keiji Sada

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...

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Cast: Mariko Okada

A boy aviator endures rigorous training and a sad fate, and grows into a strong man with his eyes set on becoming an eagle.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Hayama

1958 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada