BUSCAR PELICULAS...
祭りだお化けだ全員集合!!
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever...
Onibaba
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
The Naked Island
Shachō to onna tenin
When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first...
Fifth Movement
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...
Turbid youth
Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi promised...
Three Faces
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
Ishimatsu of the Forest
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
Hachiko
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to...
Drunken Angel
A gripping and entertaining historical drama that follows the actions of the thief Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi during the Edo period.
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...
Reminiscence
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai...
Kuroneko
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells...
Good Morning
King of Pornography
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should...
The Ballad of Narayama
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
Vengeance Is Mine
Many persons visit the hot springs resort to try out Reiko's famous vagina with quivering walls, "the sensation of worms wiggling about"... that won...
Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
1962 Japanese movie
I am the Judge
Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
Violence at Noon
Dotanba - Last Minute
Dotanba
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle....
The Insect Woman
After a mine collapses and leaves her husband employed, Fumiko moves to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko and becomes a hostess.
Strong Women, Weak Men
Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa
Today is Payday
Rica wanting a fresh start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thinks as trouble always seems to find her. Rica's...
Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton club. Her father, Kinzo, remodeled her barn and...
Sixteen years old
大吉ぼんのう鏡
In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.
Empire of Passion
A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a...
My Second Brother
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.
Foundry Town
A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience to him...
Fruits of Passion
Third film of the yoidore hakase series
Drunken Harbor
Film by director Kenji Misumi
Dynamite Doctor
1954 Japanese movie
Koina no Ginpei
An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Ayame, a courtesan, attracts the attention of street vendor Kisuke and decides to run away with him to America. Unfortunately, a crazed tattoo artist...
Oiran
Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical...
Evil Spirits of Japan
Shinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his admiration for her. However, a harsh reality awaits him in...
Seasonal Wind
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...
Children of Hiroshima
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend...
Edo Porn
A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth of the Imperial Navy's gold, team up to salvage...
Golden Partners
Fresh out of prison a manager of live sex shows decides to take his show on the road. He persuades one of his former performers to join his troupe...
Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from...
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional...
The King
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate...
Human
Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing...
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.
Muddy River
A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.
Attack at Daylight
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action...
Three Resurrected Drunkards
1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.
快傑耶茶坊
It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya's (literally, the house that sells...
Red Light District: Gonna Get Out
The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That makes him unpopular, not only with the police, even...
Hell Riders in Kyoto
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
The Castle of Sand
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
Ballad of Orin
Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
Who's The Real Killer
Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents.
Jazz Daimyo
Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's...
Whistling in the morning
Yukyo-retsuden
Keishichō monogatari iryū-hin nashi
A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night.
The Iron Crown
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
The world of secret sex performers is shown through the lives of a husband and wife team. Their manager must contend with pesky customers and a...
Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law to sleep with her because the idea arouses him,...
The Key
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional...
The Ceremony
One Passed Through Hell
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
A sly gangster hatches a plot against his own wife, who works at a brothel-cum-bathhouse, with the help of the bathhouse owner’s wife.
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
East China Sea
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government...
My Way
A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.
Sisters of Nishijin
Love's Family Tree
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai (Oki Minoru) pursues Chiyo...
The Desperate
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and...
Sex and Fury
Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
A daughter of Hatamoto (high-ranked soldier) Otsuyu (Akiko Kana) and a Ronin living in Choya (cheap apartment) Shinzaburo Hagihara (Yoichi Hayashi)...
A Ghost Love Story of Japan
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old...
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
Junko's Bliss
April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts...
Thousand Cranes
Izayoi kaidō
Secret
Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by...
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
Japanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.
War and Flowers
A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections
Murahachibu
The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...
Spring Snow
Hageshī kawa
Eros Eterna tells the story of a legendary immortal nun who wanders around encountering several people of various conditions.
Eros Eterna
A crime film released in 1962
Song of a Traveller
幽霊列車
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...
Why Not?
Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry...
限りなき情熱
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual...
In the Realm of the Senses
A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daughter, Fuuchan. The movie depicts the warm...
Child of the Sun
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for...
Captive's Island
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
Scandal
To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro...
Irezumi
At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level...
Zegen
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal...
Akitsu Hot Springs
Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead...
The Bored Samurai
14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she...
Dear Summer Sister
Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its...
18 Roughs
Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a young woman are in a dentist's waiting room....
Day Dream
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...
The Ditch
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess...
Legend of the Eight Samurai
The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.
The Rendezvous
Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic...
Black Rain
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes...
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love...
Gate of Hell
Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon...
Nuclear Gypsies
The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel...
Hymn
Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.
Silence
The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out...
Irohanihoheto
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an...
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his...
Stray Dog
During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated...
The Little Runaway
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...
Policeman's Diary
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...
The Wolves
After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.
Black Report
The film marked Yōko Mihara's debut as the star of Shintoho's series of ama films, a role she took over from Michiko Maeda.
Underwater Murder
Personal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
The Last Swordsman
Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker...
The Far Road
1950s Japanese drama.
Cape Ashizuri
Japanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.
Tetsugen
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh....
Nurse's Husband
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially...
Night Drum
In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover...
Our Town
Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror.
Four Hours of Terror
Before Dawn
The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period, and the hurricane-like inner side of his life.
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
The relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to live both at a guest house. Both will be...
The Heart
Model Reiko Higa is injured after being hit by a car pursued by motorcycle cop Tomishima. Tomishima's supervisor refuses his request to apologize to...
On the Road
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...
Beyond the Green Hills
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during...
Endless Desire
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of...
An Innocent Witch
Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
The Human Wall
A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his lovers uses his affairs for the subjects of his novels.
Dark Room
Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face. She shows up at the elementary school and acts...
Tomorrow Evening
During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his...
River of Fireflies
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were...
Harbor Rats
A young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish you were here". She takes what little money she has...
Tokyo Pop
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko...
Story of a Beloved Wife
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his...
Tree Without Leaves
Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to...
Conquest
A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home...
A Story from Echigo
Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro.
Love Lost in Tears
A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rookie of the Year honors and love.
Tokyo no Kodoku
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Street of Violence
Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart and soul.
A Woman’s Road
aka Libido.
Libido
Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.
Hobo Village
A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take over a lucrative diamond mine business.
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved in a robbery of precious diamond.
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's...
Location
A 1948 Japanese film.
Great X
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...
The Ball at the Anjo House
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists,...
Case of the Disjointed Murder
The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam...
Evening Primrose
Japanese drama.
Chibusa o daku musume tachi
In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors...
The Shadow of Fear
On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of...
Seisaku's Wife
A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.
Season of Farewell
A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the farmers transporting gold to the governor think they...
Wind, Woman and Road
Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touched by) it, is blessed by good fortune. After...
The Lucky Status Symbol
The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night world. Hiroshi rose through the ranks in Tokyo by...
King of the Widow-Killers
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and...
The Betrayers Out!
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and...
The Strangling
About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to survive during and after the war with her...
Deeper Than Blue
Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.
Blind Devotion
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...
Time Within Memory
A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.
Mother
Tatsuhiko and Shofumi are hoodlums living in downtown Hawaii, having flown out of Japan and entered the country illegally for a reason. The two make...
Hawaiian Dream
In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied...
Internees of Kampili
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...
The Battle of Kawanakajima
Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The officer in command orders Lieutenant Uji to shoot...
The End of a Day
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s...
The Champion
Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.
Darkness at Noon
Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.
Hooligans on Buggies
After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her own and ends up working as a geisha at a hot...
The Revelation of a Geisha
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
Pigs and Battleships
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.
Love is Lost
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
Clothes of Deception
Natsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In the end, she’s pitted against a sexual...
Turtle Geisha
A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and...
The Start of Life
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially...
The Seburi Story
A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former...
Daughter of Time
Faraway Tomorrow
The man has a monotonous job punching tickets for the Japanese railway. One night, while walking home, he saves Jun from getting raped by two...
A Pool Without Water
A young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well to do family.
Did the Red Bird Escape?
Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women...
Stolen Pleasure
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic...
Kanto Wanderer
A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring,...
Lost Sex
Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr....
Fresh Leaves
BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a...
Yokohama BJ Blues
Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel.
Until Evening
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by...
Wait for Tomorrow
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect...
Intentions of Murder
Mr. Mito, a former president of an instant food company, with two young men’s help, solves the quality problems and wins a big ramen contract...
Tales of President Mito
Strange Affinity
Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the...
The Homeless
Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed...
The Young and Bad
A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing...
The School Cap
A 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for his immense contributions to Toho's Godzilla series by...
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
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...
Nippon no obaachan
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...
Tower of Lilies
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...
Miniature
High school student Keiko struggles with the pressures of college entrance examinations and a chaotic home life, ultimately succumbing to alcohol,...
The Fall of Teenager
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
The Boy Who Came Back
For a girl who works in a 3rd rate bar, Ayuko is full of vanity. Nomura, her patron, is besotted by her and it is their habit that they cannot reach...
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
Shiawase wa doko ni
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
The Gate of Youth Part 2
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...
Burden of Love
Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his...
The Irresponsible Fool
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an...
Love and Faith
Japanese drama film.
Nikoyon monogatari
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter...
Samurai from Nowhere
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her...
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist...
Tora-san, the Expert
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
The White Orchid
Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Who Will Judge Me?
Kiyohime, a daughter of Tokugawa Ienari is married-off to Tadateru Ogura, the lord of a Kyushu clan. However, the lord's sexual inexperience and...
The Erotomaniac Daimyo
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for...
Sakura-tai Chiru
Ai Sureba Koso
The Street Without Sun
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of...
Tomorrow
Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an infant. Bunzo loves Keiji so much that he does every...
Song of the Spring Pony
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...
Temptation
Kanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty...
On This Earth
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady,...
The Pornographers
Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his...
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Hobo General
A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.
Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Dedication of the Great Buddha
Yokubo
Knock Down
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
2 years ago, Kumi broke up with Shuhei and decided to forget everything about him for good. However, after being told that her younger sister, Junko,...
Onna no Iji
Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempts a self-righteous priest.
The Beauty and the Dragon
A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.
Kokoro no sanmyaku
Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises...
The Horizon
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...
Lucky Dragon No. 5
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
Actress
Violence
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.
Muhō Ichidai
The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than her fiancé.
Kiri ni Kieta Hito
Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
In 1945, a boy evacuated to Miyagi Prefecture befriends a local child, and the two begin to play harmonica near the local military base. Then, one...
Two Harmonicas