Aiko Mimasu

Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Part 5 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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roppa Furukawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

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Cast: Roppa Furukawa

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

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Cast: Aiko Mimasu

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Takada

A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The Sanzo Ikkou continues its westward journey, on a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aiko Mimasu

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aiko Mimasu

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in...

Genre: War

Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji...

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun and a gang of hoodlums, he must face the yakuza and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meiko Kaji

In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi restaurant decides to rise up again when he sees his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

A story about being scared of getting old.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aiko Mimasu

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler.

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

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Cast: Aiko Mimasu

A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aiko Mimasu

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he met Torajiro, a master of kendo, who had just left...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sachiko Chiba

While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nao Abe

An early Tōhō salaryman musical.

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Cast: Roppa Furukawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aiko Mimasu

A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa