Kikue Mōri

Lesser, but still modestly entertaining sequel. Wakayama is wonderfully bastardly here, but has to do without Chicago bros. Yamashiro & Watanabe and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

After killing the deceiver, the Masa gambler comes to Ina. There is a horse market in Ina, and the landowner Tamegoro, plans to steal the proceeds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kōkichi Takada

A film about the rivalry and friendship between firefighter Chоji and sumo wrestler Sokichi Fudoyama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima

The ascetic houseboy of a Japanese lawyer bears witness to the secretive sexual relationship between the lawyer's assistant and the maid, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saburo Shinoda

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Mieko Harada

On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague Ryunosuke felt responsible and...

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Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the...

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

1953 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kuniko Igawa

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

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A salaryman living alone in a small apartment is visited by complete strangers, a large family with grown-up sons and a daughter, who take over his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akiji Kobayashi

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the child, now a stable boy, is reunited with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Lampson

In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Sixth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her...

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Cast: Takako Irie

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Okada

The film depicts the exploits of Kindaichi Kosuke, who pursues a series of serial murders that occur one after another along with the terrifying...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A samurai warrior attempts to stop Kublai Khan's Mongol hordes from overrunning Japan in the 13th century.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded...

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ayako Wakao

In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumental battle to determine their survival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Two brothers, Takamaru and Kikumaru, are living with their father, Hakuraku-Ou, until one day Hakuraku-Ou is killed by "Death's-Head" Ginnosuke, a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kinshiro Matsumoto

Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth...

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Cast: Chikage Awashima

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing sensei has been murdered in the dead of night, he...

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators. This is...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kōtarō Bandō

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

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

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

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gorō Ibuki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tominosuke Hayama

Could I But Live

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jūkichi Uno

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Susukida

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).

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Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

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Cast: Susumu Fujita

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Junzaburō Ban