Akihiko Katayama

Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Ken Utsui

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

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Cast: Kogiku Hanayagi

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

The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car accident in Hamamatsu. Sachiko begins to trace her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junko Kano

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence....

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Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

In early summer in Edo, Sanshirō, known for his beautiful singing, is a devoted son living in a tenement with his blind mother Okura. He works as a...

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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

A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jun Usami

Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Haruko Sugimura

1956 Japanese movie

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Cast: Machiko Mizuhara

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

1956 Japanese movie

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Cast: Machiko Mizuhara

Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akihiko Katayama

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Nakata

The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Susumu Fujita

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Susumu Fujita

Japanese musical.

Genre: Music

Cast: Izumi Yukimura

In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Eiji Wakasugi

Japanese film.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jun Tazaki

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiji Sada

Horror film directed by Koji Shima.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Mikio Narita

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masayuki Mori

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Katsuragi

Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Japanese drama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō is actually Matasaburō, the wind sprite.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryuji Kita

"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Akaboshi

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masako Izumi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Utsui

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

A steel-clad fiend terrorizes Tokyo, raiding clock shops. Detective Kogoro Akechi uncovers a map hidden in a prized clock, leading to a uranium...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eiji Wakasugi

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Cast: Miwa Takada

Sanada Bunkichi, an alcoholic musician who had lost all motivation to live, was a man who seemed to be supported by the kind consideration of his...

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

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Cast: Yoko Minakaze