Kyoko Aoyama

After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Asahi Shoji's office girl, Aiko Tatebayashi, is a modern girl of Akira herself. The dentist's father has already cleared up his eldest daughter Keiko...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop,...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Rampant ronin Matashiro Sasai, finds himself embroiled in serious unrest after he rescues a geisha who is being kidnapped by a group of ronin.

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil...

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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Cast: Ken Takakura

The ordinary life of an executive’s wife is altered when she begins to attend a mysterious club that serves more than just tea.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Shima

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Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Mishima

Genre: History

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Jidaigeki by Tai Kato

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Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his legitimate wife, who died, and Yasunosuke, the son of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

A village samurai with money, power and great masculinity goes to the flourishing city of Edo to have some fun and practice. And here he is attacked...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Tatsuo Osone movie

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Murasaki Fujima

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The legendary one-eyed one-armed swordsman Tange Sazen is back to aid a Magistrate in his efforts to steal bribe money on its way to Edo for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Takarada

Umon’s services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Kayo and Minokichi, along with the ronin, Gontaro are mistakenly identified as...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

With flashing swordwork and a terrific story, wandering gambler Kusama Hanjiro inspires the wrath of Boss Jirotaro who has been terrorizing travelers...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Young swordsman, Tsukigata Hanpeita, longs for the day when rival clans cease their struggles for power and put an end to meaningless feudal wars....

Genre: Action

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: Action

Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

Toei’s 10th anniversary film, featuring an all-star cast from the golden movie era of the 1960s. A famous story of the 47 loyal samurai. When...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

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Cast: Shinji Yamada

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Detective Umon’s services are called upon when ronin Yaichiro is killed with a peculiar weapon, a stone wrapped in a towel.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.

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Cast: Akira Kubo

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Cast: Akira Kubo

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Under a decree by the Shogun, people of all classes are forced to lead a frugal lifestyle. However, Omitsu, a woman who is thought to have gone...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoko Aoyama

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoko Aoyama

The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

An Ishiro Honda film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Sugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and bad people.

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

Based on the exploits of real-life historical character Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan, this exciting tale brings the “Demon Magistrate” as...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Escaping the hustle and bustle of Edo, the Young Lord came to Oshima Island in Izu to take a vacation. Unexpectedly, the island's boss, Amimoto, was...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

One of Japan's most enduring stories is the true-life yakuza boss Jirocho of Shimizu and his gang as they took over the Tokaido Highroad and went on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A dashing edition with fights , love, and laughter, in which the sorrows and joys of the guiltless world are colored by the guiltless travel crow,...

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Cast: Ryūji Shinagawa

Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Through the relationship between a woman who has lost her husband and her brother-in-law who proposes to her, the complexity of the female psyche and...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Sawamura Sōjūrō IX

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

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Cast: Hideo Murata