Akira Yamanouchi

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

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.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Waiting woman

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Asagiri

In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Miyuki Kuwano

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideaki Nitani

Soft-Boiled Goro is a 1970 film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries....

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to consume pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akira Yamanouchi

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

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Cast: Kyōko Asagiri

Shuzenji Monogatari (The Mask and Destiny) is based on a 12th-century Japanese legend. An abortive royal romance leads to an escalating series of...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

A unique youth masterpiece depicting the awakening of male and female sexuality with a refreshing touch of the breath of youth.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Oka

Kazuhiko, a game software planner, resigns and decides to go independent after a trade secret leak to a rival company.

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Cast: Takaaki Enoki

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kato

A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Higashiyama

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Miyuki Kuwano

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jō Shishido

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mariko Okada

In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His...

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Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō I

Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters!

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Wada

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.

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Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

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Cast: Aiko Mimasu

Japanese war film.

Genre: War

Cast: Kazuko Aoyama

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Miyuki Kuwano

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Four henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They divide 1.2 million yen from Ryu's bag into 4 parts...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Keiko Orihara

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenament called the Ryuheiso.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

1956 Japanese movie

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Cast: Machiko Mizuhara

1956 Japanese movie

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Cast: Machiko Mizuhara

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsutomu Shimomoto

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...

Genre: War

Cast: Shirō Ōsaka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenzo Asada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Ōki

An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist Richard Sorge, who was executed in 1944 after he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thomas Holtzmann

Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream...

Genre: War

Cast: Isamu Nagato

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryōji Hayama

Filmed in a documentary style, six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ittoku Kishibe

Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading, middle-aged marriage.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

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Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the American troops began landing on the Saipan island. On...

Genre: War

Cast: Akitake Kōno

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...

Genre: Western

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

Genre: History

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

1956 Japanese movie

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Cast: Machiko Mizuhara

1956 Japanese movie

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Cast: Machiko Mizuhara