Fusatarō Ishijima

Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Okada

An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, complained to the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Yūji Hori

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Satomi Oka

1959 Japanese movie

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

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Cast: Yūji Hori

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Cast: Shinji Hatâ

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Ken Takakura

During the Warring States era, Hozoin Kakuzenbo and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, being best friends, spend their days acquiring skills of the spear, sword...

Genre: Action

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

The fourth installment of G-men of Japan

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Ishiguro

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kieko Sawamura

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.

Genre: Family

Cast: Ineko Arima

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

Kimie, a traveling guitarist, performs at various inns at help out her sickly mother. One night while out with her mother, Otoshi, Kimie unexpectedly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hibari Misora

The lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war, Japan finds itself caught in the middle, and Tokyo is...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Japanese family drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinjirō Ehara

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his...

Genre: War

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shinjirō Ehara

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Hidaka

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Yūji Hori

Genre: Drama

Cast: Susumu Fujita

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

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Cast: Sonny Chiba

Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr. Matsukuma, although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tokue Hanazawa

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūji Hori

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

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Cast: Nobuko Otowa

When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history of the Ming Dynasty, hokudai Yamashita, left the...

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Cast: Sessue Hayakawa