Senkichi Ōmura

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Hiroshi Koizumi

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Tadao Takashima

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tadao Takashima

Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akira Takarada

Genre: History

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Kenji Sahara

After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akihiko Hirata

During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tadao Takashima

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Takarada

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an...

Genre: War

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

A film produced by Toho and Watanabe Productions as part of the Crazy Movie project featuring The Crazy Cats comedy group and jazz band members. It...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kei Tani

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroshi Koizumi

A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

An Ishiro Honda film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

An Ishiro Honda film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sister, Tamotsu seeks to win Masako's affection...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Keiko Sawai

An Ishiro Honda film.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chisako Hara

A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match...

Genre:

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Shingo Kubota

KENJI is here!” ...A boy with no semblance of control awakens to psychokinesis. Every time Kenji practices, neck-and-neck murders occur around...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Mr. Maric

1964 Japanese movie

Genre:

Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō II

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

1955 Japanese movie

Genre:

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi