Etsuko Ichihara

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

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

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

After being deserted by her parents, 11-year old Miyori shuts her heart from the rest of the world and denies any form of human relationships. She...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Yu Aoi

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Young Horus lives in a mythical Scandinavia of the Iron Age. Recovering the stolen Sword of the Sun from a rock giant, he learns he must travel to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hisako Ôkata

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Japanese animation adaptation of a 19th century French novel: A boy is given up by his foster parents to a traveling performer.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Yukari Asai

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yutaka Mizutani

Miyo Hanayama works as a home care nurse, supporting the home care of patients who are close to death. Shigeaki Noguchi complains that his wife has...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Etsuko Ichihara

Iwabuchi of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division cooperates with Kubo of the Foreign Affairs Division in re-investigating the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Tanaka

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mariko Okada

Hearing that his friend Yosuke Tsumura had died, Shiro Okabe returned to Kyoto. He felt that Yusuke's wife, Yusuke Tsumura's former love Yuko, knew...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A family murder case that occurred in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. A murderer whose statute of limitations is about to expire is shown on TV, and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mie Nakao

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kirin Kiki

A poor village in the Tohoku area has a law that states when a resident becomes sixty years old, they must move to the place called Warabino, far...

Genre: History

Cast: Etsuko Ichihara

As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasushi Suzuki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

Kiri no Hi (霧の火) is a Japanese television drama which originally aired on Nippon Television (NTV) on August 25, 2008. Directed by Nozomu...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Etsuko Ichihara

In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes charge of the investigation...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kanô Miyuki

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chieko Baisho

The clerk of a trading company happens to have a large sum of money from his company in his possession. His girlfriend pressures him into fleeing...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Gō Katō

It depicts a few days in the life of a farmer's wife who takes her first vacation in Tokyo.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ayako Wakao

First live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuhide Haruta

This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûko Natori

1973 Toei movie.

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Cast: Naomi Shiraishi

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Cyborg 009 and his team are re-united to fight the latest menace from the Black Ghost. Before they can tackle their foe the team must overcome an...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroyuki Ôta

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki

Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being captured by Yakuza. His life is spared by Boss...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist Priest....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshio Shiba

Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kei Yamamoto

Izumi (Kento Hayashi) was abandoned by his parents. He now commits burglary, targeting women and the elderly. He is chased by the cops. While on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kento Hayashi

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Shinsuke Ashida

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 police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nagashima

Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

Genre: War

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

The story surrounds a boy and a cow who have always lived their lives together. One winter, a famine strikes their village. The villagers resolve to...

Genre: Family

Cast: Etsuko Ichihara

This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chōchō Miyako

In the past, a woman was raped by her brother-in-law. Keeping this dark secret, she lives a seemingly happy life with her husband and son, but the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Etsuko Ichihara

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shin Saburi

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Cast: Etsuko Ichihara

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Could I But Live

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

In front of Sagami Detention Center. Shosuke, the owner of a strip joint called "Shunpu Music," welcomes Okoma, a stripper who has been locked up for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Jutaro Torikai is a senior detective set to uncover the truth behind an apparent double suicide.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

The third film in the "Woman" series, based on the original work by Shinji Fujiwara, set in the Shinjuku Entertainment Company.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige