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The story follows Benio "Haikara-san" Hanamura, who lost her mother when she was very young and has been raised by her father, a high-ranking...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Saori Hayami

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sawada

A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Takuro Atsuki

Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.

Genre: History

Cast: Arata Iura

The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junko Miyashita

The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toma Ikuta

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Benio, a peppy tomboy, is surprised to learn that she has been secretly betrothed by her grandfather to a young officer named Shinobu Ijuin. Because...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoko Minamino

Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and becomes obsessed with farming, jewelry and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

In the early 1920s, Yasuko, a budding actress, crosses paths with Chūya Nakahara, a young poet destined to be revered as a genius. Drawn to each...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Suzu Hirose

The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted children.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

Japanese crime film

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Cast: Hiroko Ogi

A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away from his hometown for 13 years, Ryuji comes back...

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

In August, 1918, Matsuura Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and three children. During the summer, there wasn't much fish to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mao Inoue