Eiko Miyoshi

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

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

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

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiji Sada

Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

1958 Japanese movie

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student...

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Cast: Mieko Takamine

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Yamaguchi

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Cast: Isuzu Yamada

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

1950s Japanese comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

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

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tadao Takashima

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Yamauchi

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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

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

Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fumio Watanabe

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

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Cast: Shūji Sano

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

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Cast: Hajime Izu

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fubuki Koshiji

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Jirocho the gambler hits the road.

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Cast: Akio Kobori

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

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

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akiko Tamura

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Cast: Kamesaburo Bando

Genre: Music

Cast: Hibari Misora

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Sixth entry in the Company President Series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

1955 Japanese movie

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Keiichi, a man on the run after being implicated in a detective’s death, struggles to evade the police. As the investigation intensifies,...

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Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

The story of five sisters.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was finally about to get married as a result...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Tsushima