Masahiko Naruse

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

Takeo (Kiniya Kitaoji), son of a wealthy car industry executive, is unhappy with his job and goes to Singapore to become a fisherman. At first...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

1959 Japanese movie

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kate Asabuki

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Cast: Maki Kawamura

This year's Record Award was decided to go to popular singer Natsu Akemi. Yoshioka, the president of the production company, was using money,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumi Hayakawa

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

The sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Fumitake Ōmura

Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Fifth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Genre: Action

Cast: Fumitake Ōmura

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

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroshi Minami

A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and...

Genre: History

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tōru Abe

A wife gets a call from a man claiming to be from her husband's company. He tells her that he will come to pick her up on his behalf. But when he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johnny Ohkura

French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist Richard Sorge, who was executed in 1944 after he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thomas Holtzmann

Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Teruo Yoshida

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Kaga

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

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Cast: Izumi Shima

A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to another. She dedicates herself to her...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kei Satō

Tobimaru is the young emperor of Japan. He meets a mysterious woman named Tomamo. After successfully seducing Tobimaru, she brings great misfortune...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Emiko Azuma

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

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaomi Kondo

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Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma