Taizō Fukami

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Susumu Fujita

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Enoken no wanwan taishô AKA Wanwan Taisho AKA Bowwow General directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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

Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Miura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Set in a rural area of Shinshu, a drama in which a woman who graduated from a women's college in Tokyo with her brother's efforts opens up a new life...

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Cast: Bandō Mitsugorō VIII

Ippei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that General Semyonov who has been exiled to Japan buried his...

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Cast: Seizaburō Kawazu

Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love...

Genre: War

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement,...

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Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Musical movie depicting adventures of Yaji and Kita (from the famous novel) in Kyoto and Osaka

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kajiya Morino

This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's...

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Cast: Entatsu Yokoyama

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Nobuo Kaneko

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Japanese action film distributed by Taiho.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shinsuke Maki

Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Takehisa

Japanese film.

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious...

Genre: War

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenzo Asada

The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of...

Genre: War

Cast: Susumu Fujita

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ennosuke Ichikawa

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinsuke Maki

Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kieko Sawamura

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a...

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Sasaki

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who runs an illegal gun trade.

Genre: Action

Cast: Seizaburō Kawazu

A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Itoko Kōno

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Hidaka

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koreya Senda

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yuji Odaka

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A man attacks the shogun, but does not succeed in his assassination attempt. He flees to the mountains and hides in a shed. There he finds an old man...

Genre: History

Cast: Setsuko Hara

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sadao Maruyama

Japanese war movie

Genre: War

Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Genre: Crime

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Japanese movie

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Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

1958 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hisako Tsukuba