Harue Tone

With one million yen in stolen cash, Kurita plans his escape to Hokkaido with an unwilling bar girl named Katsumi.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Susumu Fujita

On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

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Cast: Ken Uehara

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa

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Cast: Hajime Izu

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

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Cast: Mako Midori

Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Yūji Hori

1954 Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Shūji Sano

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinjirō Ehara

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

1949 Japanese film

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Cast: Takako Irie

A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who co-founded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism) in 1957, Eizo Yamagiwa made...

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Cast: Kōji Matsubara

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūko Mochizuki

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

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Cast: Hiroshi Nawa

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

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

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Minamida

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Minamida

Japanese film.

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Sonny Chiba's first martial arts film, a partially fictionalized judo biopic based on prominent judoka Shiro Saigo (Chiba), the second student of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Nobuo Kaneko

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

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Cast: Ken Uehara

A beautiful and healthy young girl growing up in poverty overcomes hardships and grows into a woman in this deeply moving literary epic.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yōko Minamida

Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved in a robbery of precious diamond.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

A story of Minako who struggles finding love and peace in life. When Minako’s hope for ultimate happiness, marriage to her beloved...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

An early fantasy film starring Tomisaburô Wakayama.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

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Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The officer in command orders Lieutenant Uji to shoot...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their...

Genre: History

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Woman private eye Emiko goes undercover to reveal the truth of a murder case.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

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

Detective Morgan and the Japanese police cooperate to unveil the truth of the mysterious death of Morgan’s friend in Arizona.

Genre: Action

Cast: John Bromfield

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

The film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of an atomic bomb on humans for the first time in history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards a woman whose naive husband is driven to a debt...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Hanabu

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.

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Cast: Kinichi Hagimoto

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eitarō Ozawa

The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the American troops began landing on the Saipan island. On...

Genre: War

Cast: Akitake Kōno

An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Hiroshi Nawa

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geisha Hidekoma and Hidechiyo to entertain the...

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Cast: Sumiko Hidaka

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history of the Ming Dynasty, hokudai Yamashita, left the...

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Cast: Sessue Hayakawa