Shōji Yasui

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Tsukitaro, a young man who comes to Edo, meets a blind girl named Ochiyo. Ochiyo 's father, the grinder Yasujiro, was asked to sharpen a sword called...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

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

A mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl who does not know what a broken heart is, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruko Wanibuchi

Rampant ronin Matashiro Sasai, finds himself embroiled in serious unrest after he rescues a geisha who is being kidnapped by a group of ronin.

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

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Cast: Ken Takakura

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masayuki Mori

A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the concerns and aspirations of a high school student.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal, which takes place in Yokohama. Tamba...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

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Cast: Miki Mori

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and...

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

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Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Famed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the success of his directorial debut, Gekashitsu, with this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

He was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not last. In his uncle, Uzaemon in Kawashima, Yoshiji Akaji,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Crime film distributed by Taiho.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

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

In the fourth film in this exciting series, and the first since losing his left eye, Yagyu Jubei is charged again with the task of protecting the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jūshirō Konoe

Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

The film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A large-scale detective drama in which two newspaper reporters...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Keiji Sada

A princess seeks adventure and true love, with help from her loyal servant.

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Cast: Hibari Misora

The epic battles between the Heike and Genji (Taira and Minamoto clans) take centerstage as the defeated leader of the Genji, Minamoto Yoritomo...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Under a decree by the Shogun, people of all classes are forced to lead a frugal lifestyle. However, Omitsu, a woman who is thought to have gone...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized...

Genre: War

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

With the background of the Battle of Okinawa, he draws a semi-documentary image of each individual person under an unusual psychological state of...

Genre: War

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

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 story about a tomboy, Otoshi, who is good at singing, dancing and fencing.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hibari Misora

Reiko, a free-spirited college girl not bound by social conventions, ends up having an affair with an older, married man even though she already has...

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Cast: Mie Kitahara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

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Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...

Genre: History

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruo Mizuno

A pure love melodrama movie.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō I

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Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

Adaptation of Jirō Osaragi's novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Minamida

Japanese crime film

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Cast: Michiko Saga

A film adaptation of the popular hit by glamorous singer Keiko Matsuyama.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shōji Yasui

Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong Kong, where personal ties and painful...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Chang Mei-Yao

A home drama about a mother and her three daughters, based on the novel by Fumiko Hayashi.

Genre: Family

Cast: Michiyo Aratama