Mantarō Ushio

An uproarious human-interest comedy about the love between a father and daughter of a good-natured sandwich man, set against the backdrop of the...

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Cast: Mantarō Ushio

A handsome and pure-hearted employee who thought he was single actually has a secret child. His girlfriend, a beautiful secretary, and the...

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Cast: Yoshirō Kitahara

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress of the gang boss. Despite the physical and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keizō Kawasaki

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukio Mishima

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Genre: War

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

A dead lover returns as a ghost

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jun Usami

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Koji Shima. The movie...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiko Taki

Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Order of Yakuza

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

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Cast: Katsuhiko Haida

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

Comedy drama film

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Keizō Kawasaki

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ken Utsui

Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Utsui

In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Romantic comedy about a love triangle between two girls who fall in love with a reliable young doctor.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yumiko Miyagino

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A...

Genre: War

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

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Cast: Kenji Sugawara

The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Negami

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

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Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Norihei Miki

One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido where he made his mark in history through...

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A ghost story about a woman who dies a violent death and appears to the man she loves as a vengeful spirit. This film marked the turning point in...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sugawara

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akihiko Katayama

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.

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Cast: Ryo Akaboshi

Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keizō Kawasaki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.

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Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.

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Cast: Jun Fujimaki

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

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Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bontarō Miake

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Cast: Koji Nakata

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Cast: Michiko Ono

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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Cast: Shirô Izome

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

A bride suddenly disappears from the wedding venue, and her boyfriend begins searching for her. Things get hectic around the two of them.

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Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Atsuko Kindaichi

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kenji Sugawara

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Cast: Fujiko Fukamizu

1960 Japanese movie

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Cast: Keiko Yumi

1958 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kenji Sugawara

A 1954 film.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Achako Hanabishi