Takeshi Katō

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his servants son is kidnapped

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Mortality and death seen through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His teacher, Koichi is also...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Terry Ito

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Kaga

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

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

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kō Mishima

August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gō Katō

A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sunghil O

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

Meet NIPPORI Ayumu, an 80 year-old man, who, due to a serious heart condition, has spent sixty years of his life confined to his house. One morning,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûsuke Iseya

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Various individuals named Ichiro undergo life-changing events while being inspired by the baseball player Ichiro. A heartwarming movie about the...

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Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

A blind female assassin lives alone in a remote house; her superiors occasionally send her "clients" / targets that she shoots right after having sex...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeshi Katō

Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process.

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Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rie Miyazawa

In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Tamala is a cat living on Planet Cat Earth in the Feline Galaxy. In attempt to leave the Feline Galaxy, which is practically owned by a mega...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Béatrice Dalle

This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jun Fubuki

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: Jiro Tamiya

The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sen Yamamoto

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kayoko Honoo

To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keanu Reeves

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Odin centers around the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on an historic interstellar test flight. They are...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Keiko Han

A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-san's behalf in a case of mistaken identity.

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Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

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

Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.

Genre: War

Cast: Takeo Chii

"You will die six hours later." Keishi, a youth who proclaims himself a seer, suddenly says this to Mio, who is walking along the streets of Shibuya....

Genre: Action

Cast: Takashi Tsukamoto

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the...

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Cast: Mayumi Ogawa

Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his mother throws her back out.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love with Hama-chan's fishing protégé.

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Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew joins Hama-chan's department at the company.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing.

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Cast: Miyoko Asada

Based on crime fiction novel written by Seicho Matsumoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of Omocha (Miyamoto Maki), a young girl who sees the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maki Miyamoto

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958).

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Masayuki Yui

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Lower Depths" (1957).

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Masayuki Yui

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "High and Low" (1963).

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Masayuki Yui

Based on the comic by George Akiyama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Juro Kara

Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yoshiko Tanaka

Based on the comic book by Tatsuo Kanai

Genre: Romance

Cast: Rei Matsunaga

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960).

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Masayuki Yui

The last judgment.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mikijiro Hira

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomomi Satô

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noboru Nakaya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kō Nishimura

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nagashima

A woman fears for the safety of her fiance after his three brothers mysteriously disappear.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kie Nakai

The plight of U.S. Army deserters from Vietnam on the run in Japan, centering on the culture clash between the troubled Americans and the Japanese...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keith Sykes

Genre: History

Cast: Atsuo Nakamura

In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treasure of the Toyotomi family, discovered in...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kō Nishimura

One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shoichi Ozawa

Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she learned...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.

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Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryoko Nakano

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Takaaki Enoki

By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shōhei Imamura

Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The...

Genre: War

Cast: Jun Hashizume

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The early days of the Tokugawa shogunate are brought to light in this exciting historical tale of broken vows and violent swordplay. In an ambush...

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment.

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Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers...

Genre: History

Cast: Mikijiro Hira

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

This was the first episode of Mushi Pro Land, a unique series of 60-minute animated programs. It was also Japan's first 60-minute animated TV...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Kazue Tagami

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kō Nishimura

A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shoichi Ozawa

TV movie based on the novel "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu, which tells about the life of Prince Hikaru Genji, who was nicknamed "Shining"...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noriyuki Higashiyama

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

Genre: History

Cast: Yatsuko Tan'ami

Approached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan's home seeking help. Hama-chan is away on a business trip, but...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his misbehavior during his short stay in Edo. On the...

Genre: History

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom over her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

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Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Chiaki Onoda a young assisstant sound mixer is unhappy with his job, but otherwise he is enjoying life. He loves his cat, his friends, hunting for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shingo Kazami

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jō Shishido

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Cast: Miyako Tasaka

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Television drama adaptation of the manga by Satosumi Takaguchi.

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Cast: Megumi Odaka

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shoichi Ozawa

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Cast: Keiko Takahashi

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Cast: Jiro Okazaki

When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons,...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world. He continues to...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Ren Osugi

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Cast: Jō Shishido

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and...

Genre: War

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jō Shishido

Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his legal adviser, for his daughters Matsuko,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch is away, a gang of villains is trying to take over...

Genre: Western

Cast: Jō Shishido

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mie Nakao

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head of the opposing lord to declare victory.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiyotaka Nanbara

Kaito is a university student who moved to the city because of its cheap rent. While killing time at home, a beautiful woman suddenly appears in...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Airi Natsume

Yokomizo, a police officer in the traffic police force, is looking forward to watching his son Kazuhiko grow up. However, Kazuhiko rebels against his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama