Jun Usami

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

The great Sonny Chiba stars as Goro Saionji, a drifting thrill-seeker. Out to investigate a suspisious plane crash in the Red Valley, he uncovers a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the hostile Shogun Satsuma. On his mission he meets a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kayo Matsuo

Young swordsman Shintaro must fight against evil officials who plot to overthrow the youthful Shogun.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Koichi Ose

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

To fulfill a friend’s dying wish, a young sailor Kenji takes on the task of delivering an heirloom to his friend’s daughter, Harumi, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

First Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Fumitake Ōmura

Second Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Genre: Action

Cast: Fumitake Ōmura

Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

Ninth and final film in the Boy Detectives Club series. Features Tatsuo Umemiya's film debut.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

A man with many disguises uses robotic beetles, man-made monsters and other devices to try and steal atomic power.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Eiji Okada

Seventh film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Susumu Namishima

First film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kôji Nanbara

Second film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kôji Nanbara

Eighth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Susumu Namishima

Japanese war film.

Genre: War

Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

Made after Takechi had won an obscenity trial over Black Snow (1965), the film has been called "Takechi's personal message to Eirin."

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamawa Karina

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

Tale of tragic love between samurai and princess during Heian period.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Japanese youth film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Fukasaku and Chiba are back in a sequel filmed with the same cast and released just two weeks after the first film. This time the storyline is set in...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of holding the weather trackers as hostages and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A 1948 Japanese film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Usami

Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.

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Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

A detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akihiro Miwa

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

In this film in the long running series, Tange Sazen and his friends are asked to guard a dragon-shaped incense burner that holds the key to hidden...

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Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.

Genre: History

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumental battle to determine their survival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Japanese mystery film.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Miura

Based on the short story The Psychological Test by Edogawa Rampo.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jun Usami

Early film directed by Eiichi Kudô.

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Cast: Sentarō Fushimi

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Yūji Hori

A boss of underworld helps the police crush an evil gang.

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.

Genre: Music

Cast: Chieko Baisho

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miki Sanjō

Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous way. Nakagami, the head of the Kanto Joseikai, is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

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Cast: Aiko Mimasu

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appears to be on the horizon after he becomes...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not commit.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Kotaro Satomi

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that she marries Takato Shunsaku, a man she has never...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Genre: War

Cast: Jun Usami

Genre: War

Cast: Masao Wakahara

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Cast: Hisako Tsukuba

The Domain: Severed Relations

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Cast: Ken Takakura

Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners.

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Cast: Jo Mizuki

Genre: Family

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

When Katsukawa, a low ranking vassal, learns that his greedy superior, Tatewaki, has hatched a plan to expand his territory, he and his comrades...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Fourth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Eiji Okada

Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Lord Mito, with his companions, comes to Sakai, Senshu, where the annual Minato Festival takes place. During the celebration, a mysterious incident...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jun Usami

A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Bunkichi disguises himself as a yakuza to solve a mysterious death.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hizuru Takachiho

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Cast: Mariko Okada

Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the period of his stay on Mount Kurama to his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

1954 Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Shūji Sano

During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After crushing almost all of his enemies, Date Masamune...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...

Genre: War

Cast: Martin Balsam

An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General...

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A film adaptation of the original novel by Kazuo Dan. This exciting film, set in Asia on the eve of violent changes, tells the story of a young man...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

A dead lover returns as a ghost

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jun Usami

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Jun Usami

The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between...

Genre: Family

Cast: Chieko Matsubara

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jun Usami

When a theater producer Kurato is murdered in the audience on opening night, Inspector Kawano investigates the prop pistols used on stage, but all...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jun Usami

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kotaro Satomi

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Cast: Hibari Misora

Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his legitimate wife, who died, and Yasunosuke, the son of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jun Usami

Ex-war financier Kuraishi Kinnosuke is visited by a ghostly face in the middle of the night telling him to return the 5.5 million yen jewel he stole...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jun Usami