Toranosuke Ogawa

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

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 Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Akira Takarada

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

Japanese war film.

Genre: War

Cast: Susumu Fujita

Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

Early pinku.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shoji Nakayama

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kokinji Katsura

The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Susumu Fujita

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Achako Hanabishi

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Nakahara

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

A cosmetics saleswoman falls for a rival executive.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hibari Misora

Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

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

During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Raymond Burr

Japanese suspense film.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

The rise of the famed gambler.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akio Kobori

Jirocho the gambler hits the road.

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Cast: Akio Kobori

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Cast: Akio Kobori

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Japanese drama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Izumi Yukimura

Genre: Music

Cast: Hibari Misora

The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa...

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoshirô Otani

Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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

A beautiful girl who seeks revenge, disguises herself by dressing up in men's clothes, geisha, etc. A young swordsman helps her uncover the plot and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...

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Cast: Chishū Ryū

Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Okada

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Lord Mito Mitsukuni, the vice-shogun of the whole country, left the family estate and went on a trip to various provinces with his students...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks...

Genre: Music

Cast: Izumi Yukimura

1950s Japanese comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop,...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

1954 Japanese movie

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Cast: Nobuko Otowa

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956), plus WWII newsreel...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Raymond Burr

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Haruko Wanibuchi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Harumi Yomo

Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Danshirō Ichikawa

A year 's date has flowed since Toyoshi Daikichi was driven out of Toyo Electric. In the company Okazaki's plan steadily progressed, a capital...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Based on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts.

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Cast: Mariko Miyagi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Toranosuke Ogawa