Akemi Negishi

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Tadao Takashima

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother...

Genre: Action

Cast: Meiko Kaji

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Reiko Ike

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

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Meiko Kaji

During WWII, a group of Japanese soldiers are stranded on the remote Pacific island of Anatahan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akemi Negishi

An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote...

Genre: Horror

Cast: John Carradine

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A model gets involved with some gangsters trying to pull a big deal.

Genre: Action

Cast: Mari Atsumi

A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Toshiyuki Nagashima

Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akira Takarada

A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamotsu Hayakawa

Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meiko Kaji

Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while alone...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Tanaka

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshitaka Zushi

This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mari Atsumi

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A university student travels to a popular resort in the mountains for a summer job as a waiter and becomes romantically involved with an older woman...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miwa Takada

Sent to an institution for mentally handicapped children by his parents, he began creating artworks using torn strips of paper. After running away to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gannosuke Ashiya

An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yukiko Kuwahara

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

Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tonpei Hidari

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Pinku from 1971.

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Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and...

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Cast: Kō Nishimura

A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michiko Sugata

Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Toshihiko, a high school boy, hates Kozo, his father, enough to kill him. His mother had lived in terror of him and, at last, broken in spirit, she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miyako Yamaguchi

A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Yuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an ideal family life, at age 24, his wife has already run...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aiko Morishita

A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryūzō Hayashi

Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of her time balancing boyfriends and part-time jobs...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Momoi

Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who dedicates himself in providing quality service to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being...

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Cast: Ai Saotome

Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.

Genre: War

Cast: Yutaka Nakajima

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

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Cast: Akira Takarada

An Ishiro Honda film.

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Cast: Mitsuko Kusabue

A magazine reporter gets involved in a murder case while covering a rose nursery that's developing a blue rose.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Yuriko Ishida

Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial accident. He lives with his elderly mother and wife near...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Okuda

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

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Takarada

When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they...

Genre: Action

Cast: Michael Keith

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completing his sentence, he immediately takes revenge on...

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

TULIP (The Undercover Line of International Police) is a New York-based international police force in direct opposition to the criminal organization...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūsuke Kawazu

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akemi Negishi

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Cast: Yukie Kagawa

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century epistolary novel 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' is adapted to a contemporary setting. An abominable and burning...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masayo Utsunomiya

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Yamaguchi

A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diane Lane

Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Reiko Ike

Teenage film

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akiko Wada

Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the...

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert.

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habits such as stealing. Despite these flaws, she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige