Hitomi Nozoe

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

Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo.

Genre: Music

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

Takes place in one place, a beer hall, over the course of one evening. Uchida employs this concentration of setting and time to fashion a microcosm...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Okada

Daiei Film Company's three biggest stars shine in this exciting story about Vice-Shogun Mito Komon's journey to the land of the Ainu. As the shogun's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

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

1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Danielle Darrieux

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Cast: Hitomi Nozoe

The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Ishihama

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Wakahara

A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

A young delinquent wants to avenge his sister from a college student who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce...

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Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause...

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Cast: Kenji Sugawara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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

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Cast: Keiji Sada

Koji Shima movie

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Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Nozoe

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

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 the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

1958 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō