Yoshiko Sakuma

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

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missing brother.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

After eloping with a prostitute named Otoyo, Hishakaku takes refuge in the Kogane family’s turf. Indebted to Boss Kogane for his kindness,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

"Genji Monogatari" focuses on the love and hate relationships surrounding Genji Hakaru. Lady Fujitsubo is Genji's first love. Ryokuzono Miyasutokoro...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Toma Ikuta

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating...

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Cast: Hibari Misora

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

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

The unexpected death of Fujishima Motoharu, president of a medium-sized firm, triggers a fierce battle over his estate inheritance among family...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eitarō Shindō

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eitarō Shindō

A story about the nature of office workers today.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

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

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Asano

A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

One of the most popular history-based characters is back when Magistrate Saemonojo Toyama no Kinsan investigates the tragic shipwreck of the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A story of Minako who struggles finding love and peace in life. When Minako’s hope for ultimate happiness, marriage to her beloved...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Upon his release from the prison, Hishakaku joins the Kikkyo family who is struggling to regain their turf from their rival, Domoto family. To...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Naomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange boy, Kirihito, under his wing. However, Naomasa is sent...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kei Tani

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his company.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Takakura

Japanese comedy film.

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

Japanese family drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

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Cast: Mocomichi Hayami

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the end of Japan's feudal age with the...

Genre: History

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on...

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alicia Vikander

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

The sequel to "Flowers and Dragons". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unites people with his courage, and revolts against...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

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

A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his father, the Shogun. However, his journey is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Ken Takakura

A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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

Movie directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda

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Cast: Hashizo Okawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Eitarō Shindō

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Cast: Naoto Ogata

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

1961 Toei comedy

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eitarō Shindō

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

1959 Japanese movie

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

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

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

Based on the Nobu Koito story

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

1961 gangster film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

One after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented boom in snow men, the public began to make a fuss...

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Kei Tani

1975 Toei movie.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Sonny Chiba's first martial arts film, a partially fictionalized judo biopic based on prominent judoka Shiro Saigo (Chiba), the second student of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Genre: Animation

Cast: Nana Mizuki