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Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales...
Dolls
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!...
Tora! Tora! Tora!
In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to...
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...
The Bad Sleep Well
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by...
High and Low
Night in Hawaii
Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she...
Phoenix
Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various...
None But the Brave
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.
The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...
47 Ronin
A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.
Cell No. 8
Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda
Operation Mad Dog
The fifth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Outpost of Hell
The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima
Ant Hell War
1962 Japanese movie
Doburoku no Tatsu
Rebel Against Glory
Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom...
Adventure in Kigan Castle
Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda
The Witness Killed
The 1965 Japanese yakuza film is the last episode of the Ankokugai series.
Ankokugai zenmetsu sakusen
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in...
The Storm of the Pacific
Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.
The Weed of Crime
A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.
Sincere Heart
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained...
The Heart
Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has...
Blueprint of Murder
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....
The Thin Line
Ai no uzu shio
Rival bands of pirates try to get hold of a priceless treasure.
Mermaids and Sea Robbers
Three WWII veterans, reunited by family circumstances, quickly find their life savings threatened by a private corporation; they band together to...
Not Forgotten
A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.
Sisters of Nishijin
Yoru no keisha
Love's Family Tree
A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks...
The Human Vapor
In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His...
Hana no shôgai
母山彦
Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they...
The Mad Atlantic
Part one of The Masterless 47.
The Masterless 47
Crime film released in 1969
The Resurrection of the Beast
A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines
Chikûho no kodomotachi
Intelligence director Suritai asks agent Kitami to steal money from anti-government guerrillas.
Key of Keys
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship...
The Imperial Navy
Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant...
New Tokyo March
Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress...
The Balloon
1954 Japanese movie
Kyūkon sannin musume
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job...
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
In the third installment in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series, agent Jiro Kitami investigates the mysterious disappearance of a prominent...
A Keg of Powder
In Hong Kong an International Secret Police (ISP) Agent is murdered while investigating ZZZ, a group bent on assassinating the Prime Minister of...
The Killing Bottle
The Militarists
Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the post-war period in Japan.
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover...
Our Town
Japanese drama film.
The Motherless
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to...
The Ataka Family
In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an...
Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home.
Woman Unveiled
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
The Wiser Age
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...
The Lovelorn Geisha
Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.
Interpol Code 8
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of...
Temptation on Glamour Island
A unique and controversial film directed by Umeji Inoue, based on the original story by Shintaro Ishihara, which depicts the image of a group of...
Gesshoku
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
Snow in the South Seas
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...
Burden of Love
About Soviet and Japanese volley-ball players who are both rivals and friends. The events cover the period from the 1976 Montreal Olympics to the eve...
The Way to The Gold Medals
Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s...
The Champion
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi...
Kojiro
Katsura Aya (Shiratori Yasuyo), a young and popular actress, is kidnapped. Igarashi (Honda Hirotaro), the president of the production company, calls...
The Woman Who Disappeared From Her Red Car
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "High and Low" (1963).
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960).
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'
Dôkoku
Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.
Shi no machi wo nogarete
Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of...
Casshern
A story about a man who stakes his life on horse racing.
The Japan Derby Race
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during...
Challenge to Live
During World War II, Japan sends gold to the Phillipines. After the war, the gold is lost in the bay of Manille. Former soldier Takeichi Matsuo is...
Legacy of the 500,000
Haneda, the president of a company dealing in gold, is shot to death on the Raicho 9 limited express from Osaka to Kanazawa. Detective Kamei begins...
Murder on Raicho 9
Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more...
Till We Meet Again
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known...
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s...
Hungry Soul
A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...
Ghost Story of Youth
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the...
Tales of Ginza
Kaei
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...
The Burmese Harp
Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornographic pictures. He frequents a cafe run by two...
Procurer of Hell
A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.
Summer Storm
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.
Always in My Heart Part 3
Explicit drama about a young woman who becomes involved with a group of college students who play "spin-the-bottle" and the women must make love or...
The Cola Game
It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful...
Dancing Sisters
The Masterless 47 – Part II
A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a...
Hungry Soul, Part II
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
All About Marriage
A 1964 war film directed by Kengo Furusawa
Tiger Flight
In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going...
The Wayside Pebble
Drive for the Future
Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and...
Aiyoku no sabaki
The Hall of the Crying Deer
Klima, Deputy Minister of Industry of the Republic of Alabanda, has come to Japan to purchase materials for the water dam construction. Kitami, who...
Trap of Suicide Kilometer
Haru no Wakakusa
A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement,...
Jigoku no hatoba
In the first group of Yoshitake Ichi and Taketatsu Sada Preparatory Training, the team leader was Sou Adachi, a veteran warrior with strict training....
Vanished Glory
The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.
Muhō Ichidai
Kazuko Murata, the head of the private detective bureau, takes on a bizarre murder case involving the wealthy Ninomiya family near the Oiwa Inari...
The Great Tokyo Yotsuya Ghost Story