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Musume no boken
A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen...
Koto—The Lake of Tears
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...
The Lower Depths
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...
Conflagration
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake...
Floating Weeds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...
Summer Clouds
Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Drawn...
Floating Vessel
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the...
Odd Obsession
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady,...
The Pornographers
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...
The End of Summer
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
An Actor's Revenge
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it...
An Osaka Story
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...
Kwaidan
Once upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken father. One day after they disguised themselves as...
Enchanted Princess
In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha...
Buddha
[Period covered: 1614-1615] 4th film in the shinobi no mono series Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be...
Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with...
Love Under the Crucifix
The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives...
The Fencing Master
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted...
The Great Wall
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...
The Broken Commandment
170 Leagues to Edo
Bad Reputation Returns
Lord Tadanao
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
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...
Travels of Lord Mito
Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just...
The River Yokobori
Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistics of the police, hospital, and criminal justice...
The Rape
1962 Japanese movie
Yoru no keisha
Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke...
What Price Love?
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...
Bonchi
Seppuku Day 17 Ako ronins, including Kuranosuke Oishi, who were entrusted to the Hosokawa family, and the events of the two days before are depicted...
Last Days of the Samurai
During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo...
Shogun's Holiday
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daughter will also fall victim to his curse, so that...
Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane
One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from...
Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern
About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family...
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo...
The Gay Masquerade
Princess Tsuki
Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
A demon-faced monster seeking revenge appears in the forms of a gigantic ox and a huge spider! The young Genji warrior protects the Fujiwara Clan and...
The Demon of Mount Oe
A unique story of a life of romance, divided into three episodes about the profound secrets of the path deeply rooted in the essence of human nature,...
Iro no Michi Oshiemasu: Yume San'ya
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...
The Temple of Wild Geese
A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during...
Sentimental Mobsters
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...
The Three Treasures
Film directed by Kenji Misumi.
Gambler and the Princess
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly...
A Lustful Man
Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.
The Shop Curtain
Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor...
Triangle Moods
A light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.
Hot Spring Doctress
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...
A Woman's Testament
A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father
The Third Will
Revenge of Jorurizaka 1: Attack at Onibushi Pass
Tokugawa Ichizoku no Houkai
Ambush at Iga Pass
At sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage therapist. One day, stumbling on a staircase, he meets a...
The Story of a Blind Woman