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Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of...
Rashomon
It was the first time in six years that I was able to step on the land of my homeland, the land of my nostalgia. It was Tokyo that had turned to...
The Fourth Lady
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
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love...
The Idiot
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes,...
Homecoming
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
Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to...
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the...
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband.
Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and...
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they...
Princess Yang Kwei Fei
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful...
Alone Across the Pacific
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He...
Floating Clouds
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...
The Ball at the Anjo House
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between...
Her Brother
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
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...
Brother and Sister
The four-member con group, including the intellectual boss Nobukichi Ishiguro (Masayuki Mori), who is called an "aristocrat con man" for his elegant...
Wild Ducks and Green Onions
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
A Whistle in My Heart
The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.
The Good Fairy
A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.
Love New and Old
In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...
The Other Woman
A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.
Elegy of the North
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her...
Forever a Woman
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Love Letter
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...
Untamed Woman
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese...
Admiral Yamamoto
A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers,...
This Greedy Old Skin
This Day's Life
A Certain Woman
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides in...
The Lady of Musashino
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
A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.
Gateway to Glory
Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.
The Cannery Boat
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...
Broken Drum
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially...
Night Drum
Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their...
Battle Troop
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
On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university...
Bright Sea
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...
Beauty and the Thief
Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly...
Sword and Flower
Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in...
Those Who Make Tomorrow
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...
Reminiscence
Yoshikawa and Kaji are alumni - Yoshikawa leads a life loyal to his company Toho Corporation, whilst Kaji works in the underground world for Aoyama,...
The Third Dead Angle
"Pure white nights" - A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the psychology of their marriage with elegant and a controversial...
Pure White Nights
A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is...
Delinquent Girl
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
One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and...
Refresher Course for Wives
A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a...
Nocturne of a Woman
An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly...
This Way, That Way
A Fool's Love
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as...
A Design for Dying
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...
Ugetsu
1950 Toho film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Devil's Gold
Confession
Devils-in-Law
Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...
The Romance of Yushima
Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his employer.
Sun Above, Death Below
Human Torpedoes Attack
Kekkon Sanjûshi
If two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly wished, and the two who cried under the harsh trials...
Reunion
Romantic melodrama
Stolen Love