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Nigetekita hanayome
The story of a ghostly thief in Edo who calls himself the fireball guy.
Nonsense - Fireball Boy Thief
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
1962 Japanese movie
次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes...
Fall Guy
Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the proud geisha Nobukichi Hakata in the...
A Geisha on Horseback
The Undefeated Woman
After killing the deceiver, the Masa gambler comes to Ina. There is a horse market in Ina, and the landowner Tamegoro, plans to steal the proceeds...
The Wanderer
Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, lacking any sense of either duty or chivalry. When...
Scoundrel
Woman His Prey
1961 Japanese movie
Kusa wo karu musume
腕まくり七色娘
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should...
The Ballad of Narayama
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
Vengeance Is Mine
Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank...
Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
Sazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's parents' home, the Isono family. However, the...
Sazae-san's Newlywed Family
Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and...
Sazae-san's Marriage
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and makes Takuzo Kawatani his kitchen bitch. He tries to...
The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
Keita, after his death, was taken to the court of heaven as Defendant No. 1361, where his past was projected. He was formerly a favorite of the...
Enomoto's Heaven and Hell
The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find...
Pom Poko
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip
Sazae And Aunt Apron
Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki
When We Came Back
Endless Passion
Okashina yatsu
The film adaptation of Kazuo Kikuta novel "Kumo no Ue Dangoro Ichiza", which enjoyed great success at the performances of the Toho Takarazuka Theater...
The Dangoro Party in the Sky
Shinobi ai
A Devil of a Gentleman
Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie
Dynamite Doctor Returns
Story of a bandit king part 2.
Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn
Kigeki Gyanburu Hisshôhô
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.
Sazae-san Plays Cupid
In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there's no tomorrow. The first movie of a new series...
Silk Hat Boss
A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers
The juvenile
It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.
Screwed
The Great Department Store Robbery
Sequel to "Saiyuki" (1952)
Ô abare Songokû
1958 Japanese movie
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus...
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.
Harmonica Boy
My Daughter's Only Wish tells the story of a poorly paid and clumsy office clerk, played with much comedic talent by Atsushi Watanabe. His biggest...
My Daughter's Only Wish
The Old Man of the Propeller can be seen as a comedic amalgam of “King Lear” and “Christmas Carol”. A neighborhood loan shark...
The Old Man of the Propeller
Gokudo goes politics. Gray-haired Bin Amatsu has Wakayama assist a politician, meaning trashing the opponent. But of course the opponent has a pretty...
Fugitive Scoundrel
Utau myōjō seishun ga ippai
During the Genroku era, Azusa Gennosuke, renowned in Nara as a top swordsman and a scholar, crossed swords with the Magistrate Kurobane Yatayu, who...
お役者変化
At the transformed Fumaden (Demon Subduing) Temple, with the dynamic efforts of Sukesan and Kakusan, and the appearance of the heroic woman Oshin,...
Travels of Lord Mito Pt.2
The deputy shogun of the realm, accompanied by his loyal and capable aides, makes a stop at Jigokudani, a place along his journey through various...
Travels of Lord Mito Pt.1
Third film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.
Travels of Lord Mito Pt.3
Enoken plays a frog-oil-hawking conman whose claims to martial prowess land him in hot water with the local samurai gentry - but not before he falls...
Enoken's Donguri Tonbei
Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama
Return of the Outlaw
Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama
The Yakuza Awaits
Japanese Women's Textbook
Asu no hanayome
Isshin Tasuke, a friend of Ōkubo Hikozōemon, the esteemed public arbitrator of the realm, saved the maid Onatsu from punishment after she...
大江戸出世双六
大当り黄金狂時代
Flowers on the Trail
のど自慢三羽烏
旗本退屈男 謎の怪人屋敷
Tōkyō sanosa musume
Based on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts.
Tenten Musume
One Step to Happiness
Tekka Wakashū
Keshô yuki
Approached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan's home seeking help. Hama-chan is away on a business trip, but...
Free and Easy Special
1949 Japanese film
Odoroki ikka
1950 drama film
Blue Sky Angel
A Kajirô Yamamoto directed comedy starring Roppa Furukawa.
Roppa's Honeymoon
Near the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), Enokichi, a popular figure in the world of boxing entangled in the Yakuza business.
Enoken’s Boxing Generation
After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a...
Mama, I Need You!
The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the...
Five Men in a Circus
Depicts the checkered story of a businessman working for a toy company in financial trouble, who overcomes hardships to win a major victory.
A Bold Life
This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's...
Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip
This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.
Travelling Actors
1940 Japanese movie
明朗五人男
Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he...
Mr. Shosuke Ohara
In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The...
Roadside Stone
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an...
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Ishihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named Tsuneda who is planning the same robbery and agree to...
All Rascals
A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.
A Mother's Love
Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.
Farewell to Spring
Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
Kimie, a traveling guitarist, performs at various inns at help out her sickly mother. One night while out with her mother, Otoshi, Kimie unexpectedly...
Hibari the Traveling Performer
Japanese comedy film.
娘十八びっくり天国
Japanese film.
Santōshain to onna hisho
誰よりも金を愛す
大当りパチンコ娘
A gang of bank robbers plan a big robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the heist for different reasons.
Flower, Storm and Gangster
Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san"...
Dimple of Tokyo
Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.
親馬鹿花合戦
Meigetsu sataro gasa
Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.
Composition Class
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.
The Legend of the White Serpent
Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).
Ichiyo Higuchi
A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like...
The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map
"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her...
Karayuki-san
A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.
珍説忠臣蔵
Tokijiro has the unfortunate duty according to the code of the gamblers to join in the fighting when afforded a night’s stay and meals at the...
Kutsukake Tokijiro: The Lonely Yakuza
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal...
Akitsu Hot Springs
The feudal lord Kisaragi Yae no Kami (Minami Komyo) searches for a child he had with a low-borne woman, that was sent away from his home 16 years ago...
Great Edo Song Festival
A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.
To Your Majesty, The Emperor
A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a...
Enraptured
A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in...
The Foster Mother
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...
A Story from Echigo
As descendent of famed fishmonger Isshin Tasuke, young feisty Ishii Tasuke uses his talent to flourish his employer’s food business.
The Ambitious Youth
The third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street peddler, who this time ventures to Osaka where he...
Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel
Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.
Hobo Village
Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved in a robbery of precious diamond.
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
Postwar! Baseball! Comedy! Enoken plays a superfan of the Yomiuri Giants – the real Tokyo team, with many of its star players "acting" as...
Enoken's Home Run King
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
The Unbalanced Wheel
Akireta musumetachi
Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother died when she was little. When she turned 18 years...
Red Peony Gambler
When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
Our Marriage
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Portrayed by a pair of up and...
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to find his father has died under orders of a local...
Rampaging Dragon of the North
Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by...
Oishinbo
Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.
Fantasy of Youth
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...
Room for Let
The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Oryu’s life as she seals her...
Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
How to Make Money
Tetsunosuke, an eccentric doctor and an owner of a fencing school, takes aim against corrupt authorities.
Drunken Sword
An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal,...
Yakuza on Foot
Interesting fights between the "Capone Group" and "Jumbo Group".
The Swindlers
Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Based on the comic by Machiko Hasegawa
New Journey of Yaji and Kita
The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livihoods are...
Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her...
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives.
Good Rascals
Ryujin Misaki, located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy patients. When Saotome, a sword master and guard of...
The Mysterious Cape
Japanese family drama.
The Happy Family
This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...
The Brick Factory Girl
When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out...
Through the Night
A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the...
The Rough One
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
Price of Beauty
Life of a bachelor gynecologist in a hospital for women.
Women's Doctor
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...
Tokyo Omnibus
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...
Tokyo Sweetheart
Prison Tales
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to...
My Sweetheart
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he...
Love in Ginza
A princess seeks adventure and true love, with help from her loyal servant.
Travels of Hibari and Chiemi 2
A tanuki-themed musical.
Tanuki Battle of Awaodori Festival
The son of a besieged Shogun in war-torn 17th century Japan travels to Spain to buy weaponry from the king.
Journey of Honor
On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest...
The Sound of Waves
Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...
Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.
Young Tree
Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is...
Learn from Experience, Part Two
A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing...
The School Cap
The Harbor Lights
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...
Twenty-Four Eyes
Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself defending a lady in distress. During the skirmish...
A Yakuza Goes Home
Sugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and bad people.
Travels of Gonkuro
Tôhôkenbunroku
Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....
Dancers of Awa
Bad Reputation: The Notorious Harbor
An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.
Women Can't Be Beaten
The Shrikes
Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou
Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.
Sazae's Engagement Trip
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
Sazae-san's Baby
With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an...
Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo of the goddess Banten, the woman who heads the Banten...
Woman Boss: Chivalrous Fight
A family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is framed as a rebel by a corrupt member of the Shogun's...
Case of a Young Lord 8
The first in a series of films featuring the comedy duo Entatsu-Achako, providing them with a background story to do their popular manzai-routines on...
Akireta renchû
The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help...
Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
Every Wife Cannot Stand Still
Bikkuri Sanjuushi
Utae! Seishun Harikiri Musume
Pleasant Company
Hunting master Ginzo kills a man-eating bear. When he finds out the bear had a cub, Ginzo decides to raise the cub, but the bear later becomes a...
The Forest of the Little Bear
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...
Jakoman and Tetsu
The Jumping Magistrate
The Bloody Cherry Blossom Magistrate
Hide-chan (Hideko Takamine) and her family are on a trip to Tokyo. While visiting a fairground, a pickpocket (Kamatari Furukawa) steals the father's...
The Kingdom of Spectacles
An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.
Nightingale
Matashirō Fighting Journey
A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.
Living Image
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...
The Giant
Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in...
Song of the White Orchid
Kekkon Sanjûshi
Story of a bandit king.
A Tale of Thieves in War Time: Part 1 - Tiger and Wolf
1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
I Am a Cat
Hikoroku Laughs a lot
Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They help Ocho, who is a beautiful pickpocket when she...
The Magical Warrior
City
Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a...
I'm a Bodyguard