Akihiko Katayama

Professional Killers

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that intro...

The Ambitious

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He w...

Mother

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Satan's Sword: The Dragon God

The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue a...

Dancing Girl

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, fi...

The Lady of Musashino

In post-war Japan, Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, confides in her younger...

Vendetta of a Samurai

Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.

Delinquent Girl

A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar re...

The Battleship Yamato

The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U....

Journey

Ōkuma Shigenobu the great

The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of...

The Pit of Death

Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the company preside...

Hobo Village

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

Marriageable Age

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while livi...

Thus the Divine Wind Blows

Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan agains...

The Bronze Monster

In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must ca...

Dancing Girls of Izu

A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love th...

元祿美少年記

On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for...

情熱の詩人啄木

1962 Japanese movie

The Vassal's Neck

Japanese film.

Ah Special Attack Corps

Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in...

Saigo no kikyō

1945 Japanese movie

A 16-Year-Old Girl's Jazz Festival

Japanese musical.

誘拐

1962 Japanese movie

Akatsuki no Kyūshū

Japanese drama film.

Shojo jutai

Half Virgin

Anchin and Kiyohime

Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated...

Black Sea of Trees

Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car accident in Hamama...

Teinen Taishoku

She Came For Love

Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a love...

Love's Cheerleader

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Riverside Fish Market Empire

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

Her Hidden Past

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love b...

Otoko to onna no sei no naka

1962 Japanese movie

The Rockabilly Lady