Akiko Kazami

Special Crime Investigation Front

Oyaji Daiko

The Tsuru family is a family of nine, headed by Kamejiro. Kamejiro is the president of a construction company t...

Iki no Iiyatsu

Set in a sushi restaurant in Tokyo shortly after the end of the war, the story follows a stubborn, old-fashione...

Red Beard

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his fir...

The Autumn in Tokyo

A unique drama that contrasts the lives of a family of elite salarymen in Tokyo and a family of landowners in T...

The Bullet Train

A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 k...

Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda

Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He was the sec...

A Fugitive from the Past

Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the...

A House in the Quarter

With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel i...

Adrift in Tokyo

A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.

The Yen Family

Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of...

Repast

In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's yo...

Miyamoto Musashi

In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend....

Points and Lines

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detecti...

Have a Nice Day

Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter...

The Choice of Hercules

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Offic...

The Great Road

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the w...

The Story of a Man Among Men

During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and...

Yume-Chiyo

Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive...

Pretty Woman

Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the a...

Eight Views of Samurai

Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a da...

The Eleventh Hour

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A so...

There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl

Benio, a peppy tomboy, is surprised to learn that she has been secretly betrothed by her grandfather to a young...

The Lord Takes a Bride

Young Lord Gentaro (Otomo Ryutaro) takes a journey to Edo in search of his future wife. Easier said than done,...

Three-Fingered Detective

Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom'...

Not Forgotten

Three WWII veterans, reunited by family circumstances, quickly find their life savings threatened by a private...

A Portrait of Shunkin

Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on he...

The Outsiders

A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly isl...

Ohana han: Dai ni bu

A sequel to Ohana han.

Run, Genta, Run!

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better...

Aurora Borealis

The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s.

The Navy

A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to f...

Tsuki yori no haha

Japanese drama film.

Sweet Little Lies

A husband and wife, who have not had sex in three years, both fall into extra-marital affairs.

The Shogun and the Fishmonger

Fishmonger Tasuke and Shogun Iemitsu swap their identities in pretence for the protection of Iemitsu.

Koto—The Lake of Tears

A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its...