Akira Sera

Shōgun

An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.

Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Le...

Floating Clouds

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typis...

The Three Treasures

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his fa...

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes l...

The Castle of Sand

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail ya...

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samu...

Invisible Man

When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a da...

The H-Man

When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his w...

The Last Gunfight

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Ko...

The Revolt

When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life o...

Varan the Unbelievable

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set u...

A Wife's Heart

A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't...

Beast Man Snow Man

Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.

The Eagle of the Pacific

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgiving...

The Secret of the Telegian

Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his v...

Varan

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to invest...

Desperado Outpost

When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War,...

Get 'em All

Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to...

Dog of Fortune

From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of...

Love on Rainbow Island

Japanese counterpart to Romeo and Juliet

The Twilight Story

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing mother. Whi...

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four)...

The Beast Shall Die

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of hi...

The Last Kamikaze

With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide atta...

Youth of Heiji Senigata

Mr. Pu

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

The Big Boss

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder,...

Ôban

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of fou...

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

A Man Among Men

Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the tr...

All is Well

All About Marriage

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified...

Elephant from "Zoo Story"

The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of "Zoo Story...

Jakoman and Tetsu

In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. On...

Who Is the Informer?

After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out the homes o...