Eitarō Ozawa

The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?

An epic of love and death that depicts how soldiers and ordinary people lived and fought during the Russo-Japan...

Yasei no Shōmei

A girl survives a massacre of villagers by Japanese soldiers in a remote mountain village, and a member of the...

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief...

The Return of Godzilla

After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected G...

Kinagashi Bugyō

Koheita, a newly appointed magistrate, never shows his face in the magistrate's office, instead spending his ti...

Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin

A human drama based on the "Date Riots".

Ugetsu

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearb...

The White Tower

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa Univ...

The Imperial Navy

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship...

Gorath

In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smal...

Sandakan No. 8

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel call...

Chikamatsu Monogatari

When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee...

Princess Yang Kwei-fei

In 8th-century China, the Emperor grieves the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor w...

Assassination

In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex gam...

The Inugami Family

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that s...

The H-Man

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

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

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

Scandal

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a f...

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...

August Without Emperor

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V...

Goyokin

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

Beast Alley

Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their...

The Sun's Burial

In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and t...

Godzilla 1985

Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "God...

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves....

Willful Murder

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued...

Blue Singing

Tetsuo, the son of a bicycle shop owner, and his sister Hanako rescue Megumi Kuroki and Kiyotaka Sawada from a...

A Taxing Woman

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a susp...

The Great White Tower

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa Univ...

Till We Meet Again

Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with he...

The Loyal 47 Ronin

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a cour...

Spring Dreams

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are...

How Sorrowful

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about...

A Wife Confesses

Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accus...

Devil's Flute

Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of int...

Totteoki no Seishun