Frankie Sakai

Shōgun

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

Ponytail Won't Look Back

After her family breaks apart and she ends up behind bars, a defiant teen fights her way back into the world th...

A-Un

Senkichi Mizuta, a pharmaceutical company employee, and Shuzo Kadokura, a war profiteer, are diametrically oppo...

Mothra

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that dis...

Edo Porn

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his dau...

Vengeance Is Mine

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

Chûshingura

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to av...

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of h...

The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle...

Miyamoto Musashi

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing becaus...

Mastermind

Zero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called Chatze(sp?) played by...

A Geisha's Diary

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles throu...

Sharaku

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notice...

Dynamite Don-Don

Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly between the Okagen Gr...

How Sorrowful

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

Tôhôkenbunroku

Snow in the South Seas

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endu...

The Bride from Japan

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates...

Japanese Humanity and Justice

When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as...

Westward Desperado

In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win...

Man Who Causes a Storm

Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom...

The Last War

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

You Can Succeed, Too

A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.

Woman Boss

Three Gentlemen from Tokyo

Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong

Have Wings on Your Heart

Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.

President's Ninja Trick Book Part II

Iwato Construction secures a major project in Hokkaido and promotes a key employee, but chaos follows—personal...

Ganpeki

1953 Japanese movie

Company President Travels Abroad

Executives from a Japanese department store travel to Hawaii to acquire land for expansion but become entangled...

Moonlight Serenade

After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World W...

Aces Wild

Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descenda...

Travel Stories of a Company President

It is the 16th series of the call series with the highest masterpiece among the "President" series. The preside...

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had strugg...

A Company President's Life Story

A clothing manufacturer president tries to revitalize his company during a business downturn by securing new sa...

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen

Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn.