Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Tora! Tora! Tora!

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed...

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on retur...

Japan's Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the governmen...

Early Summer

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, he...

Cruel Story of Youth

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking...

The Eagle of the Pacific

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

Repast

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

Cruel Gun Story

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck drive...

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discove...

Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi

1962 Japanese movie

The Love of the Actress Sumako

Stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with outspoken actress Sumako...

The Street Without Sun

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large...

The Balloon

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrog...

The Eagle and the Hawk

In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the bre...

All of Myself

The daughter of a former Miss Universe winner finds success as a fashion model in Tokyo following the death of...

A Warm Misty Night

When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfrie...

The Rambling Guitarist

Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a h...

Black Tight Killers

Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane back to Japan....

The Call of the Foghorn

A sailor is stuck in the harbor due to an engine failure in his boat, and he learns that a friend of his has di...

Dancing Girl

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

Nerves for Victory

A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight...

Dissolution Rites

Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain t...

How the Bell of Liberty Rings

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societa...

Shanghai Rose

Parole

Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.

Farewell to Southern Tosa

Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.

Aijô ni tsuite

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died fro...

Escape from Hell

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless...

Konto 55: Mankind's Weaknesses

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakag...

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorio...

Birth of a Jazz Maiden

Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of h...

Red Pier

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a cran...

A Bullet Hole Underground

Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku

"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to...

Gyakukōsen

Reiko, a free-spirited college girl not bound by social conventions, ends up having an affair with an older, ma...

Saigo no totsugeki

A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work...