Hiroshi Tachikawa

Yojimbo

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen...

Throne of Blood

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their...

Sanjuro

In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warri...

Story of a Prostitute

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldier...

Chûshingura

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

Gorath

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

Matango

Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little e...

I Live in Fear

An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. Wh...

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance pol...

Fighting Elegy

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a...

Little Peach

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until sh...

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them h...

The Surf

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a...

Summer Clouds

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview he...

Let's Go! Young Guy

College student Yuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off against their...

Star of Hong Kong

Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter wit...

Playboy President: Part II

After a promotion brings new professional challenges, a diligent employee is pulled into corporate matchmaking...

The President's Boss

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

Ôban

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

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

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

Theater of Life

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!

Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs g...

The Rough One

A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro'...

Zero Fighter

The President Talks Bank

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies o...

House of Many Pleasures

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a...

The Resurrection of the Beast

Crime film released in 1969

Romance Express

Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In t...

Assistant President

The Tenth Game of New Salarymen: Salaryman Ittoru

1962 Japanese movie

Our Failures

Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.

The First Kiss

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

The Third President

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku S...

Dasshutsu

1972 Japanese movie