Hisako Hara

Long Vacation

Minami who is dumped by her ex-boyfriend, Asakura, on their wedding day. She later meets Sena, Asakura's ex-roo...

Bayside Shakedown

A rookie detective learns that life in law enforcement may not be as glamorous as he thought it would be.

After Life

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task...

Black Rain

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and ni...

No Regrets for Our Youth

After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime u...

Talented Woman

Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and...

Fancy Dance

Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling...

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...

A Quiet Life

A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist...

Children of Hiroshima

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of...

Yanagase Blues

Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.

Tower of Lilies

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the...

Will to Live

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting...

Sayonara Color

Shohei works as a doctor in a seaside hospital. One day, a new patient is admitted to the hospital with ovarian...

Turning Point

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumi...

This Greedy Old Skin

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) ta...

Lucky Dragon No. 5

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka...

Battle Heater

Furuchi and Hama are two unsuccessful repair agents and electronic engineers. One day Furichi finds a so-called...

Eight Hours of Terror

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

It's a Psychic, Gather Everyone!

Saigo no kikyō

1945 Japanese movie

Teenage Wolf

In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a young girl!...

In Tomoko's Case

Tomoko Tamura, a second-year high school student living in a detached house in Miyahara-chō, Omiya City, Saitam...

Cape Ashizuri

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of...

Debt King Part VII: Millennium

Takao, the owner of a coffee shop and brother-in-law to Anzai, the assistant manager of Hikari Bank, Osaka cent...

Jûnana-sai no teikô

Kanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a dark shadow. Rais...

This Happy Life

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

Lady Busters, Virgins in Service of God

Beautiful and sexy, pure and wonderful older sisters (Nuns). Punish the wicked.

Weaker Sex

A Japanese comedy based on a serialized novel by Shotaro Yasuoka.

Attention Please

First Japanese TV drama about flight attendants.