Hisashi Igawa

Harakiri

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and...

Ran

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an agi...

Hassai Sensei

The 39th NHK Asadora drama is Hassai-sensei. A novice teacher in 1930s Osaka learns that there is more to educa...

Haru and Natsu

As Haru emigrates from Japan with her family to the coffee plantations in Brazil, Natsu is left behind in the c...

Tora! Tora! Tora!

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

It's Tough Being a Man

The original TV Drama series the famous Tora film series was based on.

On-yado Kawasemi

Humanistic detective stories that took place in an inn called 'Kawasemi'.

Ordinary Miracles

One day, a middle-aged man, Fujimoto Makoto, is standing on a train platform, about to jump in front of a train...

Stepsisters

A moving story of intense love, hate, and reconciliation born out of a fateful encounter between the only daugh...

Dreams

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s...

Graduation

Kinoshita Kaori (Nakayama Miho), a native of Nagano, was allowed to live alone in Tokyo for two years during he...

Marginal Village Inc.

In a small village in the Kanto regioin, which is surrounded by mountains, residents and a management consultan...

Tampopo

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop sellin...

Who Do You Think You Are?

While working in the leisurely atmosphere at a food company's factory, Futaro is asked to return to their corpo...

The Face of Another

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask starts altering...

Rhapsody in August

An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945...

Yamato

Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the present day an...

The Tailor-Made Shirt

Shukichi, the owner of a shirt shop in Tsukuda, Tokyo, is a stubborn craftsman devoted to his work. Through clu...

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

Kaji, sent to the Japanese army labeled Red, witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive tr...

Hachiko

The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno...

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Dodes'ka-den

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an ima...

House on Fire

In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mist...

Madadayo

In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce...

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo wit...

Onna: Sono Ai no Series

Collection of short stories about women in various periods of Japanese history. Based on famous Japanese novels.

The Loss of Humanity

Three tales raise unsettling questions about the central qualities of being human. In one, a father is torn bet...

Japan's Longest Day

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

Have a Song on Your Lips

A young piano prodigy, Yuri Kashiwagi, returns to her hometown after several years and joins a middle school to...

The Oil-Hell Murder

The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and...

Villain

Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with gi...

47 Ronin

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit...

After the Rain

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad we...

Letter from the Mountain

Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming vill...

Three Outlaw Samurai

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial ma...

The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Makino clan of...