Ichirō Ryūzaki

Tora! Tora! Tora!

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

Musume to Watashi

A television serial that was in turn adapted from a radio series and a novel, My Daughter And I featured a Japa...

Sanshiro Sugata

A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujutsu bravado f...

Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.

Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led t...

Lady From Hell

Three and a half years after Japan was bombed, the tax authorities organized the T-Men. Nango is in love with a...

Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?

French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist Richard So...

The Blue Mountains: Part I

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for...

Currents of Youth

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the governme...

The Rainbow-Colored Flower

Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three diffe...

The Shiinomi School

A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they strug...

Dawn of Judo

The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to San...

慶安水滸傳

Chikuzen, a ronin named Yoh Daisuke, after pacifying some ruffians at the theater of Onna-Kata Ogino Sawanojiki...

Minamoto Yoshitsune

A historical scroll depicting the story of the tragic fate of the young samurai Minamoto Yoshitsune, based on t...

Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness

A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter d...

Prison Boss

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

Prison Tales

The Terrible Game

Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with the daughter...

The Poppy

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And desp...

Red Peony of Night

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment an...

Mother Never Dies

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

Spring Snow

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support...

Riverside Fish Market Empire

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

The Tale of Jiro

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life...

風雲児

Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with...

Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Demon Palace

In Kyoto, a samurai named Boredom Otoko, Saotome Mondonosuke , appears and helps a woman being chased by a spy...

Geisha Waltz

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

Wings of Victory

情艶一代女

Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins tr...

情艶一代女

Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins tr...

Goblin Warrior

The Blue Mountains: Part II

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.

Married Woman: Another Law of the Night

The film takes place in Yokohama, a night city where you can revel in the neon mood. A bartender who wants to b...

The Challenge of the Female Spy Akatsuki

Japanese spy film.

Wakaki sugata