Ichirō Zaitsu

The Private Detective Mike

Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a s...

Hideyoshi

A dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity, Hideyoshi serve...

Marriage Begins With A Lie

The story follows Ryota Mizusawa, a kitchen unit salesman, and Masumi Sakaki, a hand model and single mother of...

Tennō no Ryōriban

A biographical series about Tokuzō Akiyama, who served as the imperial cook, from his youth until he became the...

Okane ga Nai!

Kentaro lives in the suburbs with his two little brothers. They are poor, but they are happy. The factory Kenta...

The Imperial Navy

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship...

The Funeral

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurren...

P. P. Rider

Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of t...

Tarao Bannai

Legendary detective returns.

Mitsugetsu

Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced upon her un...

Rikyu

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and...

Melodrama

The film depicts the anguish of an arsonist as he approaches the statute of limitations.

The Gentlemen’s Alliance

Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one af...

Stray Dog

When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated...

Jazz Daimyo

Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in...

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and sh...

The Tragedy in the Devil-Mask Village

Tarao’s services are called upon to solve the mysterious death of bride-to-be, Mariko, who was found dead with...

Yokohama BJ Blues

BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to...

Oishinbo

Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cy...

Detective Story

A private detective and a college student find themselves in hot water while investigating the murder of a nigh...

My Voiceless Friends

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the be...

The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro

Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries...

女の夏

Surgical Designs in Flames

A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high...

Autumn Blossoms

Permanent Blue

In a fishing town by the Seto Sea, a student discovers a woman motionless on the beach and takes her back to hi...

Secret of the Forbidden Valley

A thrilling historical drama in which a ronin played plays an active role in redeeming the name of a man who wa...

Akumyo: Notorious Dragon

About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not c...

Deeper Than Blue

About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to sur...

Black Board

Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder rel...

Tree Without Leaves

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel....

Congratulatory Speech

Big, Big Fellow

The golden duo of Yoshitaro Mura and Kiyoshi Atsumi brings you a full-on comedy filled with laughter and melanc...

Lover, Come Back to Me

Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko,...

Lover, Come Back to Me

Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko,...

At This Late Date, the Charleston

A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several impostors in t...