Jitsuko Yoshimura

dele

Freelance programmer Sakagami is paralyzed in the lower half of his body and confined to a wheelchair. He sets...

A-Un

Senkichi Mizuta, a pharmaceutical company employee, and Shuzo Kadokura, a war profiteer, are diametrically oppo...

Wakko no kin medaru

The 43th NHK Asadora about a female volleyball player who helps out the local community. Starring Azusa Watanab...

Onibaba

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into...

Jūkyūsai

Daisuke dropped out of high school, and his motorcycle was the only thing that helped him cope with his lonelin...

Sadako

A psychologist connects her missing brother to the strange case of a mysterious little girl believed to be Sada...

Dodes'ka-den

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

Cleopatra: Queen of Sex

Three people from the future, who travel spiritually to the era of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII Philopator...

The Insect Woman

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its m...

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samu...

Pigs and Battleships

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation perio...

Red Lion

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier...

Oshin

A young girl named Oshin is sent to work for another family, because of her own family's financial condition. N...

An Innocent Witch

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes i...

The Promised Land

A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in sim...

Samurai Spy

Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of...

The Devil's Path

Death-row inmate Sudo sends a letter to magazine reporter Fujii. In his letter, he states that a man named Kimu...

The Bogus Policeman

Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the fo...

Coquille

Thirty years after graduation, a man and a woman meet again at an alumni reunion. They are no longer young, but...

Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin

Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji.

O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo

After an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to investigate th...

All About Our House

Two newlyweds decide to build their dream home, and hire an old friend named Yanagisawa to design it. Unfortuna...

If You Were Young: Rage

If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of y...

Hoshi wo tsugu mono

An old man falls into a coma and dreams about his childhood during WWII.

Secret Liaisons

Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.

Secret Agent 101

Japan-Hong Kong co-production.

Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu

1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

A Gap in the Skin

A young couple go on the run after the murder of his mother.

Box: The Hakamada Case

Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on...

The Night of the Seagull

A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's...

Semi matsuri no shima

2000 Japanese movie

Bad Girls of Japan

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the...

Signal Fool

Isamu, a sixth-grade boy, lost his mother in a car accident at a young age. Ever since, he's been unable to for...

The Last Judgment

Driven by greed and a desire for his cousin's wife, Jiro orchestrates a complex frame-up to have his cousin arr...

Mother

From the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated, loving and giving m...

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