Jun Hamamura

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series

Tales of the Bizarre

Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple wor...

High and Low

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but dem...

Taikouki

Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period daimyo who uni...

Love Is in the Green Wind

A youthful film depicting the sexual awakening of a boy who has just entered adolescence and his heartbreaking...

Kashin

Centered around Masujiro Omura, who became a commander for the Choshu clan, and founded the modern Japanese mil...

Romansu

The 32nd NHK Asadora. Starring Takaaki Enoki as a young man who becomes a film director. The first Asadora with...

Kwaidan

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A...

My Sons

Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jeal...

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...

Fires on the Plain

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and lef...

Taiyō no Namida

The day before he leaves on a business trip to Europe, Shoji meets an old man named Ogawa while visiting his yo...

Samurai Reincarnation

After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas...

Samurai Rebellion

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped by the lord. Her husband and his samurai father must decid...

Lovers Lost

A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a...

Profound Desires of the Gods

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill...

Kokugo Gannen

Set in 1874 at the residence of an official of the Ministry of Education of Japan who was ordered with establis...

Ten Dark Women

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woma...

Japan's Longest Day

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

Ballad of Orin

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change a...

The Castle of Sand

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail ya...

The Inferno

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief f...

The Battle of Okinawa

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial comma...

Mount Hakkoda

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902...

The Burmese Harp

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Bud...

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.

August Without Emperor

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V...

Gamera, the Giant Monster

A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ic...

The Demon

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young c...

Himiko

The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.

Her Brother

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family...

Odd Obsession

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become arouse...

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to ki...

Mr. Baseball

Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a fal...

Case of the Disjointed Murder

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma...

Play it, Boogie-Woogie

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. Th...