Kiwako Taichi

Island of Hell

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

August Without Emperor

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

Kuroneko

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war....

National Kid

National Kid is a Japanese TV series produced by Toei Company in 1960. Created by mangaka Daiji Kazumine, it wa...

Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as pa...

The Last Samurai

The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after hi...

Confessions Among Actresses

In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored....

Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was emba...

Zatoichi in Desperation

After accidentally causing the death of an old lady, Zatoichi tries to do right by buying the lady’s daughter’s...

Gambling Den Heist

After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.

Fire Festival

Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, instead promot...

Burning Nature

Film from 1967.

Akumyo: Notorious Dragon

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

Bullet Wound

Yuzo Kayama is an American-Japanese operative working for the US to uncover an arms deal between an American se...

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...

Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery

Detective Morgan and the Japanese police cooperate to unveil the truth of the mysterious death of Morgan’s frie...

Human Target

At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe kil...

The Phantom Goblin

An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears to sweep ou...

Flower and Dragon

Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedo...

Hibari the Traveling Performer

Kimie, a traveling guitarist, performs at various inns at help out her sickly mother. One night while out with...

Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san

Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor. Sado Masasaburo, t...

Devil's Nursery Rhyme

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.

Shinjuku baka monogatari

Japanese film from 1977.

Tekka Wakashū

1962 Japanese movie

An Ode to Yakuza

Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister...

Japan's No. 1 Shocked Man

The last (10th) Toho "Crazy film" in the Nippon Ichi series.

Messengers to Satsuma

By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domain. Already seven oniwaban spie...

Father

A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.

Song of Kagoshima

Yumemi, the president of Shirayuri Tours, visits Kagoshima in an attempt to save the contract with Satsuma Inn....

Sea of Wonders

A photographer is lost in a storm and washes up on an isolated island, where he meets a vampire woman and falls...

Kaoyaku

A detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.

Futaridake no taiyō

1961 Japanese movie

Kigeki-otoko no ude dameshi

In front of Sagami Detention Center. Shosuke, the owner of a strip joint called "Shunpu Music," welcomes Okoma,...

Only Child

Strange Affinity

The Instant Services Bureau

Comedy of two brothers working at a local governmental office.