Kumeko Otowa

Ran

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an agi...

Dreams

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s...

Kagemusha

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen,...

Floating Clouds

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typis...

Rhapsody in August

An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945...

Chûshingura

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to av...

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun,...

Two in the Shadow

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote br...

Flowing

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn'...

The 8-Tomb Village

A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.

The Wiser Age

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Okuni and Gohei

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to he...

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

Third Class Executives

1950s Japanese comedy.

The Battle of Kawanakajima

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle...

Repast

In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's yo...

Five Gents and Karate Grandpa

"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company.

Sky of Hope

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples...

The Lovelorn Geisha

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is...

Luxury Yacht: First Love Tour Murder Case

Office worker Kanako takes a trip to Nanki Shirahama in Wakayama Prefecture as part of a travel agency project...

Ichiyo Higuchi

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

Shanghai Landing Party

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated wa...

Composition Class

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an e...

A Man's Flower Road of Triumph

Whirlpool of Love

1962 Japanese movie

Subterranean Heat

Sazae-san

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.

Hikari to kage (Zenpen)

Part one of two.

Yukiko and Natsuyo

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.

Hikari to kage (Kōhen)

Part two of two.

The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 2)

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

明朗五人男

1940 Japanese movie

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete

Village of Eight Tombs

Japanese horror thriller from 1969.

娘十八びっくり天国

Japanese comedy film.

Rivals

Two hyper-competitive salarymen let their workplace rivalry spill over into their private lives, as both men tr...