Kyū Sazanka

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...

Yojimbo

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen...

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief...

The Bad Sleep Well

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese...

Fires on the Plain

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

Chûshingura

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

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes l...

The End of Summer

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health afte...

Odd Obsession

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

Pale Flower

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while t...

Cruel Story of Youth

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking...

A Geisha's Diary

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles throu...

Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period

Sixth entry in the Company President Series.

Manji

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

Giants and Toys

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce com...

The Temple of Wild Geese

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, di...

Sweet Sweat

This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is worki...

Silence Has No Wings

After a young boy captures a rare butterfly in Nagasaki, a caterpillar begins a relay-trip toward the northern...

Elegant Beast

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their o...

The Masterless 47

Part one of The Masterless 47.

A Whistle in My Heart

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of th...

Talkative Company President

A former company man turned drifter is pulled back to lead a struggling toy company, enforcing bold reforms tha...

The Catch

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who awa...

The Crowded Train

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look bu...

Playboy President: Part II

After a promotion brings new professional challenges, a diligent employee is pulled into corporate matchmaking...

Darkness at Noon

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

On This Earth

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works...

Let's Meet in Our Dreams

Mie Nakao runs away from home to join her older sister's production company as a new talent. We follow her ups...

The Maid Story

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry...

Yaji and Kita on the Road

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage,...

Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!

1967 Japanese movie

I Will Buy You

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.

The Enforcer

This Greedy Old Skin

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) ta...

When Women Lie

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Y...