Kyoko Aoyama

Pro Hunter

Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Le...

I Live in Fear

An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. Wh...

Queen of the Treasure Island

At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of the Benten...

Hero of the Red Light District

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot...

Love on Rainbow Island

Japanese counterpart to Romeo and Juliet

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four)...

Last of the Wild Ones

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

The Ako Retainers

Toei’s 10th anniversary film, featuring an all-star cast from the golden movie era of the 1960s. A famous story...

The Surf

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a...

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Teenage Sazae

Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.

Adolescence

Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.

Red-Light Bases

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

Tenement Apartment: Obscene Affair

The ordinary life of an executive’s wife is altered when she begins to attend a mysterious club that serves mor...

The Gay Masquerade

The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa....

Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness

A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter d...

The Underworld

Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involve...

Kisaragi Sword

The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Sho...

The First Kiss

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

Oban kanketsu hen

Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’...

The Lord's spy

Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his legitimate wife, wh...

Koibito-tachi no iru machi

Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yosh...

Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku S...

Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia

Escaping the hustle and bustle of Edo, the Young Lord came to Oshima Island in Izu to take a vacation. Unexpect...

Outlaw island

The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors...

Itsuko to sono haha

An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.

High Teen

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal....

Case of Umon: Hell’s Windmill

Umon’s services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Kayo and Minokichi, along with the ronin, Gontaro are...

Return of the One-Armed Swordsman

The legendary one-eyed one-armed swordsman Tange Sazen is back to aid a Magistrate in his efforts to steal brib...

The Black Hooded Man Rides Again

Unruly Lion

Lord Nobunaga's Early Days

Jūdai no yūwaku

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

My Wonderful Yellow Car