Masahiko Naruse

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on retur...

The Lonely Scalpel

The story is set in Sumidagawa Hospital, an emergency hospital in downtown Tokyo. The head of surgery there, Iw...

Demon's Room

A wife gets a call from a man claiming to be from her husband's company. He tells her that he will come to pick...

The Burmese Harp

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

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of...

The Great Killing

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent...

The Sands of Kurobe

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transport...

Points and Lines

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detecti...

Silence Has No Wings

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

Evil Spirits of Japan

Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they me...

Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene

A man who uses marriage as bait goes from woman to woman, and then a horrific murder is committed for money. Se...

The Story of Pure Love

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society...

Police Precinct: The Woman Without A Face

A tragic drama - a dismembered torso of a woman rises up on the banks of the Arakawa River. The body is only th...

Main Line to Terror

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that...

Yukiko

Momoe's Lips: Love Beast

This year's Record Award was decided to go to popular singer Natsu Akemi. Yoshioka, the president of the produc...

The Navy

A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to f...

Deep River Melody

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.

The Bastards of Lawless Town

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

Police Precinct Part 14

An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, informed the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a...

Long Journey into Love

A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to ano...

Elegy of the North

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsur...

When the Cookie Crumbles

Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.

遙かなる母の顔

Admiral Borneo: Betting at the Equator

Takeo (Kiniya Kitaoji), son of a wealthy car industry executive, is unhappy with his job and goes to Singapore...

Challenge Beneath the Waves

1960 Toei action film.

Fire Line

Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicat...

Kanshō fujin

Japanese drama film.

Moonlight Mask: The Last Death of the Devil

The sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s.

幽霊列車

Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?

French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist Richard So...

Lady's Triangle

Shishun no izumi

The long-awaited haymaking season has arrived on the island of Honshu. Work is in full swing in the fields, wit...

Moonlight Mask: The Challenging Ghost

Fifth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Widow's Bedroom

Widow's Bedroom is an erotic drama that focuses on a depressed innkeeper, recently widowed by suicide, whose li...

The Fox With Nine Tails

Tobimaru is the young emperor of Japan. He meets a mysterious woman named Tomamo. After successfully seducing T...