Michio Hino

Rope Hell

Akiko is the heir to a yakuza clan. Hitoshi, who has been kicked out of the rival Hono Clan after attempting to...

Dreams

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

Dodes'ka-den

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an ima...

Tokyo Drifter

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top o...

Fighting Elegy

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a...

Spring Dreams

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are...

Erotic Diary of an Office Lady

Asami Ogawa in her first leading role as an office lady with a healthy sexual appetite who grows bored with the...

Miniature

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to t...

W's Tragedy

A young theatre actress fights for her uncertain career while having to confront the personal sacrifices that w...

My Second Brother

The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling...

The Sands of Kurobe

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

Tattooed Life

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

Rinbu

Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's novel, "La Ronde", many people are having sex in a variety of ways. A girl and...

Break Down that Wall

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Wind and waves of the South

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only...

A Secret Rendezvous

After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of ex...

Bloody Territories

A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to p...

Girl in the Glass

This film depicts the pure love between a girl raised by a strict father and a young man working in a small fac...

Memories of You

A mother discovers that her 14-year-old daughter Yumi has leukemia and only six months to live. She decides to...

Wait for Tomorrow

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first oppor...

Wet Vase

Naomi Tani plays bar-owner Aki, whose entire world appears to be crumbing whenever she discovers her husband is...

Wakai hito-tachi

Only on Mondays

Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executiv...

The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met b...

Navy

Japanese war film.

Carmen from Kawachi

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko...

The Long Death

On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employee...

Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter

Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, s...

A Chain of Islands

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he...

Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventuall...

Temptation

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One...

Morning Fog

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and...

Teenage Wolf

In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a young girl!...

Otona to kodomo no ainoko dai

Hana to musume to shiroi michi

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

Greatest Boss of Japan

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underwor...