Michio Kida

Professional Killers

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that intro...

Special Crime Investigation Front

Operation: Mystery

The Science Research Institute (SRI) investigates assorted strange phenomenon in Japan.

Dreams

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

Rhapsody in August

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

Heaven Station

From a true incident that happened in 1960's Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its c...

Okoge

A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.

I'm All Yours

A beautiful day Rokurou, a student, was to masturbate when a beautiful girl knocks on his door: You need a girl...

The Yen Family

Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of...

Third Generation Boss

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi i...

Tora-san's Runaway

After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his...

Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū

Comedy movie

Local Reporter

Lanterns on Blue Waters

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to supp...

Zoku sararīman yajikita dōchū

1961 Japanese movie

Your Favourite

The Dream Girl

Yumi worked at a small snack bar called Bacchus, tucked away in a corner of the city. Before long, she had gath...

Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū

1962 Japanese movie

Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl

When the 'Lowly Ronin' helps an orphaned teenage girl avoid being turned into a prostitute, she then claims he...

Checkers in Tan Tan tanuki

Seven raccoons with supernatural powers sneak into a freight train, disguise themselves as humans, and head to...

Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Ghost of Kasane Swamp

On a snowy winter night, Soetsu, a blind masseur, and his daughter Shiga visit the nobleman Shinzaemon Fukami....

金語楼の成金王

Japanese comedy film.

Just One Time

Won Jury's Special Award at the Turin International Film Festival of Young Cinema 1993

Attention Please

First Japanese TV drama about flight attendants.