Michiyo Yasuda

Zatoichi

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he...

Kogarashi Monjiro

Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown w...

Ōedo Sōsamō

Set against the backdrop of the reign of the 11th Tokugawa Shogun, Ienari Tokugawa, this drama is a masterpiece...

Bedtime Eyes

Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second ra...

Zigeunerweisen

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose roma...

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fi...

Kagero-za

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

Spring Snow

Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled a...

Solar Eclipse

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and eve...

Hanging Garden

On the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they are all open wi...

I Never Shot Anyone

Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull nove...

BU・SU

Mugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to live and work...

Yumeji

Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a bea...

The Projects

Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, there's always...

The Fallen Angel

The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he...

The Little Runaway

During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning...

Mission: Iron Castle

The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the...

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage

Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village t...

Someday

The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's life is throw...

Love for an Idiot

A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to...

The Sex Check

Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken...

Assignment Dragon No. 3

In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugu...

Freezing Point

Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and...

The Detective Journey

A comedy directed by Mitsumasa Saito about a pair of clumsy detectives who solve a case they become involved in...

Autumn Blossoms

Tekken

A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer...

Akame 48 Waterfalls

A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds...

Comedy: Love and Justice Among Cheaters

Ex-conman Junpei plots revenge on a corrupt corporation by leading a team of swindlers posing as politicians. A...

Kanto Woman Fortitude

New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line

The story is presented as a voiced-over narrative by Arita (Takahiro Tamura), speaking long after the events of...

Naked Ambition

Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful...

Fate Deals the Card of Death

Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and they promi...

Location

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set...

I'm Flash!

Rui is the charismatic leader of a new religious group. Consequently, he starts to gain attention from the mass...

The Two in Tracksuits

A son quits his job and is persuaded by his father to head off to a cottage in the remote mountains. Together,...

Seiko Matsuda's Sweet Memories