Minoru Chiaki

Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection fr...

High and Low

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but dem...

Ikiru

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

Rashomon

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Throne of Blood

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their...

The Hidden Fortress

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated ar...

Stray Dog

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Despe...

The Lower Depths

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor,...

Godzilla Raids Again

Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new mons...

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun,...

The Idiot

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tang...

The Face of Another

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask starts altering...

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

Kaji, sent to the Japanese army labeled Red, witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive tr...

Scandal

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a f...

I Live in Fear

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

The Inheritance

A dying businessman intends to will ¥200 million to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme...

The Christian Revolt

In Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of cha...

A House in the Quarter

With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel i...

Little Peach

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until sh...

A Wife's Heart

A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't...

Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella

Ryutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the murder of a jail...

Uogashi no senpū musume

1963 Japanese movie

Sunflower Girl

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys...

Cold Rice, Osan, Chan

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make mo...

Vendetta of a Samurai

Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.

A Carpenter and Children

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate w...

Mother's First Love

A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who...

Hero of the Red Light District

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

Sasuke and His Comedians

Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wand...

Gray Sunset

Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he is affected...

Love Under the Crucifix

A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feuda...

20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2

The second film in the 20 Duels of Young Shingo trilogy directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda.

Eight Views of Samurai

Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a da...

Till Tomorrow Is

Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attempted surgery...

The Vampire Moth

The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.

Tokugawa Ichizoku no Houkai