Osamu Maruyama

Princess Yang Kwei-fei

In 8th-century China, the Emperor grieves the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor w...

Street of Shame

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostit...

Floating Weeds

A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with d...

Gamera, the Giant Monster

A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ic...

Buddha

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search o...

The Blind Menace

This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi.

The Radiant Prince

Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to...

The Snowy Heron

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, he...

Lightning

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family w...

Punishment Room

Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug tw...

Jōen

1959 Japanese movie

Night Butterflies

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

Diary of a Mad Old Man

Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while h...

Kirai Kirai Kirai

Morning Whistling

Black Weapon

Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi.

The False Student

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Nocturne of a Woman

A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye...

Mother

Farewell Song

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch

Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orpha...

Jū nana-sai no dangai

1957 Japanese movie

A Killed Stewardess: White or Black

Sound in the Mist

In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time...

Princess and I

1962 Japanese movie

Hit and Run Gang

Detective Goto, who had sniffed out drugs as the culprit behind the murder of an elderly woman, was run over an...

Teppo Yasu no Shogai

1962 Japanese movie

Bronze Magician

A story loosely based on the affair between Empress Kōken-Shōtoku and the monk Dōkyō, set during the Nara perio...

Sutekina 16-sai

1962 Japanese movie

Chikaiteshi

Order of Yakuza

Order of Yakuza

A Storm Zone

The Diary of a Sex Counsellor

The Grave Tells All

Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that are thrust...

Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree

Yano Reiko is a part-time student. After being introduced by a well-known classmate, she becomes the tutor for...

A Secret Night