Reiko Dan

Red Beard

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his fir...

Sanjuro

In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warri...

Chûshingura

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to av...

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes l...

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance pol...

The End of Summer

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health afte...

The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung

The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who...

Fort Graveyard

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate...

The Age of Assassins

A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad as...

Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period

Sixth entry in the Company President Series.

Pride of the Campus

Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band,...

The Beast Shall Die

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of hi...

The Masterless 47

Part one of The Masterless 47.

The Masterless 47 – Part II

A Sandcastle Model Family Home

An opportune salaryman moves his family into a model mansion for 12 months; unfortunately, they must allow pros...

Lovers of Ginza

1961 Japanese movie

Japan's No. 1 Playboy

The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but d...

The Capital of Love

Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disap...

Holiday in Tokyo

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels...

The Wiser Age

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Playboy President: Part II

After a promotion brings new professional challenges, a diligent employee is pulled into corporate matchmaking...

The Maid Story

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry...

Romance Express

Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In t...

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

1958 Japanese movie

Star of Hong Kong

Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter wit...

All About Marriage

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified...

The Naked Executive

The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess...

This Greedy Old Skin

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) ta...

Playboy President

A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intended to reviv...

Irresponsible Age of Japan

An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.

Master Fencer Sees the World

A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light com...

Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai

Ensemble comedy.

Oban kanketsu hen

Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’...

The Third President

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

Assistant President

Fifty-Fifty

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.