Sōnosuke Oda

Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu

August Without Emperor

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V...

Demon Pond

When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool...

Call from Darkness

Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case involving th...

Black Lizard

A detective tries to outwit an art loving thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquis...

Tora-san's Love in Osaka

When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her...

Blackmail Is My Life

Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of h...

The Greatest Challenge of All

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just...

Suspicion

A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business m...

Miyamoto Musashi

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing becaus...

A Trap

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty,...

Samurai from Nowhere

Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting...

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...

The Last Samurai

The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after hi...

Shadow of Deception

It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She now lives in...

A Country Boss

A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.

The X from Outer Space

The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and...

The Beauty of the Black Narcissus

The Blazing Sword

Set during the last days of the Tokugawa (Edo) Period, Moeyo-ken tells the story of Hijikata Toshizo and the Sh...

Rainbow Over Paris

A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies to Paris wh...

Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher

Japanese crime film

The Image of Mother

A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistr...

The Shy Deceiver

A young thug wanna-be yakuza falls in love with a country girl.

Tora-san's Cherished Mother

Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.

Rebellion of Japan

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives f...

Price of Life

Comedy of a phony doctor.

Watch Out, Crimson Bat!

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its des...

Echigo jishi-sai

1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo

As the Clouds Scatter

A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, whic...

The Faceless Man

Okada, who had escaped death in the duel, suffered the greatest humiliation in the presence of his beloved Fumi...

The Ghostly Trip

The 10th film in the travel series. The original work and screenplay is by Kazuo Funahashi, the director is Sho...

Zokuzoku bantōhan to detchidon

1961 Japanese movie

Women Can't Be Beaten

An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish old...

Fun on the Run

Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.

Tora-san's Grand Scheme

After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly...

Dislikes

An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of ch...