Shōji Yasui

Akō Rōshi

"Ako Roshi" is a group of 47 former retainers of Lord Asano. Lord Asano was forced to commit suicide after atte...

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...

Konya Uchu no Katasumi de

Set in New York , three friends fall in love with the same woman, causing their feelings to waver between frien...

The Fall of Ako Castle

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of...

The Burmese Harp

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Bud...

The White Rose of Hong Kong

Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong Kong, where...

Rusty Knife

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to...

The Heart

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they...

The Moon Has Risen

Mokichi Asai is a widowed father living in Nara with three daughters—Chizuru, Ayako, and Setsuko. The youngest,...

Siberian Express 2

Good-for-Nothing

Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom...

A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji

The epic battles between the Heike and Genji (Taira and Minamoto clans) take centerstage as the defeated leader...

Honno-Ji in Flames

The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about th...

The Samurai of Edo

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end...

Forbidden Lips

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and si...

Detective

The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal, which take...

Harbor Rats

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the ho...

The Conspirator

Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of on...

Little Tengu

A story about a tomboy, Otoshi, who is good at singing, dancing and fencing.

Nerai uchi buraikan

1962 Japanese movie

Saigo no totsugeki

A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work...

Mahiru no wana

On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest....

The Seasons of Love

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her ch...

Temptation

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One...

Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher

Japanese crime film

Gyakukōsen

Reiko, a free-spirited college girl not bound by social conventions, ends up having an affair with an older, ma...

Blackmail

Zesshou

The story of the tender love between Junki, the son of a wealthy landowner, and Kayuki, the daughter of a fores...

Fangs of Night

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to se...

The Yagyu Military Art: One Eyed Swordsman

In the fourth film in this exciting series, and the first since losing his left eye, Yagyu Jubei is charged aga...

Love in the Mountains

A mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl who does not k...

Mist and Shadows

A veteran reporter and a young journalist doggedly pursue clues through sheer persistence and intuition to unra...

Yakuza Princess of Edo

Tsukitaro, a young man who comes to Edo, meets a blind girl named Ochiyo. Ochiyo’s father, the grinder Yasujiro...

A Warrior Generation

Yearning

Set during the Meiji period (1868-1912), Kaede is the former mistress of a wealthy merchant. When he dies, she...

The Black Current

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden repo...