Shirō Ōtsuji

Ohanahan

The 6th NHK Asadora. Starring Fumie Kashiyama as a woman, born in the Meiji era, who raises a family by herself.

Ten Dark Women

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woma...

Samurai Assassin

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of...

Buddha

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

Blind Woman's Curse

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the e...

A Lustful Man

Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that...

The Radiant Prince

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

The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords

The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film featur...

The Scarlet Camellia

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so...

A Modern Yakuza: The Code of the Lawless

Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and i...

Being Two Isn't Easy

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well...

The Gentle Japanese

A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle en...

Kanto Woman Fortitude

Ōkuma Shigenobu the great

The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of...

The Red Water

Comedy drama film

Cut the Shadow

The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learn...

A Woman's Testament

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financi...

Heiji, the Detective

Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into t...

Gonin no totsugeki tai

Prison Tales

The Glamorous Ghost

Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous hu...

Fūshinraishin

1962 Japanese movie

The Sea Anemone

The story of a sexy girl with a passion for attracting men and counting the money she entices from them with he...

Could I But Live

Could I But Live

Gorgeous Leopardess

Wakai yatsura no kaidan

1961 Japanese movie

The Money Dance

Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it e...

Konto 55: Mankind's Weaknesses

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakag...

Admiral Borneo: Betting at the Equator

Takeo (Kiniya Kitaoji), son of a wealthy car industry executive, is unhappy with his job and goes to Singapore...

Nami kage

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2

Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes...

Life of Matsu the Untamed

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

The False Student

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

Nuregami botan

The Day the Sun Rose

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan,...

Traveling in Party

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.