Sumiko Hidaka

Uzushio

The 4th NHK Asadora. Starring Michiko Hayashi as a woman born in poverty who lives a brave life. She lost her h...

Farewell to the Land

Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons,...

Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro

The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi...

Double Suicide

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social...

The Twilight Story

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing mother. Whi...

Akitsu Hot Springs

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Night Drum

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his hom...

The Street Without Sun

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large...

The Great Road

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the w...

All of Myself

The daughter of a former Miss Universe winner finds success as a fashion model in Tokyo following the death of...

The Last True Yakuza

A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and betrayal ins...

Miniature

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to t...

Seven Masks of Revenge

The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when h...

Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka

Chubei, the adopted son of an Osaka courier, falls desperately in love with the courtesan Umegawa. To prevent a...

At the Time Men Have Seen Blood

A group of men obsessed with oil gather in a remote oil field region. Ichiro Kitazawa (Tatsuzaki) was one of th...

A Design for Dying

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsu...

Flower and Dragon: Duel of the Sea Caves

The sequel of "Flower and Dragon". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unites people wi...

白い南風

1961 Japanese movie

Dedication of the Great Buddha

The film depicts how the work to build the Great Buddha overcame a number of obstacles as proponents and oppone...

Wakai hito-tachi

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

Foul Play

Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysteriou...

Evil Reward

After finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was sent by his wi...

The Flower and the Dragon

A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of...

Sisters of Nishijin

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

Clouds at Sunset

A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a y...

Hole in One

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she...

Actress

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

Echo in the Mountains

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" s...

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

Bitter End of a Sweet Night

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he ca...

Souls in the Moonlight

First part of the famous Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy, based on Kaizan Nakazato’s unfinished long series of novels...

Yakuza of Ina

Tossing his hat in the air to pick a direction, Yataro the wanderer sets out on a journey of adventure, not kno...

Magistrate Ooka’s Legends

A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic.

Claws of Iron

During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle....

The Mad Fox

A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appears to be on...