Takeshi Katō

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series

Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection fr...

High and Low

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but dem...

Akō Rōshi

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

Kimi no na wa

A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.

Ran

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an agi...

Life of a Flower

The story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke.

Choudenshi Bioman

Five descendants of the people showered with Bio Particles by Bio Robots five centuries in the past have become...

Yojimbo

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen...

Throne of Blood

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their...

Iki no Iiyatsu

Set in a sushi restaurant in Tokyo shortly after the end of the war, the story follows a stubborn, old-fashione...

The Hidden Fortress

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated ar...

Natchan no shashinkan

The 25th NHK Asadora. Nishiki Natsuko is a woman who strives to become a photographer.

Hana no Asuka-gumi!

While the adults were devouring the country in peace the young girls are now plunging into the Sengoku Period....

Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin

A human drama based on the "Date Riots".

The Bad Sleep Well

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese...

Japan Sinks

In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disast...

XX: Beautiful Weapon

A blind female assassin lives alone in a remote house; her superiors occasionally send her "clients" / targets...

Japan's Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the governmen...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war betwee...

The Inugami Family

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that s...

Odin: Starlight Mutiny

Odin centers around the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on an historic...

Ninja, A Band of Assassins

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulat...

Godzilla 1985

Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "God...

Queen Bee

To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country es...

Island of Hell

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

Foundry Town

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dr...

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of...

Fighting Elegy

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a...

An Inlet of Muddy Water

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from th...

Battle of the Japan Sea

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet an...

Dora-heita

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile an...

Four Days of Snow and Blood

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist par...

Pigs and Battleships

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation perio...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his c...