Yasumi Hara

Operation: Mystery

The Science Research Institute (SRI) investigates assorted strange phenomenon in Japan.

Mandala

Two university students from Kyoto decide to swap partners and spend the night in an isolated motel. However, o...

Tower of Lilies

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the...

The Militarists

Lucky Dragon No. 5

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka...

Akio Jissoji's Ultraman

Akio Jissoji's Ultraman is a 1979 Japanese tokusatsu kaiju film directed by Akio Jissoji. It is a compilation f...

Dotanba

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A so...

Blue Lake Girl

Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover’s suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa...

Here Is a Spring

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for...

Hiroshima

Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its eff...

Army

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstandi...

The Living Magoroku

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs a...

If Indeed One Loves

The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir. Kozab...

Town of Violence

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the l...

Yukiko

At the End of the Clouds

A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.

The Girl I Loved

A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of th...

The Angry Street

University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into givi...

Mune yori mune ni

Japanese drama

Poem

A rigidly devoted young servant lives in a decaying aristocratic household as its members drift toward modernit...

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

Otome no iru kichi

Japanese war movie.

Listen to the Voices of the Sea

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldie...

The End of a Day

Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The officer in co...

I Want to Be a Shellfish

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a ba...

Wakai hito-tachi

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...

Island of Fury

Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up in the Inlan...

The Spy Has Not Died Yet

Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice

A decadent count in 1920′s Japan becomes obsessed with the life and works of the Marquis de Sade. He creates a...

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

Man in the Storm

Returning from wartime China, Keiichi reunites with his mother Inako and adopted sister Tomi. He becomes drawn...

Navy

Japanese war film.

Sad Whistling

A young girl searches for her long-lost brother in postwar Tokyo, clinging to hope and music amid the rubble of...

A Killed Stewardess: White or Black

Flower

Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and g...