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Oogonju
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love...
The Idiot
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to...
Drunken Angel
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is...
Equinox Flower
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells...
Good Morning
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But...
Taira Clan Saga
Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows...
The Woman in the Rumor
A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.
Portrait of Madame Yuki
After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the...
Goryokaku
After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese...
Godzilla vs. Biollante
A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.
Cruel Story of Youth
Umineko ga tonde
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to...
Zero Focus
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...
Brother and Sister
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
The Snow Flurry
Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.
Beautiful Days
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...
Farewell to Dream
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.
A Billionaire
Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.
The Eternal Rainbow
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
The Garden of Women
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...
Spring Dreams
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...
Thus Another Day
A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...
Daredevil in the Castle
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
Spring Awakens
A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.
Elegy of the North
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He...
Samurai Banners
Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.
Four Love Stories
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Love Letter
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...
An Inlet of Muddy Water
In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life -- presents...
Yellow Crow
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Japanese drama
Mune yori mune ni
This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.
Tokyo Fair Weather
In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly......
119
2000 live-action Japanese film.
As the River Flows
A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.
Okoge
Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.
The Paths of Two Maidens
1950 Japanese movie
Guntō nanban-sen
Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but...
Nowhere Man
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
Till We Meet Again
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...
The Angry Street
Japanese noir.
Rinchi
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
The Rose on His Arm
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...
Ballad of a Workman
A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post...
Whirlwind
Japanese comedy film.
Akireta musumetachi
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several...
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Japanese drama film.
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
Kantarou Kobayashi is an ordinary businessman who has multiple troubles on hand. He's been having an affair with a woman working in the same company,...
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home.
Woman Unveiled
A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is...
Delinquent Girl
Honoo no hada
An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly...
This Way, That Way
The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.
The Bitch
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...
Mother Country
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...
Women in Prison
The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's...
A Case of Honor
Ai Sureba Koso
Haitoku no mesu
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...
Jakoman and Tetsu
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent...
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
If two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly wished, and the two who cried under the harsh trials...
Reunion