Movies

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the...

In a provincial Japanese town, an entrepreneurial sanitation collector is drawn into the world of local politics, only to discover that the...

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

After their lord is unjustly sentenced to commit seppuku, Oishi Kuranosuke leads a group of 47 loyal retainers on a mission of vengeance against the...

After their lord is unjustly sentenced to commit seppuku, Oishi Kuranosuke leads a group of 47 loyal retainers on a mission of vengeance against the...

Chikako, who was living in a room at a temple affiliated with Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto while attending a women’s college, was deeply shocked when...

Comedy about a dress designer at a big Tokyo department store, and his relationship with three female associates.

A Japanese film from 1965, directed by Shirô Toyoda.

The 22nd film in the Ekimae series about shop-owners living near Akabane Station, Tokyo.

The life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of India, China and Tibet, then uses their...

​Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named...

Set in a rural town in Yamaguchi Prefecture, this comedy centers on a young couple determined to pursue their love against all opposition, while also...

Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history...

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means...

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old...

In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the...