2005

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade

6.546/152

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a...

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Shinobi: Heart Under Blade

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora!

7.175/521

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...

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Tora! Tora! Tora!

1965

Kwaidan

7.7/362

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit...

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Kwaidan

1963

High and Low

8.318/847

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his servants son is kidnapped

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High and Low

1961

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

8.3/171

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life,...

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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

1963

The Insect Woman

7.383/64

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imam...

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The Insect Woman

1979

Taro the Dragon Boy

6.1/15

Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a...

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Taro the Dragon Boy

1968

Profound Desires of the Gods

7.398/59

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.

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Profound Desires of the Gods

2005

Henshin

6/1

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Henshin

1979

The Man Who Stole the Sun

7.273/33

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks...

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The Man Who Stole the Sun

1964

Yearning

8.142/60

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly bui...

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Yearning

1989

Black Rain

7.491/110

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic b...

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Black Rain

1964

Night Scandal in Japan

0/0

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the stock market,...

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Night Scandal in Japan

2001

Darkness in the Light

5.8/2

A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer...

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Darkness in the Light

1967

Impasse

6.385/13

Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by a...

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Impasse

1977

The Wild Daisy

0/0

Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections ensue...

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The Wild Daisy

1964

The Scent of Incense

6.9/8

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life d...

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The Scent of Incense

2006

Japan Sinks

5.5/30

In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with othe...

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Japan Sinks

1964

The Hunter's Diary

3.5/2

Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He e...

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The Hunter's Diary

1981

Why Not?

6.4/15

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...

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Why Not?

2001

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

6.536/42

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

2006

Island of Light

8/2

Hiromi, attends junior high school in Tokyo. The combination of getting bullied on campus and her fathers death causes her to stop attending school. O...

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Island of Light

1975

Solar Eclipse

6.8/5

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.

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Solar Eclipse

1979

White Love

0/0

Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the family. She fell in love with her language teache...

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White Love

1965

Cold Rice, Osan, Chan

6.4/5

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan

1982

The Longest Tunnel

0/0

After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this...

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The Longest Tunnel

1988

Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident

0/0

TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV...

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Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident

1999

Amateur Singing Contest

5/4

Traditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for amateur singers along with a confused teenager (Ôtomo) and...

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Amateur Singing Contest

1989

Company Executives

6/4

A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.

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Company Executives

1997

Free and Easy 9

7.3/3

Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposite of carefree, irresponsible Hama-chan. The veter...

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Free and Easy 9

1995

Shohei Imamura: The Free Thinker

7/1

Documentary about Japanese film director Shohei Imamura.

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Shohei Imamura: The Free Thinker

1974

Touch of Love

0/0

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Touch of Love

1971

Wakare no uta

0/0

Richness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted.

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Wakare no uta

1966

I'll Never Cry!

0/0

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in...

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I'll Never Cry!

1964

Warrior of the Wind

6.688/8

A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find the...

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Warrior of the Wind

1964

Whirlpool of Flesh

0/0

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much...

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Whirlpool of Flesh

1981

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

6.932/44

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

1975

Wings of Love

0/0

Japanese drama film.

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Wings of Love

1972

Summer Soldiers

6/4

The plight of U.S. Army deserters from Vietnam on the run in Japan, centering on the culture clash between the troubled Americans and the Japanese who...

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Summer Soldiers

1964

Intentions of Murder

7.083/42

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect o...

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Intentions of Murder

1965

A Chain of Islands

6.4/5

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncov...

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A Chain of Islands

1967

Three Seconds to Zero Hour

6.4/5

“I like shady dealings,” purrs undercover superspy Yabuki en route to infiltrating a sadistic, trigger-happy gang of international jewel thieves. Gone...

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Three Seconds to Zero Hour

1963

Ukyunosuke on Patrol

7/1

This is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of earlier efforts, and concentrates on an excellent stor...

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Ukyunosuke on Patrol

1964

Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut

6/1

In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to avenge his father's death continues. His discovery of...

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Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut

2001

Yakuza Ladies 11

0/0

When her husband is betrayed by his fellow yakuza and jailed, his wife takes over and fights to prevent his expulsion from the clan.

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Yakuza Ladies 11

1983

The Geisha

6.3/7

Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it w...

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The Geisha

1982

Lake of Illusions

1/1

A woman works as a prostitute and attendant to make a living at a bathhouse. She is athletic and is an avid runner. She has met and adopted a white do...

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Lake of Illusions

1972

The Pirates of Buban

6.5/6

By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under the...

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The Pirates of Buban

1972

My Voiceless Friends

0/0

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.

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My Voiceless Friends

1979

Vengeance Is Mine

7.523/130

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

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Vengeance Is Mine

1988

Green Requiem

0/0

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Green Requiem

1969

Vixen

6.2/4

Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to swi...

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Vixen

1966

Warm Current

0/0

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Warm Current

1953

An Inlet of Muddy Water

6.1/7

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...

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An Inlet of Muddy Water

1989

Festival of Dreams

0/0

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Festival of Dreams

1967

Japan's Longest Day

7.135/26

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies...

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Japan's Longest Day

1968

The Great Villains

1/1

Psychological action drama about the activities of a corrupt lawyer.

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The Great Villains

1969

The Woman Killer

0/0

Japanese crime film.

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The Woman Killer

1960

The Lovelorn Geisha

6.6/5

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in hi...

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The Lovelorn Geisha

1966

The Pornographers

7.28/41

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, H...

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The Pornographers

1968

Neon taiheiki

0/0

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Neon taiheiki

1992

Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1

6/1

There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his family without running water or electricity. He ha...

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Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1

1991

The Shootist 3

0/0

The biggest crisis has come to Matsushita, a shootist who has passed through numerous shrines!

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The Shootist 3

1968

Women and Miso Soup

0/0

Temari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her little brother.

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Women and Miso Soup

1969

Only Child

0/0

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Only Child

1964

Night Scandal

0/0

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Night Scandal

1991

Heat Wave

5.8/11

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.

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Heat Wave

1990

Tales of a Golden Geisha

6.417/12

The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her...

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Tales of a Golden Geisha

1965

The Soundless Cry

8/1

Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works i...

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The Soundless Cry

1965

That Cute Girl

0/0

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That Cute Girl

2003

女はバス停で服を着替えた

0/0

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女はバス停で服を着替えた

1962

Till Tomorow Comes

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Till Tomorow Comes

2008

Beauty

0/0

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Beauty

1971

Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai

0/0

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Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai

1970

The Militarists

8/1

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The Militarists

1962

Fresh Leaves

0/0

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr....

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Fresh Leaves

1962

Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko

1974

Moeru otoko Nagashima Shigeo: eikō no se-bangō 3

0/0

Documentary on baseball player Shigeo Nagashima

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Moeru otoko Nagashima Shigeo: eikō no se-bangō 3

1959

The Rokumeikan

0/0

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.

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The Rokumeikan

1961

The Rokumeikan

0/0

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.

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The Rokumeikan

1978

Monument to Holy Service

0/0

A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.

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Monument to Holy Service