Akira Yamanouchi

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

Waiting woman

Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to...

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Soft-Boiled Goro is a 1970 film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries....

An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to consume pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid...

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

Shuzenji Monogatari (The Mask and Destiny) is based on a 12th-century Japanese legend. An abortive royal romance leads to an escalating series of...

A unique depiction of the awakening of male and female sexuality in youth.

Kazuhiko, a game software planner, resigns and decides to go independent after a trade secret leak to a rival company.

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood.

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's...

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.

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government...

1962 Japanese movie

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into...

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His...

Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters!

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.

Japanese war film.

1962 Japanese movie

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

Four henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They divide 1.2 million yen from Ryu's bag into 4 parts...

Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry...

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...

Shochiku melodrama about the lives of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso.

1956 Japanese movie

1956 Japanese movie

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the...

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...

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

A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming...

An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the...

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...

French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist Richard Sorge, who was executed in 1944 after he...

Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream...

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko...

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a...

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Filmed in a documentary style, six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and...

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener.

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his old life, he faces great...

Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading, middle-aged marriage.

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

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...

The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the American troops began landing on the Saipan island. On...

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro...

1961 Japanese movie

The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese...

1956 Japanese movie

1956 Japanese movie

Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now fallen on hard times. Tamiko wants to marry her...

1964 Japanese movie

Koichi Haruyama, who works at the Morita Automobile Factory, was driving a convertible through Ginza in search of accident sites. He buys cars that...

A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police...

Set in Toyohashi, the fifth and final installment of the ‘The Wanderer’ series sees Kobayashi Akira delve into the mystery of a friend's death.

1961 Japanese movie

A short time after the war in Tokyo. Hamana, who was formerly a military police officer, had fallen into the role of a black market broker and had...

After being discharged from the military, Kenzo, convinced of his older brother Kenichi’s innocence—who had been executed five years earlier for...

A private detective chases a female pickpocket into a film studio and dashes through the sets. With special appearances by a star-studded cast.

A beautiful tale of teacher-student love between a pure-hearted female teacher and a group of wild boys unfolds on the banks of a river in a mountain...

Eiji Izutsu, a young architectural engineer, suddenly came into a massive inheritance on the condition that he marry a woman named Chigusa Takemura,...