Teruo Wakatsuki

Rival bands of pirates try to get hold of a priceless treasure.

First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series.

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's...

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.

Comedy-horror film by Masaki Môri.

1962 Japanese movie

A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a smart young boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to others' needs,...

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the...

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.

Japanese comedy film.

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

Kotaro Shimoyama, once a government official, loses his job and separates from his wife, Sachie. He now resides with his daughter, Haruko. By chance,...

The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru...

Shizuko Kasagi and Hideko Takamine star as young women who try to raise money for a needy old friend by becoming wandering singers who work for tips...

On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped...

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called...

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up...

Fictionalized retelling of the life of a Geisha poisoner.

The four-member con group, including the intellectual boss Nobukichi Ishiguro (Masayuki Mori), who is called an "aristocrat con man" for his elegant...

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.

A once-dead man is resurrected by a mysterious old man's spiritual magic to take revenge on those who killed him. An unusual and bizarre historical...

Yumiko, the president's daughter, meets a suspicious woman after her wedding ceremony with Tamio.