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A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiko Matsuda

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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

Genre: War

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world's biggest and most formidable battleship,...

Genre: War

Cast: Masaki Suda

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

In 1974, Morikazu is 94 years old and his wife Hideko is 76 years old. They live at a house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The garden at their home is full of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist....

Genre: Family

Cast: Mirai Shida

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A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

An ambitious businessman knocks up his mistress with fraternal twins. He keeps the boy but sends his bodyguard to dispose of the mother and the girl....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Kozue

Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Caroline Ferrus

Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—form a friendship through their love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuri Chinen

Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo's life seemed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

A story of lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

In the early Showa era, Japan’s first women’s law school opens, and the protagonist, Inotsume Tomoko (Ito Sairi), gains nationwide...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sairi Ito

When a certain man is released from prison, he knows exactly where he's heading first. After falling in love with a traditional comic storyteller's...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Tomokazu Seki

Shōwa Monogatari is a 2011 Japanese anime film and television series about the Yamazaki family, who live in Tokyo during Shōwa 39, the same year...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Shoya Chiba

Two different students - a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent - form a friendship through their love for music.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Yuuka Nanri

Unique monsters that suddenly began to appear all over the world from the beginning of the 20th century. At first, human beings tried to resist, but...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Kouji Imai

During the heyday of women's pro wrestling in bubble-era Japan, Dump Matsumoto bursts into the ring, shattering norms and turning the nation against...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuriyan Retriever

In 1979 Tokyo, four distinct sisters uncover their aging father's affair, causing their happy facades and bottled-up emotions to slowly unravel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rie Miyazawa

Kitarō is a yōkai boy born in a cemetery, and aside from his mostly-decayed father, the last living member of the Ghost tribe. He is missing his...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Masako Nozawa

Based on the manga by Ritsu Miyako, this unique drama pairs a penniless detective with a razor-sharp eye for detail with a mysterious woman who can...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ouji Suzuka

Set during the early Showa period, Yakumo enters the world of rakugo. He forms a friendship with talented storyteller Yurakutei. Yakumo admires...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Ryusei