Michio Hino

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshitaka Zushi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jō Shishido

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu"...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mugihito

Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Kaga

Akiko is the heir to a yakuza clan. Hitoshi, who has been kicked out of the rival Hono Clan after attempting to seduce Akiko, kidnaps her at the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Naomi Tani

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Ôta

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's novel, "La Ronde", many people are having sex in a variety of ways. A girl and her boyfriend go to a pool bar where...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rumi Takahara

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a...

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Cast: Masako Izumi

Asami Ogawa in her first leading role as an office lady with a healthy sexual appetite who grows bored with the limited choices that society offers...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Asami Ogawa

A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yumiko Nogawa

The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening credits...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Hearing that his friend Yosuke Tsumura had died, Shiro Okabe returned to Kyoto. He felt that Yusuke's wife, Yusuke Tsumura's former love Yuko, knew...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a young girl! A gloomy portrait of youth, in which...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

Japanese war film.

Genre: War

Cast: Kazuko Aoyama

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kumiko Goto

On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kinzō Shin

Naomi Tani plays bar-owner Aki, whose entire world appears to be crumbing whenever she discovers her husband is having an affair along with her own...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naomi Tani

Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while alone...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Tanaka

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of exposing their affair.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yōko Katsuragi

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...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Noboru Nakaya

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jūkichi Uno

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masako Izumi

A young girl is striving for stardom. In order to get a lead role in a new production, she agrees to stand-in for a famous star whose rich patron...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroko Yakushimaru

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mariko Okada

A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Akira Terao

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koreya Senda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Wada

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Cast: Nobuko Otowa