Isao Hashimoto

A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating subject. The huge tents and life-threatening...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masashi Sada

A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

"Young People" is a story about the lives of four brothers and a sister, Sato. After the death of his parents, the older brother, Taro, who works in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

The second film tells about the life of matured brothers and sister Sato. Taro became a foreman. He saves every yen to fulfill his dream of building...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

The final part of the trilogy. It is about a younger brother, Suekichi. He learned well the lessons that life taught his older brothers. Therefore,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domen. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mikijiro Hira

Kizaki, who moved to Tokyo from the Kansai region to become a manga artist, is assigned to work at a used electrical appliance store where he works...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michitaka Tsutsui

Comedy centered on a stripper agency

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Takarada

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaomi Kondo

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being...

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Cast: Ai Saotome

A woman's life is irrevocably altered when a young murderer stumbles into her home.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yuko Hama

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kensaku Morita

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Meiko Kaji

The last judgment.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

The Ebara family, a typical middle-class family living in downtown Tokyo. When her mother-in-law sold a mountain, a large amount of 70 million yen...

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Cast: Kyuji Aozora

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

This film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue, which tells the story of a comedian who teams up with a strange man he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tamori

Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Fujita

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

A film adaptation of the novel of the same title written by Hiroshi Hatayama (畑山博).

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Kazu

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Cast: Hiroshi Katsuno