Japan Movies

The main character Toru Norimiya who became an adult without having the courage to love depicts what will change as a result of reunion with former Bandman's old friend Takuya Sato and encounter with poetry.

Yokogao is a movie starring Mariko Tsutsui, Mikako Ichikawa, and Sôsuke Ikematsu. A home-care nurse's relationship with the family she has spent years working for is threatened when her nephew is arrested for kidnapping their...

Madamu to nyôbô is a movie starring Atsushi Watanabe, Kinuyo Tanaka, and Mitsuko Ichimura. A writer struggles to finish his story against many distractions, but the jazz party next door proves to be too much.

Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo is a movie starring Tatsuo Saitô, Tomio Aoki, and Mitsuko Yoshikawa. Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn't the most important man in his workplace.

A kabuki actor's mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lover's son.

A friendly bus driver and his passengers over the duration of one journey through the mountains to the nearest train station.

Naniwa erejî is a movie starring Isuzu Yamada, Seiichi Takegawa, and Chiyoko Ôkura. A young woman becomes a mistress of her boss in order to support her family.

Hitori musuko is a movie starring Chôko Iida, Shin'ichi Himori, and Masao Hayama. A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.

Gion no shimai is a movie starring Isuzu Yamada, Yôko Umemura, and Benkei Shiganoya. Two geisha sisters lead a hard life in the Gion district of Kyoto. After one of them feels obliged to support a bankrupt businessman, the other...

An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. O

Ninjô kami fûsen is a movie starring Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan'emon Nakamura, and Tsuruzô Nakamura. The lives of two slum neighbors, one of a happy-go-lucky gambler and the other of a poor ronin, converge when the two get involved...

Two blind masseurs travel to a mountain retreat. One of them falls for a visiting lady from Tokyo and investigates a series of thefts.

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.

Uchûjin Tôkyô ni arawaru is a movie starring Keizô Kawasaki, Toyomi Karita, and Bin Yagisawa. UFOs are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them...

Fûsen is a movie starring Shirô Amakusa, Michiyo Aratama, and Izumi Ashikawa. Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a...

A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.

Spending their summer on an exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for.

Neko to Shôzô to futari no onna is a movie starring Hisaya Morishige, Isuzu Yamada, and Kyôko Kagawa. A timid man who has spent much of his life attempting without success to get out from under the domination of his mother, finds...

Nagareru is a movie starring Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, and Hideko Takamine. Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mothers trade in...

Kumonosu-jo is a movie starring Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, and Isuzu Yamada. A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

Tômei ningen to hae otoko is a movie starring Ryûji Shinagawa, Yoshirô Kitahara, and Junko Kanô. A ruthless serial killer with a peculiar method of stalking and killing his victims comes face to face with a police officer turned...

Yûwaku is a movie starring Hideyo Amamoto, Tomio Aoki, and Reiko Arai. The middle-aged Shokichi, shop owner and widower, could never forget his first love. One day, Akiko, a painter, appears in the gallery with the painting titled...

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is actually the love child of her wealthy businessman father and his ex-secretary.

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.

Two friends who witnessed an organized crime murder are threatened by the local mob into keeping quiet.

Nusumareta yokujô is a movie starring Osamu Takizawa, Shin'ichi Yanagisawa, and Hiroyuki Nagato. A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.

Narayama bushikô is a movie starring Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, and Yûko Mochizuki. A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.

Kyojin to gangu is a movie starring Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, and Osamu Abe. In the middle of a fierce commercial competition between three caramel companies, an executive builds up a ditsy teenage girl as a mascot while...

A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.

Kakushi-toride no san-akunin is a movie starring Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, and Minoru Chiaki. Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.

Japanese version of 'Cyrano de Bergerac', a poet/swordsman with a huge nose who loves a woman who loves another. Ignoring his true feelings, he helps them get together.

Ohayô is a movie starring Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, and Chishû Ryû. Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

Jirôchô Fuji is a movie starring Kazuo Hasegawa, Raizô Ichikawa, and Shintarô Katsu. An all-star cast from Daiei Film Company has made "the ultimate Jirocho movie" about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in...

Hiroshima mon amour is a movie starring Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, and Stella Dassas. A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing...

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

Kyô mo mata kakute ari nan is a movie starring Teiji Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga, and Kanzaburô Nakamura. A young wife looses patience with her career-minded husband and returns to her parents' home while an unpaid mortgage forces the...

Nobi is a movie starring Eiji Funakoshi, Mantarô Ushio, and Yoshihiro Hamaguchi. In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation.

As a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.

A homeless man falls ill near a wealthy family's home, who take him in and find themselves dealing with his visiting friends.

Aru kyôhaku is a movie starring Kô Nishimura, Nobuo Kaneko, and Mari Shiraki. A bank manager is blackmailed into robbing his own bank.

Hawai Middowei daikaikûsen: Taiheiyô no arashi is a movie starring Yôsuke Natsuki, Toshirô Mifune, and Kôji Tsuruta. Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the...

Mikkô zero rain is a movie starring Hiroyuki Nagato, Yûji Odaka, and Mayumi Shimizu. Two reporters of divergent morals investigate a drug ring, delving deeper into the underworld in the process.

Jigoku is a movie starring Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, and Yôichi Numata. A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.

An alienated young man flirts with extremism during a major student protest.

Daibosatsu tôge is a movie starring Raizô Ichikawa, Kôjirô Hongô, and Tamao Nakamura. The story follows the life of Ryunosuke Tsukue, an amoral samurai and a master swordsman with an unorthodox style.

A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart.

Tokyo naito is a movie starring Kôji Wada, Mayumi Shimizu, and Shôichi Ozawa. A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.