Japan Movies

Yûhi ni akai ore no kao is a movie starring Yûsuke Kawazu, Shima Iwashita, and Kayoko Honoo. A young journalist turns to an assassin for help when a team of hired killers comes gunning for her.

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

An expedition to Infant Island discovers a native population and tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity. Named Mothra, she sets out to rescue her fairies after they are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman.

Tsubaki Sanjuro is a movie starring Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, and Keiju Kobayashi. A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt...

A dying businessman intends to will two hundred million yen to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.

In 1980, a giant planetoid named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Even though it is smaller than Earth, its mass is huge enough to crush the Earth and destroy it. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destro

Zatôichi monogatari is a movie starring Shintarô Katsu, Masayo Banri, and Ryûzô Shimada. The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur who also happens to be a master swordsman.

Kuro no tesuto kâ is a movie starring Jirô Tamiya, Junko Kanô, and Eiji Funakoshi. Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Kiru is a movie starring Raizô Ichikawa, Shiho Fujimura, and Mayumi Nagisa. A samurai seeks revenge and redemption after his family is executed by a rival clan.

The advertising director of a pharmaceutical company seeks to boost the ratings of their sponsored TV program by capturing a legendary monster in a marketing scheme when Godzilla re-emerges. (Original Japanese Version)

Namida o shishi no tategami ni is a movie starring Takashi Fujiki, Kôji Nanbara, and Kyôko Kishida. A union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his...

The blind masseur and swordsman, Zatoichi, learns of a powerful political figure's secret and is quickly tailed by a group of killers.

Sanma no aji is a movie starring Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, and Keiji Sada. An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

Shinsengumi shimatsuki is a movie starring Raizô Ichikawa, Shiho Fujimura, and Tomisaburô Wakayama. As change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of respect for their leader and because he wants to live and die as a...

Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo's targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yuk

Police detective Tajima, tasked with tracking down stolen firearms, turns an underworld grudge into a blood-bath. Suzuki transforms a colorful pot-boiler into an on-target send-up of cultural colonialism and post-war greed.

An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home.

Wanpaku ôji no orochi taiji is a movie starring Morio Kazama, Yukiko Okada, and Chiharu Kuri. Prince Susano's mother dies; when his father tells him she has gone to another place, he sets off in search of her. He builds a boat and...

King Kong vs. Godzilla is a movie starring Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara, and Yû Fujiki. A newspaper and television station funded by a pharmaceutical company want a sensation, which happens to be the discovery of King Kong on an...

Eburi manshi no yûga-na seikatsu is a movie starring Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, and Eijirô Tôno. This comedy portrays the everyday life of an ordinary salary-man who uses himself as a model to write a novella.

Nippon konchûki is a movie starring Emiko Aizawa, Setsuko Amamiya, and Tomio Aoki. Life story of a woman born in poverty trying to succeed. Through her many schemes, she faces her ups and downs in a cyclical nature, fueled mostly by...

Zatoichi promises to deliver a maiden safely home but finds two dangerous gangs have a mysterious interest in the young girl.

When we last saw the intrepid ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizo Ichikawa), he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even harder to kill. With the help of the enigmatic Hattori Hanzo, Goemon lives to skul

Akai hankachi is a movie starring Yûjirô Ishihara, Ruriko Asaoka, and Hideaki Nitani. A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years,...

The orphan swordsman wanders into a town and stumbles upon the opportunity to do righteous deeds. He finds a larger plot is afoot with a corrupt court system, a well meaning public servant and lots of danger for all involved.

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.

Getsuyôbi no Yuka is a movie starring Mariko Kaga, Akira Nakao, and Yasukiyo Umeno. 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 important...

Kuroi taiyô is a movie starring Tamio Kawaji, Chico Lourant, and Yuko Chishiro. One is a young, jazz-obsessed Japanese drifter and other is a black American GI on the lam in Tokyo. The two outsiders become outlaws and the movie...

Mosura tai Gojira is a movie starring Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, and Hiroshi Koizumi. Mothra's egg washes ashore and is claimed by greedy entrepreneurs who refuse to return it to her fairies. As Godzilla arises near Nagoya, the...

Nemuri Kyôshirô: Engetsugiri is a movie starring Raizô Ichikawa, Kyôko Azuma, and Ryônosuke Azuma. The shogun's illegitimate son decapitates a peasant which draws in nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro into more sword-fighting adventures when...

Akai satsui is a movie starring Masumi Harukawa, Kô Nishimura, and Shigeru Tsuyuguchi. A housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar.

Uchû daikaijû Dogora is a movie starring Yôsuke Natsuki, Yôko Fujiyama, and Hiroshi Koizumi. An amorphous cellular life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.

Oretachi no chi ga yurusanai is a movie starring Akira Kobayashi, Hideki Takahashi, and Chieko Matsubara. Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza for the death of their father.

Nemuri Kyôshirô: Joyôken is a movie starring Raizô Ichikawa, Michiyo Ai, and Akira Amemiya. This film of the sleepy-eyed ronin series has the quite reluctant hero refuse to come to the assistance of a Japanese Christian in an age of...

Onibaba is a movie starring Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, and Kei Satô. Two women kill samurais and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious...

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a TV movie starring Billie Mae Richards, Burl Ives, and Larry D. Mann. A misfit reindeer and his friends look for a place that will accept them.

A detective is assigned to protect a princess who prophecies the Earth's end with the arrival of a powerful space monster. Mothra and her fairies must persuade Godzilla and Rodan to set aside their differences or face the invader alo

Kaidan is a movie starring Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, and Misako Watanabe. A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.

In part five of the 8-part Shinobi No Mono Ninja film series the heroic ninja Kirigakure Saizo (Raizo Ichikawa, of Sleepy Eyes of Death fame) serves the daimyo Sanada, played by Lone Wolf and Cub star Tomisaburo Wakiyama. They are as

The blind swordsman tries to locate a girl's missing father.

Samurai is a movie starring Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, and Michiyo Aratama. February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the...

This film of the sleepy-eyed ronin series has the red-haired swordsman on his way to the city of Edo when he comes across the scene of a woman in the midst of a knife fight with a man. When he reluctantly and with considered hesitati

During WW2, a platoon of Marines crash-lands on a tiny Pacific island occupied by a small Japanese unit.

In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

Nemuri Kyôshirô: Mashôken is a movie starring Raizô Ichikawa, Michiko Saga, and Machiko Hasegawa. Tsurumatsu, a young boy, is supposed to be a new Lord but he's not really interested, he would rather be a carpenter. So he gets...

The story of Saizo's son, Kirigakure Saisuke, who after seeing his father die at the Battle Of Shimabara, grows up to be an expert ninja.