Movies

A romantic action drama set in early Meiji-era Hokkaido, centered on a passionate, justice-seeking newspaper reporter who takes on an official...

Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.

The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his...

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second feature film directed by Kamei Fumio, who is...

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.

After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he...

The harrowing journey of Kinu Wada, a young woman who is sold into prostitution to pay her family's debts.

When Boss Juzo's Shinmachi Yakuza family struck fear into the hearts of his adversaries, Boss Shohei's Okabe Yakuza family with a merciless gang of...

During the late Meiji period, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu, a...

Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small...

Melodrama about a young woman who saves a young man from the world of evil after he has saved her from blindness.

Tatsuo Torigoe, the president of Torigoe Industries, attempts suicide but survives and reveals his motives for suicide to his only daughter, Akiko.

A 1960 crime film

After some fruitless career hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and...

Masked avenger Kurama Tengu and his young sidekick try to stop a mysterious adversary from assassinating a group of young warriors who want to bring...