Stars: Tamotsu Tamura, Takashi Ebata, Katsuo Nakamura, Masao Imafuku, Hatsuo Yamaya
An exiled ronin is faced with a big decision, help the woman he loves, or join his group to gain glory. When his wife and husband steal his money, his guilt brings him to the brink of destruction and...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Susumu Fujita, Sachio Sakai, Yoshio Tsuchiya
After the detonation of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese army and government are faced with demands from the Allies for unconditional surrender. The Japanese defense minister leads officers who believe that even to the death of all Japanese citizens, they must continue to fight and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Hideyo Amamoto, Yasuzô Ogawa, Rinsaku Ogata
Two ronin, a samurai and a farmer, get caught up in the complex and dangerous game of the local authorities and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Hideyo Amamoto, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Yûnosuke Itô
During World War II, a Japanese soldier joins a "kamikaze" mission against an American ship and...
Stars: Akira Kubo, Donald Richie, Tanie Kitabayashi, Kichiemon Nakamura, Hisashi Igawa
In the late 1500s, a tea master shows the ways of knowing tea to a stubborn shogun. Using strong motivation and great courage, Hideyoshi becomes the most powerful general in Japan. Rikyu helps him by using tea ceremonies and aromatic substances and...
Stars: Tokie Hidari, Tetsu Watanabe, Jun Hamamura, Takahiro Tamura, Masako Yagi
A poetic film about the connection between the birth and death of man and the surrounding nature.
Stars: Eiji Ôki, Kaori Momoi, Hitomi Satô, Jun Murakami, Toshi Shioya
A film that follows three modern Japanese schoolgirls in Tokyo as they flirt with voluptuous old men and assist Yakwa in the lucrative and sometimes dangerous practice of enjo kozai, or "meeting clubs".
Stars: Yûko Tanaka, Masao Imafuku, Eri Ishida, Tatsuo Nadaka, Tarô Shigaki
A retelling of Emily Brontë's story of revenge and obsessive love that takes place in medieval Japan.
Stars: Akira Nagoya, Chieko Baishô, Hideo Murota, Akira Hamada, Tanie Kitabayashi
A person is constantly tested and faced with tragedy, wherever he goes, he is involved in it, a man can finally face the peace and perfection of love or rest with what he has left from his hometown, his family, love or himself.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ichirô Nakatani, Sachio Sakai, Yutaka Sada
Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War IIs Battle of Okinawa - a massive amphibious assault by U.S. troops that left more than 150,000 Japanese civilians dead.
Stars: Yukio Horikita, Tadashi Iwata, Sumao Ishihara, Kanae Kobayashi, Kei Iinuma
A simple expression of Ikki Chi, a freemason thinker whose ideas were defeated in the military coup of 1936.
Stars: Hisako Ôkata, Hitoshi Takagi, Tadanobu Asano, Naoto Takenaka, Akaji Maro
Yukio lives a good life. He is a respected doctor with a successful clinic and a beautiful wife. His only problem is that his wife suffers from amnesia and has an unknown past. But when his parents are murdered by a mysterious stranger with Yukio's face, everything falls apart...
Stars: Kaoru Okunuki, Akira Emoto, Shigeru Muroi, Yasuko Tomita, Kenichi Ishii
The story of the movie begins when a kotatsu comes alive and tries to eat people...
Stars: Yasuzô Ogawa, Daigo Kusano, Matthew Oram, Reiko Tajima, Akihiko Hirata
An alien race is building a robotic Godzilla to destroy Japan, and the real Godzilla may not be strong enough to destroy him...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Sachio Sakai, Hideyo Amamoto, Naoya Kusakawa
During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the senator joined a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate to fight the imperial forces. But the senator's friendship with a pickpocket changes its direction with the wind and...
