Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Tani, Jun Ôtomo, Takamaru Sasaki, Seiji Miyaguchi
During World War II, Kaji, a peace-loving man, travels to a small village with his wife, Michiko, to work as a supervisor in an iron mine to avoid being drafted into the army. When the military police send six hundred Chinese prisoners to work in the mine, Kenji talks to their leader to control the Khushan. But his methods upset the corrupt system there and...
Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Masashi Ebara, Damien Thomas, Toshirô Mifune, Yôsuke Natsuki
An English navigator becomes a player and at the same time a plaything of the political games of feudal "Japan"...
Stars: Nobuo Nakamura, Tôru Abe, Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara
An old couple visits their children and grandchildren in the city, and are ignored...
Stars: Sachio Sakai, Noriko Honma, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Yûnosuke Itô, Burt Kwouk
In ancient China, about a thousand years ago, a tyrannical government ruled over the people. 1008 rebellious people decided to change the story and overthrow the oppressive government.
Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Masashi Ebara, Damien Thomas, Toshirô Mifune, Yôsuke Natsuki
An English sailor is taken hostage in Japan and meanwhile enters the deadly political games of feudal Japan...
Stars: Bokuzen Hidari, Tôru Abe, Shirô Ôsaka, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka
Fumiko, a mother of two and wife to a cheating husband with low self-esteem, combines her family life with her career as a poet. The beginning of his successful literary career at the same time as divorce and...
Stars: Paul Frees, Susumu Fujita, Richard Erdman, Jason Robards, Walter Brooke
This movie is about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the mistakes of the Americans that caused this to happen...
Stars: Ichirô Nakatani, Isao Yamagata, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Gô Katô, Yûko Hama
Ogami Ito volunteers to rescue a tortured woman and is hired by their leader to kill an officer...
Stars: Tôru Abe, Ken Ogata, Takahiro Tamura, Kenji Imai, Asao Sano
The film tells the story of Suji Toranoske, a ronini who returns home years after attempting suicide. Being supervised by a swordsman, he has become a professional swordsman and a kind man...
Stars: Mansaku Fuwa, Yoshi Katô, Teruo Matsuyama, Saburô Date, Kaoru Kobayashi
A traveling blind musician is abused while touring the country, even as the modern world claims that people's behavior has changed...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Mikijirô Hira, Noriko Sengoku
On his deathbed, wealthy businessman Beck announces that all his wealth will be divided between his three illegitimate children, whose existence is hidden from his family and colleagues. A group of his colleagues and lawyers are trying to get his money and...
Stars: Yoshio Inaba, Asao Uchida, Manabu Morita, Yutaka Nakamura, Shintarô Katsu
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to join the Japanese army in Manchuria to serve. He meets a former gangster who...
Stars: Yoshio Inaba, Mikijirô Hira, Tôru Abe, Rin'ichi Yamamoto, Chôichirô Kawarasaki
A clan elder named "Shogan" runs programs like a puppet to rule. Shogan is the brother of "Tsadshig", a person who wants to run a program to help the elderly, but there is a big problem and...
Stars: Tokio Oki, Yûji Hamada, Sumao Ishihara, Shintarô Katsu, Tôru Abe
Zatwicki becomes the target of a yakuza group after he defeats them in a wrestling match. Meanwhile, the old love of Zatwicki returns to his life...
Stars: Takamaru Sasaki, Kyôichi Satô, Tadashi Iwata, Yûji Hamada, Goro Kumon
Two sworn Chinese and Japanese great heroes are caught to protect a young child. Can this national mistrust and simple misunderstanding keep the souls of these two families separated from each other?
Stars: Tôru Abe, Takako Irie, Chieko Nakakita, Fumie Kitahara, Fumiko Okamura
This valiant melodrama is the brilliant debut as a moviemaker of the great Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, who also has a small role in the story. Based on a screenplay by Keinosuke ...
Stars: Kôji Sekiyama, Tôru Abe, Tetsurô Tanba, Kunie Tanaka, Kôji Nanbara
Shinichi is a good man who has been sentenced to three years in prison and is nearing the end of his sentence. He escapes from the prison hand in hand with the dangerous goon, who incited him to escape. They start a journey together in the desolate and snowy country of Hokkaido.
Stars: Gô Katô, Tôru Abe, Ryûnosuke Kaneda, Jun Hamamura, Yatsuko Tan'ami
Outside a sparsely populated village in Japan, there is a mysterious lagoon that is home to mythical monsters. Their story is about revenge, tragedy and the power of true love. A classic story that is very delicately included in the film.
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Yoshi Katô, Tôru Abe, Torahiko Hamada, Haruko Chichibu
A young man decides to become a famous warrior and causes trouble for his tribe.
Stars: Tôru Abe, Tetsurô Tanba, Sumiko Fuji, Tatsuo Endô, Akira Shioji
A story set in the late Meiji period - circa 1880s-1890s compared to the early Meiji period which began in the 1860s
