Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 16, 1929
Deathday: January 03, 2017
Popularity:
1989-09-22
Overview: Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-22
Popularity:
2005-03-12
Overview: Young assassins Azumi and Nagara continue their mission to prevent a civil war. In their hunt for Masayuki Sanada, who is protected by both an army and a dangerous clan, they meet Ginkaku, a person who shows a remarking resemblance with former friend Nachi.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-12
Popularity:
1965-01-06
Overview: Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-06
Popularity:
1998-10-31
Overview: Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder of the police bureaucracy. Muroi has made a pact with Aoshima that while Aoshima looks after the streets, Muroi would make life easier for the cops on the beat. One day in Bayside, a series of events turns the small station upside down.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-10-31
Popularity:
1994-10-22
Overview: Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-22
Popularity:
1967-05-27
Overview: The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-05-27
Popularity:
1992-09-29
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-29
Popularity:
1970-01-15
Overview: With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate. The boss has hired Yojimbo as his hard-drinking enforcer, but Yojimbo is both a spy for the shogunate, trying to find the gold, and in love with the merchant's unwilling mistress, Umeno. Ichi hires on as the merchant's masseur and buys Umeno's freedom with his employer's own money. This embarrasses Yojimbo who withdraws from a pact with Ichi to stir up trouble between father and son and their gangs. As the two sides fight, Ichi finds the gold and sets up a final set of confrontations.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-15
Popularity:
1960-03-22
Overview: On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of his recently deceased father, boss of the Asahina clan. But their exit proves more difficult than planned when their rival clan steps in to exact revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-22
Popularity:
1994-01-14
Overview: Matsushita decides to make a new journey by meeting a fateful woman, Askako, while being chased by a hitman and the police. What awaits him at the end?
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-14
Popularity:
1992-07-10
Overview: An investigation into the obsession of a former detective the loser of life!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-07-10
Popularity:
1968-06-22
Overview: A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-22
Popularity:
1982-01-16
Overview: A doctor who died at a young age due to the metastasis of a malignant tumor to the lungs after cutting his right leg below the knee due to osteosarcoma. The title "Asuka" is the name of the eldest daughter, and "Unseen child" is the child whose wife was pregnant at the time of her death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-01-16
Popularity:
1983-07-23
Overview: Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-23
Popularity:
1961-08-06
Overview: Nitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs but also helps one of the more decent hoodlums find the killer of the hood's brother.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-06
Popularity:
2003-10-26
Overview:
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-10-26
Popularity:
1979-10-06
Overview: A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-10-06
Popularity:
1959-06-23
Overview: A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-23
Popularity:
1971-09-11
Overview: The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers to), the head-quarters of a group of smugglers, with stolen money intended to ransom his loved one who is forced to work in a brothel.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-11
Popularity:
1991-02-09
Overview: Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-02-09
Popularity:
2012-09-03
Overview: As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage Beyond.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-03
Popularity:
1969-10-10
Overview: Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-10
Popularity:
1983-07-12
Overview: Lord Tokugawa Tsunatoyo, bound for Edo to be sworn in as the next shogun, is the target of merciless ninja assassins hired by corrupt officials hoping to put their own candidate in his place. His only hope is the “Oniwaban,” the shogunate’s secret ninja force, sworn to throw their lives down recklessly to prevent this coup. But will they stand a chance of getting the lord to his ceremony in time? A perilous chase, betrayal after betrayal, and a final bloodbath await them as ninja battle ninja in one last, desperate struggle.
Genres: Action History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-12
Popularity:
1971-01-09
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-09
Popularity:
1995-07-11
Overview: A vicious plot that would change the course of Japanese history is set in motion when assassins conspire to kill Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty. Things heats up as Iemitsu plans a journey across Japan where assassins lie in wait. Working with elder statesman Okubo Hikozaemon is Musashi Miyamoto who wants to unravel the mystery of who is behind this plot and things heat up further when some of them are the greatest swordsmen in the land!
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-07-11
Popularity:
1977-06-04
Overview: Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-06-04
Popularity:
1981-05-29
Overview: Toru Emori leads the cast as Hirate Musashi while a Hiroshi Fujioka competes with him as Okamoto Musashi. They must not only contend with the Yoshioka and Yagyu fencing schools, but have to take on Chiyonosuke Azuma as Sasaki Kojiro, and deal with the women who pursue them for love. Unlike the Yoshikawa Eiji novel which is not historically accurate, this film offers a new view of Japan’s greatest hero! The film is based on the novel by Kosuke Gomi!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-05-29
Popularity:
2009-10-23
Overview: Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for National Air Line. He is ordered to return to head office after ten years, and continues to struggle. When a National Air Line plane is involved in the worst air disaster in Japanese history, he is assigned to console and provide restitution to the families of the victims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-10-23
Popularity:
1962-05-27
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-27
Popularity:
1973-06-09
Overview: Based on the comic Gokiburi Deka.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-09
Popularity:
1970-04-04
Overview: A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-04
Popularity:
1970-09-11
Overview:
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-09-11
Popularity:
1993-11-20
Overview:
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-11-20
Popularity:
1962-07-01
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-01
Popularity:
1983-04-09
Overview: Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released, superimposed cast, a group image of real politicians centered on Shigeru Yoshida and political history after the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-09
Popularity:
1968-06-08
Overview: It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a suspect to death during the Pacific War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-08
Popularity:
1982-02-06
Overview: Sequel to "Nomugi Pass"
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-02-06
Popularity:
1985-10-10
Overview: Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he is affected by Alzheimer's disease, but his affliction serves to deepen family ties. Japan's submission to the 58th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-10-10
Popularity:
2003-07-19
Overview: The movie takes place again in the fictional Wangan Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department the once empty space within Wangan's jurisdiction has become a popular tourist attraction. When a string of murders of company execs begins taking place, Aoshima jumps at the opportunity to pursue something other than his current case, which he finds less than inspiring. However the powers that be have other ideas, and Wangan again plays host to a special investigation team from headquarters. Aoshima's friend Superintendent Shinji Muroi, assigned by headquarters to assist Okita, is again powerless to help the local officers as decisions are made by the higher ups.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-19
Popularity:
1965-10-09
Overview: Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the well-established Rokujo family from the beginning. With the support of Jiro, a young man Ine's late husband had saved from homelessness as a young boy, Ine tries to keep the family's heritage of silk processing alive. Their close relationship soon causes gossip among the villagers and threaten Ine's position in the family even further ...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-09
Popularity:
1953-11-23
Overview: A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself in.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-11-23
Popularity:
1983-06-24
Overview: The federal lord of Kofu, Tunatoyo (Tsutomu Isobe), was elected to be the next General. On his way on a trip to Edo for the ceremony, his scapegoat was shot. Oometsuke ordered an Oniwaban, Shinnosuke Takusyoku (Mikijiro Hira) to take Tsunatoyo to Edo safely. However, the enemy turned out to be his younger brother and the federal lord of Tatebayashi Kiyotake (Yoshihiro Kobayashi). On top of that, the Oniwaban sent by Kiyotake to assassinate Tsunatoyo was Shinsuke's father-in-law, Genshin Uno (Shigeru Kamiyuama).
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-06-24
Popularity:
1959-07-28
Overview:
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-28
Popularity:
1982-10-09
Overview: Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for revenge. All intertwined with the investigation of journalists into local murders, the manipulations of a palmist known as the “blue moth”, and political corruption.
Genres: Mystery Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-09
Popularity:
2000-05-13
Overview: A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-05-13
Popularity:
1986-10-17
Overview: Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American air crew.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-10-17
Popularity:
1992-05-30
Overview: Yasuo Furuhata directs this romantic yakuza flick based on a book by popular romance novelist Tomiko Miyao. Set in 1932, the film centers on Peony (Yoko Minamino), a geisha who was forced into the business at a young age by her dissipated father.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-05-30
Popularity:
1990-06-09
Overview: Based on the non-fiction books by Takushi Ono (the NHK announcer, not the gymnast) and Yoshinari Tobe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-06-09
Popularity:
1986-07-26
Overview: In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under the watchful eye of the zookeeper Shota Tanabe. Around the same time, Shota's wife, Setsuko, also gave birth to a son. Hanako, the baby elephant, grows up while deepening her bonds with elementary school students who love zoos. However, as Japan enters the Pacific War, the military orders the animals in the zoos of five major cities to be killed.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-26
Popularity:
1985-01-26
Overview: Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but satisfying job and a girlfriend. Then his mother, unable to fight her forbidden desires, shows up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-26
Popularity:
2005-05-06
Overview: Miyo Hanayama works as a home care nurse, supporting the home care of patients who are close to death. Shigeaki Noguchi complains that his wife has stopped talking to him since he collapsed once. Noriko Imaizumi refuses to undergo surgery because her business has taken off and continues to recuperate at home. And 18-year-old Emi Akizuki insists on visiting the town where she used to live. Everyone is trying their best to live their lives while keeping an eye on their imminent death, which may come at any moment. Meanwhile, Yuki, a nurse like Miyo, discovers she is pregnant.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-05-06
Popularity:
1962-09-30
Overview: A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand boy for a shipping company and vents his frustrations by plucking on the guitar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
Popularity:
1991-03-29
Overview: When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in order to obtain a huge sum of money to enable his many subordinates scattered all over the country to live out the rest of their lives. First, he targets Matsuya, a medicine wholesaler in Nagoya and seduces the master of the shop by using his female subordinate, Nanakake. He then calls upon Sanji, a skilled locksmith to Nagoya, but the bandit Yagura no Fukuemon who is plotting to intercept the thief plots to extract Sanji for a large sum of money. Furthermore, Abe Shikibu, the chief of the firebrand bandit reformatory who is obsessed with Nizaemon's arrest, sends his men to Nagoya.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-03-29
Popularity:
1992-12-23
Overview: In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or is he, too a corrupt villain looking to gain wealth from the oppressed people? From the pen of famed samurai author Yamamoto Shugoro, this exciting tale turns the tables on the standard samurai story with a unique lead character previously portrayed in Ichikawa Kon’s “Dora Heita.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-23
Popularity:
1975-05-31
Overview: Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especially fans of Nakadai will appreciate how the actor comically rants about here. His home life is almost disastrous, with a ditzy (but attractive) wife, three young children, a loud school nearby that’s controlled by a corrupt businessman he loathes, and frequent visits from layabout friends. And the grey-furred, green-eyed cat!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-05-31
Popularity:
1978-03-31
Overview: Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year-old daughter, with the aid of an Ainu dog summoned by a whistle she gave him.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-03-31
Popularity:
1978-11-23
Overview: UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-11-23
Popularity:
2000-10-14
Overview: "Home Sweet Home" deals with a family who, unable to cope with their aging grandfather's worsening dementia, abandon him at a group home for the elderly. When, racked by guilt, they return to retrieve him, they discover to their surprise. . .
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-14
Popularity:
1987-01-01
Overview: Rising from the lowliest of country samurai to the heights of power as Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is one of the pivotal figures of the Sengoku period.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-01-01
Popularity:
1970-02-14
Overview: The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-14
Popularity:
1978-09-23
Overview: A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-23
Popularity:
1975-09-06
Overview: When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-09-06
Popularity:
1963-01-13
Overview: After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-13
Popularity:
1995-11-18
Overview: A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-11-18
Popularity:
1978-09-23
Overview: Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-23
Popularity:
1991-01-15
Overview: A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-15
Popularity:
1974-11-02
Overview: Personal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-11-02
Popularity:
1995-10-07
Overview: In the 14th year of the Genroku period, Asano, the head carpenter of Edo Castle, attacked Kira, the master of ceremonies, with a sword, leading to Asano's forced suicide and Kira's punishment being overlooked. Over a year later in Edo city, Shimohashi Hyogo, a carefree ronin and the nephew of Yagyu Yoshitaka, is ordered by his uncle to investigate the activities of the Ako Ronin, a group sympathetic to Asano's cause. However, Hyogo, who sympathizes with the Ronin's plight, helps out in times of need, rescuing Oishi Kuranosuke and Horibe Yahei from danger. He also teams up with Yaenosuke, a newspaper publisher, and Otaki, a geisha, to plan an attack on Kira's estate.
Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-10-07
Popularity:
1987-05-14
Overview: Shinza is known for his stubborn personality and continues to hold a low-ranking position as a magistrate, despite his colleague Kato becoming the deputy chief retainer. His daughter has feelings for Hachiro, one of her father's subordinates, but she is afraid to express her emotions because of Shinza's intimidating presence. One day, Shinza gets involved in a violent incident within the castle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-05-14
Popularity:
1961-02-19
Overview: A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-19
Popularity:
1978-02-11
Overview: To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating back several generations must be sorted out once and for all.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-02-11
Popularity:
1993-08-21
Overview: A dying pianist composes one final song for his childhood friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-08-21
Popularity:
1994-10-29
Overview: In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-29
Popularity:
2003-03-29
Overview: After his father figure - a yakuza boss, is murdered, Azusa Moribe goes on a killing spree to exact revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-29
Popularity:
1974-04-06
Overview: Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a puppet theatre club, meets Michiko, who works at a printing factory, and they come to learn the bitterness and sadness of love. The two live humbly by the River Kanda, but are viewed coldly by people around them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-04-06
Popularity:
1988-08-06
Overview: A young woman, Asami, searches for the man who helps her quest to enter medical school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-08-06
Popularity:
1990-01-01
Overview: This remake of the classic film features the addition of Chiba Shinichi and Natsuyagi Isao as political intrigue reigns supreme. Tadanaga, the younger son of Shogun Hidetada has signed a dangerous pact with the intention of preventing his older brother Iemitsu from taking his rightful place as heir to the shogun's seat. During the early years of the Tokugawa shogunate highly skilled ninja groups carried out secret missions, and it falls upon Iga Jigoza's force of 17 ninja to infiltrate the enemy's stronghold and steal the pact from Negoro leader Saiga Magokuro.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-01-01
Popularity:
1965-10-30
Overview: Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-30
Popularity:
1990-10-20
Overview: The unexpected death of Fujishima Motoharu, president of a medium-sized firm, triggers a fierce battle over his estate inheritance among family members.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-20
Popularity:
1964-11-01
Overview: An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The situation snowballs out of control, leading to a deadly duel and political fallout which threatens the entire clan. Declared mentally unstable by the corrupt authority, Shinpachi begins his descent into true insanity…
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-01
Popularity:
1977-12-17
Overview: Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-17
Popularity:
1975-11-06
Overview: Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-11-06
Popularity:
1975-02-15
Overview: A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-02-15
Popularity:
1998-11-14
Overview: Kounosuke Mibu and Tae Horikawa are unable to forget each other, even though they met and fell in love 20 years ago. They had promised each other that they would build a retreat in Shiguretei, but Ushio was hospitalized after a stroke a few days later, and when his wife, Takako, rushed to the hospital, she discovered their love affair, which in reality had not gone beyond kissing. Now, 20 years later, against the advice of her ikebana mentor, Tae rushes to meet Ushio at Shiguretei, only to see him clutching his chest in pain. Eventually, the design and plans for the dream retreat are seen by Tae, but she has to visit Kyoto alone... or maybe she's heading for somewhere else.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-11-14
Popularity:
1968-03-27
Overview: Ex-jazz pianist turned promoter finds he is successful, but empty. When an entrepreneur sends him to Moscow with a jazz combo, he falls in with the dissident youth of the city, and again finds life empty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-27
Popularity:
2004-09-20
Overview: Shippuu (Hayate) appeared suddenly dead. However, he fell into the hands of Sarutobi for due to his loss of memory.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-20
Popularity:
1991-01-03
Overview: During the age of warring clans (Sengoku Jidai), many samurai lords sought to unite the country under their banners by becoming the supreme leader. One of the first to vie for power in this way was Saito Dosan, the 'Viper'. His son-in-law, Oda Nobunaga, did in fact unite the nation after subduing all of his enemies, yet falling at last to the treachery of one of his most trusted generals. This story is a pre-cursor to those later events as the brilliant military strategist Saito Dosan rises to power and notoriety as a great lord in his own right. Directed by Kudo Eiichi and with a tremendous supporting cast that includes Nakamura Toru as Oda Nobunaga and Chiba Shinichi as Akechi Mitsutsugu, battle scenes of awesome power and a unique view of Japanese history, this is a marvelous production highlighted by the action scenes done by the Japan Action Club (JAC).
Genres: History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-03
Popularity:
2008-12-20
Overview:
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-20
Popularity:
2005-01-11
Overview: Master swordsman Akiyama Kohei’s simple life in retirement is jarred into violent sword action when he meets an elderly fencing instructor who may be the target of a group of thieves planning a major armed robbery. At the same time dojo master Daijiro saves the life of man who, although skilled in archery has an aversion to killing and a woman artist comes into town where she is in danger of being raped by one of the thieves. From the pen of noted author Ikenami Shotaro, creator of such classics as Bandit Ve. Samurai, Hunter In The Dark, The Last Samurai, and Hissatsu-The Professional Killers! Brilliant storytelling that leads to superb swordsmanship!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-11
Popularity:
1964-10-21
Overview: During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending to her, and she has a secret in her past - one that results in her sleeping with a great number of men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-21
Popularity:
1974-12-07
Overview: Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-12-07
Popularity:
1979-11-03
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-11-03
Popularity:
1983-04-23
Overview: A death occurs during a mountain-climbing expedition.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-23
Popularity:
1969-11-15
Overview: Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a leader in the Mito Tengu group, which plans to overthrow the shogunate.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Romance History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-15
Popularity:
2003-04-21
Overview: A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-21
Popularity:
1969-10-04
Overview: Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi Tokugawa with his twin, but it becomes a problem when suspicion arises and Nemuri Kyoshiro gets involved.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-04
Popularity:
2008-10-19
Overview: Follows the life of an Office Lady who gets through her tedious work days by dreaming of a legendary soup and soup chef she's heard of. She decides to go in search of it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-19
Popularity:
1987-10-10
Overview: Yuki, the wife of a leading member of the Domoto family, must assume her husband’s role as a yakuza boss while he serves out a prison sentence. As she grows into her new role, she manages to assert control and increase the influence of her organization. But when her husband is released from prison, she finds him a changed man, lacking the character necessary to be a powerful yakuza leader. Conflict ensues and their marriage is challenged by a desire for power.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-10-10
Popularity:
1980-08-02
Overview: Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-02
Popularity:
1962-01-23
Overview: A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-23
Popularity:
1982-09-15
Overview: A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their situation becomes increasingly desperate as events spin out of control, culminating in an audacious hijack at sea...
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-09-15
Popularity:
1983-12-27
Overview: After Emiko, a bookstore owner, is driven to suicide by loan sharks, her orphaned son Eisuke decides to take his revenge on them. As Eisuke has no relatives, he is taken in by Keiko, who keeps an eye out for him due to his unusual behavior. One day, Eisuke breaks into the loan company with an improvised gun. In the moment, Keiko ends up becoming Eisuke's accomplice and helps him succeed in the robbery. However, the two are surprised when they hear something on the TV news that differs from the truth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-27
Popularity:
1961-12-10
Overview: A yakuza frames another yakuza who goes to jail for 5 years. When he is released he goes to seek revenge only to fall in love with the daughter of the man who framed him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-10
Popularity:
1981-08-08
Overview: A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-08
Popularity:
1964-04-29
Overview: On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest and most difficult man on the island. Despite their differences in class, they begin to meet and rumors spread of them having an illicit affair. Soon after, Shinji jumps into a stormy sea to help a ship in distress. The vessel turns out to be owned by Hatsue's arrogant father, who now becomes an understanding and sympathetic parent and allows the two lovers to marry.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-29
Popularity:
1991-03-15
Overview: The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater, his granddaughter or grandson.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-03-15
Popularity:
1962-06-15
Overview: Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-15
Popularity:
1986-05-24
Overview: A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-05-24
Popularity:
1984-08-11
Overview: Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don't qualify for the pilot training and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-08-11
Popularity:
1971-08-14
Overview: The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the defenders to build an airstrip for aircraft that never come. The truth soon becomes obvious: the high command decides that the island cannot be held and effectively abandons the Okinawan defenders. When the Americans land many troops are deployed in the wrong places. As the slaughter mounts, a suicidal attitude takes hold. Okinawa becomes a death trap, for civilian volunteers and non-combatants as well.
Genres: War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-08-14
Popularity:
1993-01-30
Overview: Recently released from prison for a murder sentence, a yakuza boss's wife leaves Hong Kong for a fresh start, but a betrayal leads to her return.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-01-30
Popularity:
1974-01-01
Overview: An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to fantasize about her as the personification of his impending death. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he actually meets the living woman who is the template for his fantasy, and together they tour rural churches. Gradually he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series of challenges which profoundly test the lessons he has learned.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-01-01
Popularity:
1981-11-07
Overview: The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quizzical reporter follows the case for years, but the basic question remains unanswered: was the victim killed by members of the burgeoning Communist movement in Japan, or was the death stage-managed by the authorities in hopes of discrediting the Communists?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-11-07
Popularity:
1976-08-14
Overview:
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-08-14
Popularity:
1959-12-27
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-27
Popularity:
2002-03-23
Overview: Ohara Koji is no ordinary Rookie. He is the Hanshin Tigers' secret weapon. Who would have thought that after two major shoulder injuries, 32-year-old Ohara could become a national sensation?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-03-23
Popularity:
1986-09-20
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-09-20
Popularity:
1963-06-08
Overview: A talent scout who had his eyes set on a star left-handed pitcher in the high school baseball world falls to his death at his hotel. Was it a homicide or suicide? His junior colleague pursues the mystery of his death.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-08
Popularity:
1989-01-14
Overview: Visualization based on Tetsuro Tamba's best-selling "Great Reikai". A story about a physicist who dies in an accident and experiences the afterlife as a spirit. The leading role is Tamba Tetsuro's biological son, Tamba Yoshitaka.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-01-14
Popularity:
1967-08-03
Overview: Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-08-03
Popularity:
1961-01-27
Overview: Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-27
Popularity:
1963-11-02
Overview: The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Entente against the German Empire.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-02
Popularity:
1970-02-28
Overview: The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese archipelago, but the task will not be easy.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-28
Popularity:
1965-02-14
Overview: A love story about a former noblewoman who greedily enjoys love after breaking up with her unhappy marriage after the war, in pursuit of a wild and pure Japanese man. Three gorgeous 39-year-old single women who are in the same situation get excited about each other’s love affairs. Adapted from Yukio Mishima's novel, with the same title. It's also related to the movie "L'École de la Chair" from 1998, which also is an adaptation of the book and Japanese movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-14
Popularity:
1985-07-08
Overview: The mysterious behavior and psychology of a woman who gave birth to and abandoned her lover's children twice and went on a honeymoon with another man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-07-08
Popularity:
1991-05-11
Overview:
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-11
Popularity:
1990-09-05
Overview: A housewife who wins a large fortune in the stock market becomes obsessed with financial strategies and eventually develops an affair.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-09-05
Popularity: