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The Lower Depths (1957) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Drama
In medieval Japan, aging Rokubei, his younger wife of four years Osugi and her uncle run a tenement complex at the bottom of a cliff Read More »
Rhapsody in August (1991) Akira Kurosawa, Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa, Drama
An elderly woman living in Nagasaki Japan takes care of her four grandchildren for their summer vacation. Read More »
Phantom of the Toilet (1995) Joji Matsuoka, Takayuki Inoue, Ai Maeda, Yuka Kono, Horror
After school children start to go missing and turn up dead, the students of the local elementary school come up with their own explanation. Read More »
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (1976) Mitsuo Yanagimachi, Documentary
The 1970s in Japan saw the rise of motorcycle gangs, which drew the interest of the media. Read More »
Ogin sama / Love Under the Crucifix (1962) Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ganjirô Nakamura, Drama
The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Read More »
Tsuki wa noborinu / The Moon Has Risen (1955) Kinuyo Tanaka, Chishû Ryû, Hisako Yamane, Yôko Sugi, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. Read More »
Seisakus Wife (1965) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Takahiro Tamura, Nobuo Chiba, Drama, Romance, War
Japan at the beginning of the 20th century. Okane, a beautiful girl from a poor family, must serve as a mistress to a much older rich man. Read More »
Manji / Swastika (1964) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Kyôko Kishida, Eiji Funakoshi, Drama, Romance
Sonoko, a bored housewife entering middle age, met a young girl, Mitsuko, at a private school of art. Read More »
Kitamura Toukoku: Waga fuyu no uta / Tokoku Kitamura. My Winter Song (1977) Seiichiro Yamaguchi, Ranbô Minami, Mari Tanaka, Renji Ishibashi, Mariko Fuji, Drama, Romance
Tokoku Kitamura (1868-1894) is a Romantic poet and an advocate of liberalism in the Meiji era. Read More »
Down the Drain (1993) Shinobu Yaguchi, Noboru Iguchi, Shigeru Izumiya, Kotaro, Comedy
The protagonist, Junko, endures a long series of remarkable misfortunes that leave her at loose ends, steering the films toward the topic of modern experiences of displacement and spiritual homelessness. Read More »
At Noon (1978) Kôichi Gotô, Kenichi Kaneda, Kôji Tamura, Shinobu Yûki, Crime, Drama
Tadao returns from Tokyo to live in his home town. Living with his parents, he gets a job fixing radios and TV sets. Read More »
The Drifting Avenger (1968) Jun’ya Satô, Ken Takakura, Ken Goodlet, Judith Roberts, Drama, Western
Ken, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from Japan. Read More »
Mandara (1971) Akio Jissôji, Shin Kishida, Kôji Shimizu, Hiroko Sakurai, Drama
Two student couples stumble upon a cult dedicated to promoting the primordial human state through rape and agriculture. Read More »
Koshoku ichidai otoko / A Lustful Man (1961) Yasuzô Masumura, Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Tamao Nakamura, Comedy, Drama
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. Read More »