
During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses. Read More »
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Samurai Spy (1965) Masahiro Shinoda, Hiroshi Aoyama, Jun Hamamura, Osamu Hitomi, Action, Drama

The legendary samurai Sasuke Sarutobi tracks the spy Nojiri, while a mysterious figure named Sakon leads a band of men on their own quest for the wily Nojiri. Read More »
Like Grains of Sand (1995) Ryosuke Hashiguchi, Yoshinori Okada, Ayumi Hamasaki, Kouji Yamaguchi, Drama, Romance

The movie is built around the very complex relationships between Yoshida, leaving Shimizu for Aihara (or at least he tries to) Read More »
Fire Festival (1985) Mitsuo Yanagimachi, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Kiwako Taichi, Norihei Miki, Drama

The villagers in a beautiful remote area of Japan are divided into the woodsmen, who worship the mountain goddess, and the fishermen, who worship the goddess of the sea. Read More »
The Temple of the Wild Geese (1962) Yûzô Kawashima, Ayako Wakao, Masao Mishima, Isao Kimura, Drama, Romance

Kawashima excelled in portraying latent psychological anxieties and their incursion to associations. Read More »
The Graceful Brute (1962) Yûzô Kawashima, Ayako Wakao, Yûnosuke Itô, Hisano Yamaoka, Comedy, Drama

A greedy, materialistic family tries to cover-up that the embezzlement committed by the child when keeping their other strategies busy. Read More »
Heaven Is Still Far Away (2016) Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Nao Okabe, Anne Ogawa, Hyunri, Short, Drama

Yuzo, a mosaic engineer for porn videos, lives under the same roof as Mitsuki, a high school student with whom he leads a peculiar life. Read More »
Scattered Clouds (1967) Mikio Naruse, Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa, Mitsuko Kusabue, Drama, Romance

A guy falls in love with the widow of a man he killed in a car collision. Finally she falls in love with him . Read More »
Mermaid Legend (1984) Toshiharu Ikeda, Mari Shirato, Kentarô Shimizu, Jun Etô, Crime, Drama, Horror

Following a woman is framed for the murder of her husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge on the corrupt businessmen accountable. Read More »
Fireflies: River of Light (2003) Hiroshi Sugawara, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Risako Sugaya, Kôji Yakusho, Drama

At a class visit to Yamaguchi, Hajime lake, the basic school teacher gets pupils embark in the job to clean out the river and so the fireflies to fly once more. Read More »