Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor Read More »
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Ryôjû / Hunting Rifle (1961) Heinosuke Gosho, Yoshie Minami, Mariko Okada, Nobuko Otowa
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband’s child. Read More »
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida
Set in the last few years of the shogun’s rule, this period/ensemble movie depicts the lives of the young and the restless at a whorehouse. Read More »
Onna no sono / The Garden of Women (1954) Keisuke Kinoshita, Mieko Takamine, Hideko Takamine, Keiko Kishi
A student at a woman’s university takes a controversial action against the school’s old-fashioned doctrines. Read More »
The Blue Pearl (1951) Ishirô Honda, Yuriko Hamada, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Ryô Ikebe
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama Read More »
Safari 5000 (1969) Koreyoshi Kurahara, Yûjirô Ishihara, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirô Mifune
Basically, it’s about a Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) Read More »
Rise and Fall of Yakuza (1970) Yasuo Furuhata, Kôji Tsuruta, Kyôsuke Machida, Makoto Satô
A reformed gangster helps a former yakuza member. Read More »
The Woman Who Touched the Legs (1960) Yasuzô Masumura, Machiko Kyô, Hajime Hana, Eiji Funakoshi
A pretty pickpocket is travelling on an express train from Osaka to her home village. Read More »
Shinrei (1996) Junji Inagawa, Masayuki Miyake, Rumi, Mizuki Sano
Junji Inagawa, a guide to the spirit world, has collected and filmed his own spiritual Read More »
The Falcon Fighters / Rikugun hayabusa sentotai (1969) Mitsuo Murayama, Makoto Satô, Shiho Fujimura, Sei Hiraizumi
In the days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Kato Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps Read More »