Shiho Fujimura

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target of a plot by the evil Yagyu Clan to take away his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Masakazu Tamura

A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiro Motoki

The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a memorial ceremony for the late Chigusa lord,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in the middle of a bloody turf war.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for,...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yuki Amami

[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shiho Fujimura

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A story about a woman from Yanaka Village, Tochigi Prefecture, which was abolished by the government due to the Ashio Copper Mine pollution incident...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Ono

TV remake of Ozu's 'Late Spring'

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoka Suzuki

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shinya Tsukamoto

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Just when you think Kyoshiro's life can't get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and murdering, and leaving notes proudly proclaiming...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoto Takenaka

Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kyōko Enami

Kaori is pursuing her career as a journalist for a magazine with great enthusiasm. But as a result of an article she wrote, she is sent to work for a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayumi Ito

The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Benoît Magimel

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Thirteen years afterward, I wonder if those who bombed Hiroshima are looking at me and saying: 'We did it! We were able to kill another person!' They...

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Cast: Rena Tanaka

A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koichi Sato

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Satō

Yoichiro Nozaki, a high-achieving office worker, collapses from an aneurysm. The doctor advises immediate surgery, but the outcome is uncertain. Even...

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Cast: Takao Osawa

A dying pianist composes one final song for his childhood friend.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toru Kazama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

This film is Beat Takeshi's first starring role.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Beat Kiyoshi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shiho Fujimura

In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka...

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Cast: Shiho Fujimura

Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rick Jason

New student Kanji transfers to 6th grade 2 class, where Ayami Mutoi works as the homeroom teacher. Students begin to talk among themselves that they...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Keiko Kitagawa

[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge the death of Lord...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

[Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This film takes place immediately following 'Ninja 4:...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Two sisters, Kyoko and Hisako, run a restaurant in Kyoto. But an incident with the latter's fiancé puts their relationship, and the future of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shiho Fujimura

A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A single mother is being investigated into the death of her ex-husband, which brings to the fore the obscure details of her past.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shiho Fujimura

Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsible for his father’s murder. He then learns...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to keep the wolf from the door. The farmers are...

Genre: War

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Drama depicting the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that occurred on March 11, 2011 from the perspective of a female doctor. Takako Kawashima works as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoka Suzuki

In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the 2004...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Yasuko Matsuyuki

In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s concubine. Decades later, his adoptive...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Tired of everyday life, the 8th Shogun Yoshimune flees Edo Castle and asks Ooka Echizen to become his personal assistant. In a rice shop, Yoshimune...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Crime

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Crime

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo during the Edo period. His exploits have been...

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Cast: Masako Akeboshi

In Sapporo, college student Watanabe Sachi approaches her band leader boyfriend Takumi with the news that she is pregnant. Finding it difficult to...

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Cast: Nao Minamisawa

A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching! Miyoshi Oki was born in Hokkaido and grew up...

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Cast: Taro Marui

A young girl named Ann moves with her mother to her mother's hometown after her parents go through a divorce. There, Ann meets her first love Daigo...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nao Matsushita

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Genre: Action

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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Cast: Hiroshi Inuzuka

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

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Cast: Hiroshi Inuzuka