Movies

Inside a bustling postwar Tokyo beer hall, a diverse group of patrons, performers, and workers spend a single evening navigating their personal...

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.

Follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and...

A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con artists.

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to avenge his father's death continues. His discovery of...

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yonetaro fell asleep after being kicked by a sick...

Teenagers are rebels without a cause. Let it be for stress relief or just a way to kill time, Mami (Kumiko Akiyoshi) and Chiaki were always up to no...

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

5 criminals organize a jailbreak in search of a cache of stolen diamonds.

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

In this film in the long running series, Tange Sazen and his friends are asked to guard a dragon-shaped incense burner that holds the key to hidden...

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa

The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and...

This unique melodrama depicts the anguish of a new wife whose husband confesses to her his infertility on their wedding night. The virgin wife, who...

Comedy drama film

A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.

The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam construction site in what is now Hanamaki City,...

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.