Movies

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he...

This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.

1950 Japanese movie

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she...

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating...

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This...

Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu.

A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender. Remake of Hiroshi Inagaki's Jigoku no mushi (1938).

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the...

Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.

A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane...