Movies

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...

Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in...

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

An Ishiro Honda film.

Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the...

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

A trio of teenage tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get into deep trouble.

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

1962 Japanese movie

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

Former students of the notorious Harenchi Gakuen college open a new school for dissident youths after their former school is ruined by disputes.

Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan, gambling with U.S. servicemen in order to raise funds...

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa...

The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. However, everything gets screwed up when they accidentally steal...

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.

1958 Japanese movie