Action

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition--a fight to the death--will...

Drama, History, War

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use...

Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Science-Fiction

Japan sinks! Proving once again that Japan will never cease to find inventive ways to destroy itself on screen, this summer's blockbuster Sinking of Japan brings apocalypse through tectonics....

Drama, War

The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.

Crime, Drama

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

War, Drama, History

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety...

Drama, Romance

A newly unemployed salaryman meets a particularly sexual woman.

Fantasy, Animation, Family, Adventure

Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a young boy who has to make a voyage to...

Drama

After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.

Drama, Action

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

Drama

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.

Drama, Romance, War

Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it was home to over 200 geisha, however...

Drama

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ee ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects...

Drama

Director/screenwriter 'Shinobu Hashimoto' was given carte blanche to make this film based on his three-decade record of success, including being a screenwriter for Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon...

Drama

After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with...

Drama

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.