The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...

Pale Flower

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the...

Tora-san's Dream of Spring

Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan...

A Distant Cry from Spring

The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the...

The Castle of Sand

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in...

Tora-san's Lullaby

After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved...

Tora-san's Cherished Mother

Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.

Stakeout

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they...

Fountainhead

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Tora-san, His Tender Love

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.

The Greatest Challenge of All

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many...

Miyamoto Musashi

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving...

Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account,...

Watch Out, Crimson Bat!

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was...

August without Emperor

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese...

Rebellion of Japan

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist...

A Trap

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman...

悪魔の顔

The Body

The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job...

Tora-san's Tropical Fever

When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by...

One Way Ticket to Love

The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman...

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in...

By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him

Also known as "History of a Man’s Face" and "By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him" . Immigrant...

Stray Dog

When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is...

Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive

Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with...

Marriage of the sky and the sea

A love comedy directed by Osamu Takahashi based on an original screenplay by Kei Tasaki.

The Big Ambition

Kyukei no Koya

A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko...

Youth of the Son

The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they...

Farewell, My Beloved

During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko...

Visitor After Dark

Suspense film about a beautiful photographer who becomes involved in a murder case.

Confronting Fear

Former boxer Goro Kawasaki was attacked by the organizer of the fights for knocking out his...