Mitsuko Tanaka

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an...

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also know in English as “Black Parking Lot”.

In the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to break all ties with their previous lives and form the...

Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor...

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.

Order of Yakuza

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

Shocking scenes are revealed in the Nagasaki Women's prison.

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...

A woman joins a convent to investigate the suspicious death of her brother but nothing could prepare her for the horror and depravity that takes...

Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.

Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have...

A talented man and a dull-witted one plan a big crime.

"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems...

Early pinku.

A sweet and melancholy story that depicts, with beautiful sentimentality, the day when a dreamy and lovely young girl first discovers love in the...

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to a provincial town to lie...

Horror film directed by Koji Shima.

Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.

One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatamoto samurai, to collect some money. But Fukami is...

Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies.

Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man...

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as...

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who...