Based off of the novel, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” and the ballet, “The Nutcracker”, Sanrio shows their take on ...

Genre: Animation,Family,Fantasy

Actors:Atsuko Ichinomiya, Haruko Kitahama, Hisao Dazai, Kaoru Sugita, Kō Nishimura, Shiro Kishibe, Shizue Natsukawa, Takao Yamada, Tarō Shigaki, Yukari Uehara

Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his youth, offers ...

Genre: Action,Drama

Actors:Asao Koike, Daigo Kusano, Etsushi Takahashi, Keizo Kanie, Kō Nishimura, Mako Midori, Mikio Narita

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Eitarō Ozawa, Harue Tone, Kō Nishimura, Kumeko Urabe, Mitsuko Mito, Rentaro Mikuni, Teruko Kishi, Yoshio Inaba, Yūko Mochizuki

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into ...

Genre: Action

Actors:Chitose Maki, Katsuhiko Kobayashi, Kō Nishimura, Kyôko Kishida, Raizō Ichikawa, Reiko Fujiwara, Saburo Date, Shiho Fujimura, Takeshi Katō, Yūnosuke Itō

While attempting to win the affections of a beautiful rival, a master thief risks death to learn the secret intentions of a wealthy and seemingly ...

Genre: Adventure,Animation,Comedy,Crime,Drama

Actors:Eiko Masuyama, Gorō Naya, Hidekatsu Shibata, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Kō Nishimura, Kosei Tomita, Makio Inoue, Shozo Iizuka, Toru Ohira, Yasuo Yamada

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Bunta Sugawara, Chiezō Kataoka, Etsushi Takahashi, Kei Satō, Kō Nishimura, Naoko Ohtani, Shin Saburi, Tatsuo Endō, Toshirō Mifune, Yukari Yamamoto

On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she’s a ghost, he ...

Genre: Horror

Actors:Atsumi Uda, Gen Kimura, Hajime Koshikawa, Kō Nishimura, Kōjirō Hongō, Mayumi Ogawa, Michiko Ōtsuka, Miyoko Akaza, Shinobu Araki, Takashi Shimura

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. ...

Genre: Action,Drama,History

Actors:Daigo Kusano, Hōsei Komatsu, Kazuko Inano, Kei Satō, Keiko Aikawa, Keizo Kanie, Kō Nishimura, Shin Kishida, Toshio Kurosawa

A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.

Genre: Action,Crime,Drama

Actors:Eiji Okada, Hideji Ōtaki, Ken Takakura, Kō Nishimura, Kunie Tanaka, Mitsuko Baisho, Ryō Ikebe, Ryoko Nakano, Taketoshi Naitō, Yoshio Harada

In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji ...

Genre: Action,Comedy,Crime,Drama

Actors:Gorō Ibuki, Hajime Hana, Hiroki Matsukata, Kō Nishimura, Mikio Narita, Sanae Nakahara, Sonny Chiba, Takeo Chii, Tatsuo Endō, Yumiko Nogawa

The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Drama

Actors:Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Kō Nishimura, Kunie Tanaka, Masayuki Mori, Osami Nabe, Reiko Ōhara, Ryūnosuke Kaneda, Shinnosuke Ikehata, Tatsuya Nakadai

Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Drama

Actors:Akira Shimizu, Chōchō Miyako, Kō Nishimura, Machiko Soga, Makoto Satō, Ryoichi Tamagawa, Ryūtarō Gomi, Takuya Fujioka, Yoshiko Mita

Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father’s prostitute as his wife.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Ichirō Amano, Jun Hamamura, Junichiro Yamashita, Kō Nishimura, Saburo Date, San'emon Arashi, Taiji Tonoyama, Tamao Nakamura, Yūsaku Terashima

A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his ...

Genre: Horror

Actors:Harold Conway, Kazuo Katō, Keiko Yumi, Kō Nishimura, Masumi Harukawa, Mitsue Suzuki, Takeshi Katō, Yoko Hayama, Yukiko Kuwahara, Yūko Kusunoki

Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for ...

Genre: Crime,Drama,Thriller

Actors:Jun Hamamura, Kō Nishimura, Kōjirō Kusanagi, Mari Shiraki, Nobuo Kaneko, Norikatsu Hanamura, Reiko Arai, Tomio Aoki, Yōko Kozono, Zenji Yamada

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his ...

Genre: Action,Drama

Actors:Akiji Kobayashi, Akira Yamanouchi, Daigo Kusano, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kō Nishimura, Mari Atsumi, Renji Ishibashi, Yukiji Asaoka, Zenpei Saga

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.

Genre: Action,Adventure,Drama

Actors:Kayo Mikimoto, Kenjirō Ishiyama, Kō Nishimura, Mizuho Suzuki, Rentaro Mikuni, Takuya Fujioka, Tatsuo Endō, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Yūko Hamada

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. ...

Genre: Action,Drama

Actors:Ichirō Nakatani, Kei Satō, Kō Nishimura, Kunie Tanaka, Michiyo Aratama, Tadao Nakamaru, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirō Mifune, Yōko Naitō, Yūzō Kayama

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Bumon Kahara, Fumie Kitahara, Kazuo Kitamura, Kō Nishimura, Masumi Harukawa, Ranko Akagi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Tanie Kitabayashi, Yoshi Katō, Yūko Kusunoki

In this loose adaptation of “Hamlet,” illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and ...

Genre: Crime,Drama,Thriller

Actors:Kamatari Fujiwara, Kō Nishimura, Kyōko Kagawa, Kyū Sazanka, Masayuki Mori, Someshō Matsumoto, Takashi Shimura, Takeshi Katō, Tatsuya Mihashi, Toshirō Mifune

A newspaper reporter’s search for his girlfriend’s missing father lead him into heart of the criminal underworld of Yokohama’s ...

Genre: Action,Crime

Actors:Hiroyuki Nagato, Hisano Yamaoka, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Keisuke Noro, Kō Nishimura, Kōjirō Kusanagi, Shinsuke Ashida, Shoichi Ozawa, Tsutomu Shimomoto, Yūko Kusunoki

A rambunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.

Genre: Comedy,Drama

Actors:Hayao Takamura, Hiroyuki Nagato, Kō Nishimura, Michie Kita, Osamu Takizawa, Ryusei Ito, Shinichi Yanagisawa, Shoichi Ozawa, Shojiro Ogasawara, Yōko Minamida

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Danko Ichikawa, Eijirō Tōno, Keiko Ogasawara, Ken Mitsuda, Kō Nishimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Teiji Takahashi, Yūko Mochizuki, Yūnosuke Itō