Kasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family investigate and find out he was trapped by greedy Nagoshi, ...

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Joji Abe, Kin'ya Aikawa, Kiyoshi Nakajo, Rino Katase, Shima Iwashita

A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who ...

Genre: Crime,Drama,Mystery

Actors:Akira Emoto, Kaori Momoi, Kyoko Maya, Shima Iwashita, Takeshi Kaga

Also known as: For My Daughter’s 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for ...

Genre: Drama,Horror,Mystery

Actors:Jinpachi Nezu, Kyôko Kishida, Naoki Sugiura, Shima Iwashita, Shinsuke Ashida

The wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan’s heir suddenly dies and a succession conflict threatens to break out.

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Keiko Unno, Masahiro Kuwana, Masahiro Takashima, Natsuko Fuji, Shima Iwashita

While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her ...

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Akiko Kana, Koujiro Shimizu, Riki Takeuchi, Rino Katase, Shima Iwashita

When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.

Genre: Drama,Thriller

Actors:Gō Katō, Kaneko Iwasaki, Mayumi Ogawa, Shima Iwashita, Yūsuke Takita

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Hiroki Iwase, Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Miyuki Yoshizawa, Shima Iwashita

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha’s Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of ...

Genre: Action,Drama

Actors:Eijirō Tōno, Gō Katō, Kunie Tanaka, Mikijiro Hira, Shima Iwashita

Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the ...

Genre: Action,Adventure

Actors:Chieko Baisho, Isamu Nagato, Kichijirō Ueda, Seiji Miyaguchi, Shima Iwashita

Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Drama

Actors:Matsumoto Hakuō II, Shima Iwashita, Takashi Yamaguchi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba

Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous ...

Genre: Action,Crime,Drama

Actors:Akiko Kana, Masako Natsume, Shima Iwashita, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba

After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Hideyuki Kasahara, Hinano Yoshikawa, Jun Toba, Kyōzō Nagatsuka, Shima Iwashita

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and ...

Genre: Drama,History

Actors:Frankie Sakai, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shima Iwashita, Shiro Sano, Tsurutaro Kataoka

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Shima Iwashita, Taiji Tonoyama, Tomoko Naraoka, Tōru Abe, Yoshio Harada

The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.

Genre: Drama,History

Actors:Jun Hamamura, Masao Kusakari, Rentaro Mikuni, Rie Yokoyama, Shima Iwashita

Follows a young med student’s relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother’s struggle to ...

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Haruko Sugimura, Kenichi Hagiwara, Sayoko Ninomiya, Shima Iwashita, Takeshi Kusaka

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century ...

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Hōsei Komatsu, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kichiemon Nakamura II, Shima Iwashita, Yūsuke Takita

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns ...

Genre: Action,Comedy

Actors:Etsushi Takahashi, Minori Terada, Nobuko Otowa, Shima Iwashita, Toshirō Mifune

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans ...

Genre: Drama,Mystery,Thriller

Actors:Kei Satō, Rentaro Mikuni, Shima Iwashita, Shogen Nitta, Taiji Tonoyama

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Chishū Ryū, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada, Shima Iwashita, Teruo Yoshida

In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant’s daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Hiroyuki Nagato, Seiji Miyaguchi, Shima Iwashita, Teruo Yoshida, Yoshiko Nakamura

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a ...

Genre: Action,Drama,History

Actors:Akira Ishihama, Masao Mishima, Shima Iwashita, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku’s iconoclastic New ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Junichiro Yamashita, Kayoko Honoo, Kazuya Kosaka, Shima Iwashita, Shinichirō Mikami