Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki’s same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream ...

Genre: Fantasy,Horror

Actors:Keisuke Horibe, Kyoko Koizumi, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Umenosuke Nakamura

Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his legal adviser, for his daughters ...

Genre: Horror,Mystery,Thriller

Actors:Keiko Matsuzaka, Kikunosuke Onoe V, Koji Ishizaka, Nanako Matsushima, Sumiko Fuji

A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.

Genre: Horror,Mystery

Actors:Etsushi Toyokawa, Hisako Manda, Kazuya Takahashi, Mai Kitajima, Yuko Asano

Kon Ichikawa’s retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), ...

Genre: Action,Drama

Actors:Ken Takakura, Kiichi Nakai, Koji Ishizaka, Rie Miyazawa, Ruriko Asaoka

Two poor, married farmers have recently lost their only child; after a freak visitation, they pry open an alien cocoon to greet their new daughter.

Genre: Adventure,Drama,Science Fiction

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Kiichi Nakai, Koji Ishizaka, Toshirō Mifune, Yasuko Sawaguchi

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a ...

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Keiko Kishi, Koji Ishizaka, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yoshiko Sakuma, Yuko Kotegawa

Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Jun Izumi, Momoe Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki Ishida, Tomokazu Miura, Yukari Yamamoto

This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Animation

Actors:Jun Fubuki, Kaoru Yumi, Masao Kusakari, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Toshinori Omi

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

Genre: Horror,Mystery

Actors:Kiwako Taichi, Koji Ishizaka, Mitsuko Kusabue, Reiko Ōhara, Yōko Tsukasa

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old ...

Genre: Horror,Mystery

Actors:Akiko Nishina, Keiko Kishi, Koji Ishizaka, Koji Kita, Tomisaburō Wakayama

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, ...

Genre: Horror,Mystery

Actors:Koji Ishizaka, Mieko Takamine, Mitsuko Kusabue, Teruhiko Aoi, Yoko Shimada

Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Eiji Okada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tonpei Hidari, Yoko Shimada

Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include ...

Genre: Documentary

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Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three ronin in feudal Japan who wander from castle to castle, selling their services to whichever lord will ...

Genre: Comedy,Drama

Actors:Fujio Tokita, Ichirō Ogura, Isao Bitō, Kenichi Hagiwara, Reiko Inoue

This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual ...

Genre: Documentary

Actors:Abebe Bikila, Ahmed Issa, Emperor Hirohito of Japan, Joe Frazier, Yoshinori Sakai

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi, Fujiko Yamamoto, Kazuo Hasegawa, Naritoshi Hayashi

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his ...

Genre: Adventure

Actors:Hajime Hana, Masayuki Mori, Ruriko Asaoka, Yūjirō Ishihara

Ushimatsu’s father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Eiji Funakoshi, Jun Hamamura, Raizō Ichikawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Shiho Fujimura

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Fubuki Koshiji, Mitsuko Kusabue, Raizō Ichikawa, Tamao Nakamura

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island ...

Genre: Drama,War

Actors:Eiji Funakoshi, Kyū Sazanka, Mantarō Ushio, Mickey Curtis, Osamu Takizawa

Ichikawa’s 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic ...

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Chikage Awashima, Fujiko Yamamoto, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Ryūji Shinagawa

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment ...

Genre: Drama,War

Actors:Jun Hamamura, Rentaro Mikuni, Shōji Yasui, Shunji Kasuga, Taketoshi Naitō

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Genre: Comedy

Actors:Eiko Miyoshi, Fubuki Koshiji, Kamatari Fujiwara, Keiju Kobayashi, Yūnosuke Itō

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Den Obinata, Hideko Takamine, Hisako Yamane, Ken Uehara, Yūji Hori