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

When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a ...

Genre: Fantasy,Romance

Actors:Gō Katō, Kōji Nanbara, Tamasaburō Bandō V, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yatsuko Tan'ami

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

A documentary about the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan.

Genre: Documentary

Actors:Kyôko Kishida

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

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

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager–and then wrote a bestselling novel about it–reappears in her life, ...

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Kaoru Yachigusa, Kei Yamamoto, Mariko Kaga, Misako Watanabe, Sō Yamamura

A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Kōji Nanbara, Kyôko Kishida, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki, Tamotsu Hayakawa

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking ...

Genre: Crime,Romance

Actors:Mariko Kaga, Naoki Sugiura, Ryō Ikebe, Shinichirō Mikami, Takashi Fujiki

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Masayuki Mori, Miyuki Kuwano, Reiko Hitomi, Yumeji Tsukioka, Yūsuke Kawazu

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Chieko Baisho, Eijirō Tōno, Isao Kimura, Noriko Maki, Shinichirō Mikami

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