When Wabisuke’s father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds ...

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo’s red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

In this companion piece and sequel to “Yojimbo,” jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their ...

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

In Osaka’s slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man ...

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle ...

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed ...

An Ishiro Honda film.

1955 Japanese movie

When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman ...

The daughter of a former Miss Universe winner finds success as a fashion model in Tokyo following the death of her fiancé.

A samurai answers a village’s request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai ...

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

Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision ...

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband’s co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and ...

An Ishiro Honda film.

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is ...

As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, began to spread, he was summoned by ...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to ...

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, ...

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On ...

The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.