Japanese drama

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan’s greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has ...

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly to ...

A ghost story about a woman who dies a violent death and appears to the man she loves as a vengeful spirit. This film marked the turning point in ...

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally “Hibari’s Lullaby”) is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Koji Shima. The ...

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of “love ’em and leave ’em” as a matter ...

This happened at a post station on the Shinshu road. Takizo Hoshigoe, a wanted man who has been missing since breaking through the Oto ...

A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his ...