Susumu Terajima

Minori Terada

Katsuo Nakamura

Saburô Ishikura

Orugoru

Orugoru (1989)

Hatsuo Yamaya

Shinji Amano

Yusuke Minami

Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin against the Shogunate. His faithful servant gathers the 100 ryo required for his acceptance. Gengobe is also in love with a greedy geisha named Koman. About to be sold to another man, Gengobe learns that for him to keep her, her debt is exactly 100 ryo.—Vogels

Demons

Demons (1971)

Yumiko Shaku

Tetsu Watanabe

Masahiro Yokotani

To protect Japan from yet another monster attack, this time from a new and malevolent member of the Godzilla (Gojira) species, the Japanese government creates a human-piloted cyborg, codenamed Kiriyu, using the skeleton of the original Godzilla (Gojira) that attacked Japan in 1954.—John Cassidy

Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla

Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)

Toshirô Mifune

Takashi Shimura

Ken Ogata

Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562. Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?—

Samurai Banners

Samurai Banners (1969)

Jôji Takagi

Shintarô Katsu

Hideji Ôtaki

Star Shintaro Katsu sits in the director's chair for this psychedelic and unremittingly bleak entry in the Zatoichi series, which is unlike any other in its grind-house grimness. A tale of innocence corrupted by sadistic, sleazy criminality, the film is propelled by Easy Rider-esque editing and a trippy seventies funk score by Kunihiko Murai.—Anonymous

Zatoichi in Desperation

Zatoichi in Desperation (1972)

Kôji Yakusho

Isao Natsuyagi

Mitsuko Baishô

An impossible tale. Taro, an old man who dies homeless in Tokyo has told Yosuke, a weak-willed out-of-work salaryman about a golden statue that he left years ago in a house by the sea in Noto. Yosuke goes and he's captivated by Saeko, a young women who lives in the house where Taro left the statue. She has a strange affliction: water builds up in her and she can only vent it by wicked acts, such as shoplifting, or, more powerfully, through orgasm. Yosuke obliges, the water gives him life, as well as the plants and fish it reaches. Saeko feels shame, and she has a past. Taro's ghost urges Yosuke to fulfill his desires, but can the relationship survive?—

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)

Kinnosuke Nakamura

Ryûnosuke Tsukigata

Eitarô Shindô

A lively samurai film dramatizing a pivotal turning point in the life and career of Nobunaga Oda, who figured prominently in efforts to unify the warring states of Japan under a central ruler in the late 16th century.

Fuunji Oda Nobunaga

Fuunji Oda Nobunaga (1959)

Mariko Kaga

Kei Satô

Yumiko Nogawa

After Atsushi commits murder, he is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase full of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret.

The Pleasures of the Flesh

The Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)

Tomokazu Miura

Toshiyuki Nishida

Sayuri Yoshinaga

A woman plots her abusive husband's demise with the help of her lover, who only wants her as a prostitute.

Station to Heaven

Station to Heaven (1984)

Rentarô Mikuni

Tomo'o Nagai

Kinuyo Tanaka

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946.

Ibo kyoudai

Ibo kyoudai (1957)

Keiko Takahashi

Noboru Nakaya

Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him and only him, yet she is constantly being lust by others.

Love Letter

Love Letter (1981)

Tatsuya Nakadai

Keiju Kobayashi

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.

Bakumatsu

Bakumatsu (1970)

Shintarô Morimoto

Tadanobu Asano

Teruyuki Kagawa

A young boy lives in poverty with his grandfather while tending his dream of becoming a painter.

Snow Prince

Snow Prince (2009)

Yûko Takeuchi

Erika Sawajiri

Renji Ishibashi

Kae Horii (Erika Sawajiri) moves into her new flat in an undisclosed area of Kyoto. While unpacking her belongings, she discovers a hidden compartment behind a inconspicuous mirror. In that compartment, Kae finds a notebook, that turns out to be a diary belonging to the previous tenant. Later that evening Kae starts to read the diary. The writer of the diary is Ibuki Mano (Yuko Takeuchi), a young lady about to embark on her first year as an elementary school teacher. Ibuki is also in love with a man named Takashi, who may or may not hold similar feelings for Ibuki. The diary immediately resonates with Kae, as she plans to become an elementary school teacher herself. Ibuki's experiences also works as an inspirational instructional guide for Kae's own personal life. Kae is also in love with an aloof illustrator/artist (Yusuke Iseya), who may or may not hold similar feelings for Kae.—http://asianwiki.com

Closed Note

Closed Note (2007)

Yoshiko Kuga

Akira Ishihama

Mutsuko Sakura

A young man ignores his mother's pleas and becomes drawn to a life of crime.

Taiyô to bara

Taiyô to bara (1956)

Akaji Maro

Yûsaku Matsuda

Michiyo Yasuda

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

Kagero-za

Kagero-za (1981)

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