Movies

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

Wataru's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares her love for a coworker and is adamant to live her own...

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer....

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

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the...

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is abroad in Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him...

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.

1956 Drama by Toshio Sugie

1961 Japanese movie

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an...

A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks...

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.

A private detective chases a female pickpocket into a film studio and dashes through the sets. With special appearances by a star-studded cast.