Director

YAMADA Yoji

Cast

ATSUMI Kiyoshi, BAISHO Chieko, YACHIGUSA Kaoru

There is time even for Tora, a happy-go-lucky rover, a drummer by trade, to feel melancholy. Conversing with a lady in a rural community, he begins to feel homesick and wants to return to his uncle, aunt and sister, gentle people who live in his home...

Release Date

Dec, 29th, 1972

Director

NIHONMATSU Kazui

Cast

KAWAZU Yusuke, SHINDO Emi, SONOI Keisuke

A plane carrying a hydrogen bomb over Japan is attacked by a swarm of insects and crashes on a small island. Two of the survivors are horribly mutilated and the one still living has lost his memory. Nearby a young insect-specialist, George (Yusuke K...

Release Date

Nov, 9th, 1968

Director

YAMAMOTO Satsuo

Cast

WAKAO Ayako, FUNAKOSHI Eiji, YASUDA Michiyo

Based upon the best seller by Ayako Miura, this is about a couple whose only child is killed. The husband, as a means of macabre revenge on the wife, adopts the child of the murderer and they bring her up as their own. There comes a day, however, whe...

Release Date

Mar, 26th, 1966

Director

KIMURA Keigo

Cast

NAKAMURA Tamao, KITABAYASHI Tanie, SAKURA Mutsuko

A Girl Named Kinue Kinue works at the lsogaki Massage Service Center at a hot-spring resort not far from Tokyo where, with a number of other girls she goes to the various hotels to massage their guests. Kinue's secret is her love for her employer's...

Release Date

Apr, 16th, 1961

Director

IMAMURA Shohei

Cast

MIKUNI Rentaro, KAWARAZAKI Choichiro

A culmination of his Nikkatsu days, released in 1968 by master director Imamura Shohei. A huge storm and tsunami hit Kurage Island, an isolated island in the South Sea where awe and faith in the gods are deeply rooted. When the storm passes, a huge ...

Release Date

Nov, 22nd, 1968

Director

NARUSE Mikio

Cast

TAKAMINE Hideko, MURATA Chieko, MIURA Mitsuko

A screen adaptation by TANAKA Sumie of a HAYASHI Fumiko novel. Frustrated by growing tensions at home – such as her elder sister Mitsuko's being approached by her deceased husband's mistress to provide child support for the child he secretly fathered...

Release Date

Oct, 9th, 1952

Director

NOMURA Yoshitaro

Cast

IWASHITA Shima, KATO Go, HAYAKAWA Tamotsu

Oshino has but one goal in life - to revenge her humiliated father. Her mother took lover after lover and this eventually led to her father's disgrace. Beautiful Oshino tracks down the lovers, one by one, gives herself to them, and then murders them....

Release Date

Nov, 21st, 1964

Director

MASUMURA Yasuzo

Cast

KATSU Shintaro, TAMURA Takahiro, TAKI Eiko

Two soldiers, stationed in Manchuria during the last years of World War II, become friends even though one is a pacifist intellectual and the other a brawling ruffian from the streets. Scenarist Kikushima, who has worked on a number of Kurosawa films...

Release Date

Mar, 18th, 1965

Director

OKAMOTO Kihachi

Cast

KOBAYASHI Keiju, ARATAMA Michiyo, YANAI Shigeru

Unremarkable office worker Eburi Man – a play on the English word "everyman" – makes an inebriated promise to a pair of editors to write them a serial novel that will attract a huge readership. The film comically portrays his process as he mines his ...

Release Date

Nov, 16th, 1963

Director

IMAMURA Shohei

Cast

NAGATO Hiroyuki, NAKAHARA Sanae, WATANABE Misako

During the last days of the war, a certain Lieutenant Hashimoto buried morphia, valued at 60 million yen. On August 15th 1957, five persons met to discuss the recovery of the drug, but there was one more than the three with whom the lieutenant agree...

Release Date

Nov, 18th, 1958

Director

ICHIKAWA Kon

Cast

MIKUNI Rentaro, YASUI Shoji, MIHASHI Tatsuya

At the close of the war in Burma, Corporal Mizushima is tasked with persuading a holed-up group of soldiers who are still fighting to surrender. After sustaining injuries when caught in crossfire, he is rescued by a Burmese monk, whereupon he resolve...

Release Date

Feb, 12th, 1956

Director

INOUE Umetsugu

Cast

TAMIYA Jiro, WAN Ping, NARA Fujiko

A Dietman candidate kills a girl while trying to break with her. Chujo, a minor enterprises union leader, who intends to use the candidate for his own purposes when he becomes a Dietman, cannot afford a scandal. Detective Komura in charge of this mur...

Release Date

Feb, 16th, 1974

Director

EZAKI Mio

Cast

KOBAYASHI Akira, NITANI Hideaki, YUMI Keiko

The boss of Macao's gambling houses has died and the question is, "Who will succeed him?" A young Japanese is considered the chief candidate and so the Macao syndicate decides to have him killed. He meets the killer in a plush gambling den and first ...

Release Date

Oct, 8th, 1965

Director

MORITA Yoshimitsu

Cast

UCHINO Seiyo, OTAKE Shinobu, NISHIMURA Masahiko

Kishi Yusuke's same-named novel adapted as a psychological horror film by director Morita Yoshimitsu and screenplay writer Omori Sumio, who also teamed up for Keiho. Wakatsuki (Uchino Seiyo) works for a life insurance company in the ancient capital ...

Release Date

Nov, 13th, 1999

Director

MASUMURA Yasuzo

Cast

WAKAO Ayako, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, FUNAKOSHI Eiji

What do you think "The Most Valuable Madam" means? Some people say that it means a woman who keeps her husband completely under her thumb. According to another view it means a woman who has a profound knowledge about how to handle a man. lchiro, the...

Release Date

Feb, 10th, 1959

Director

OZAWA Keiichi

Cast

WATARI Tetsuya, KAYAMA Yoshiko, UCHIDA Ryohei

Japan seems good to Teppei Hondo (Tetsuya Watari)afterayearonacargoship. Hehadkilled two Shinwa Group men four years ago for killing his brother. After serving a 3-year prison term, he had thought of going home but his father, the Boss of the !-:Ion...

Release Date

Jan, 24th, 1970