Director

WATANABE Kunio

Cast

TAKADA Kokichi, SAGA Michiko, TAKACHIHO Hizuru

In the middle of the 19th century, Sukegoro of Iioka, and Shigezo of Sasagawa, are gambling bosses whose territories in the Kashima district, divided by the River Tone are competing to increase their influence. The Sukegoro, old established, and in l...

Release Date

May, 13th, 1958

Director

YOSHIMURA Kozaburo

Cast

KYO Machiko, WAKAO Ayako, KANO Junko

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into pictur...

Release Date

Jun, 28th, 1961

Director

MASUDA Toshio

Cast

ISHIHARA Yujiro, NITANI Hideaki, IWASAKI Kaneko

Saeki, a Japanese newspaper man is sent to Bangkok to investigate suspected illegal sales of Japanese-made arms. He discovers that Hayami and another man employed by the Japanese weapons company, although previously reported dead, are still alive and...

Release Date

Apr, 28th, 1963

Director

YAMADA Yoji

Cast

ATSUMI Kiyoshi, MORIKAWA Shin, MISAKI Chieko

Tora-san (Kiyoshi Atsumi), the itinerant street vendor, continues his so-called "business trip". But it is Shibamata, his home town in Tokyo, which occupies his heart. There his uncle (Shin Morikawa), aunt (Chieko Misaki), sister Sakura (Chieko Baish...

Release Date

Jan, 15th, 1971

Director

MISUMI Kenji

Cast

KATSU Shintaro, AMACHI Shigeru, BANRI Masayo

The first installment of the popular Zatoichi series, which over the course of twenty-six films stamped its mark on popular culture worldwide. Zatoichi, a humble blind swordsman skilled in the quick-draw sword technique of iai-jutsu, encounters Hirat...

Release Date

Apr, 18th, 1962

Director

MAGATANI Morihei

Cast

SUGAWARA Bunta, OZORA Mayumi, NUMATA Yoichi

This is an amusing comedy-film with bright, humorous and satirical touches, in the telling of a modern weak-hearted young man who fails to commit suicide by drowning and then goes astray into a dreamland. Here, in turn various exotic and romantic, s...

Release Date

Feb, 8th, 1961

Director

WATANABE Kunio

Cast

TAKEWAKI Muga, TAKAHASHI Koji, OZAKI Nana

Shogoro Yano (Koji Takahashi) attempts to reform Jujitsu, the traditional martial art, by harmonizing technique with theory. So he opens Kodokan, an exercise-hall, where he teaches his followers Judo of his own doctrine and forbids them to fight thos...

Release Date

Jul, 25th, 1970

Director

OSHIMA Nagisa

Cast

YOKOO Tadanori, YOKOYAMA Rie, KARA Juro

An allegorical portrayal of the relationship between a young book thief named Birdie and Umeko, a store clerk who catches him in the act. The action unfolds against the chaotic and politically charged backdrop of Shinjuku in 1968, a convergence point...

Release Date

Feb, 15th, 1969

Director

UCHIKAWA Seiichiro

Cast

TANBA Tetsuro, WANIBUCHI Haruko, SONOI Keisuke

In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders, the Yagyu Clan, to repair the Nikko Shrine. As the orders cannot be rejected the very poor clan must find means to raise the vast sum of money necessary for the repairs. The eldest son Genzaburo and his younger...

Release Date

Nov, 17th, 1963

Director

ICHIMURA Hirokazu

Cast

SAKAMOTO Kyu, KOGA Masao, KAGA Mariko

This is film version of the most famous novel of Natsume Soseki, well-known in the West in its English translation. It is about a young school-teacher who has just obtained his first job at the turn-of-the- century when Japan is just accustoming itse...

Release Date

Aug, 13th, 1966

Director

YAMADA Tatsuo

Cast

NAGATO lsamu, IWASHITA Shima, YAMANOUCHI Akira

Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream is eventually realized when he is transferred to the new and powerful destroyer Yukikaze which he he...

Release Date

Feb, 16th, 1964

Director

MIZOGUCHI Kenji

Cast

TANAKA Kinuyo, YAMANE Hisako, MIFUNE Toshiro

Mizoguchi Kenji's adaptation of a literary classic won the International Award at the 13th Venice International Film Festival. Oharu (Tanaka Kuniyo) is a star-crossed woman destroyed by men, both hateful and beloved. One freezing winter morning at d...

Release Date

Apr, 2nd, 1952

Director

URAYAMA Kirio

Cast

IZUMI Masako, HAMADA Mitsuo, KOZUKI Minako

Because of her drunken father, 15 year old Wakae leaves school and is working in a cheap bar. When she steals a pair of shoes, a young hoodlum who knows of the theft, demands three thousand yen and she breaks into a high school, is discovered, and fl...

Release Date

Mar, 17th, 1963

Director

INOUE Umetsugu

Cast

HONGO Kojiro, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, FUJIMAKI Jun

This is a dynamic story of five young soldiers from diverse walks of life who are thrown together in the final stages of the lmphal Operation in Burma. It is the vivid account of the fears, rivalries, and hates of ordinary men whose love of self is f...

Release Date

Apr, 26th, 1961

Director

MATSUYAMA Zenzou

Cast

TAKAMINE Hideko, TAMURA Takahiro, ISHIHAMA Akira

After immigrating to Hawaii, the first generation Japanese settlers have a difficult time, but through hard work gradually improve their position. Among the immigrants are the Inoues and the Godas. The Inoues have two sons, Haruo and Akira, and the ...

Release Date

Apr, 29th, 1962

Director

OZAWA Keiichi

Cast

WATARI Tetsuya, MATSUBARA Chieko, WADA Koji

Boss Matsunaga (Michitare Mizushima) controls the territory in an industrial city. One day, he is attacked by hoodlums, fights them in self- defense but gets a 7-year prison rap for killing them. He does not know it is a trap set by the Toyukai gang ...

Release Date

Mar, 8th, 1969