6.8
Temptation
IMDb: 6.8 1957 91 min
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art ...
5.9
Bare Essence of Life
IMDb: 5.9 2009 120 min
Yojin, an eccentric young farmer living in the countryside, falls in love for the first time in his life. Her name is Machiko, she teaches in a ...
7.3
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
IMDb: 7.3 2007 142 min
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku – ...
6.9
Hungry Soul, Part II
IMDb: 6.9 1956 97 min 1 views
A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with ...
6.4
The Rambling Guitarist
IMDb: 6.4 1959 78 min 1 views
Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the ...
7.4
A Slope in the Sun
IMDb: 7.4 1958 209 min
The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she ...
7.7
Red Suspicion
IMDb: 7.7 1975
Sachiko is the 17-year old daughter of radiotherapist Professor Oshima. After exposure to radiation in the hospital, she develops leukemia. As if ...
7.3
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
IMDb: 7.3 1967 99 min 1 views
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so ...
6.8
Lullaby to Kill
IMDb: 6.8 1977 144 min 1 views
Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old ...
6.7
With Beauty and Sorrow
IMDb: 6.7 1965 106 min 3 views
When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager–and then wrote a bestselling novel about it–reappears in her life, ...
7.9
Kwaidan
IMDb: 7.9 1965 183 min 3 views
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning “ghost story,” this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai ...
7.3
Youth of the Beast
IMDb: 7.3 1963 92 min
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo’s underworld explodes with violence.
7.4
The Inheritance
IMDb: 7.4 1962 108 min 2 views
A dying businessman intends to will ¥200 million to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.
7
Samurai Spy
IMDb: 7 1965 100 min 1 views
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a ...
6.6
Take Aim at the Police Van
IMDb: 6.6 1960 79 min 2 views
A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
