Movies

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...

A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency, where...

1962 Japanese movie

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own...

Inochi uruwashi

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. First installment of a wartime film trilogy.

Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant...

The actions and downfall of a man who lives a life of cold calculation, adapted from a Hideo Shirasaki novel.

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter's marriage. The play was...

1964 Japanese movie

The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out...

Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.

A multifaced portrayal of ordinary life, revealing its hidden aspects! The second film in the "Bride Series" following "The Embraced Bride" is an...

A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka...

The Glorious Days

In postwar Osaka’s bustling textile district, a tough and highly rational moneylender named Katsumi builds a successful lending business in a...