Shinobu Muraki

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater, his granddaughter or grandson.

An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.

Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love.

Karin has lived alone in a secluded mountain village with her consumptive mother since her father died. Her worried grandfather advises her to send her mother to a sanatorium and be adopted by him, although she refuses to accept. On the Buddhist All Soul’s Day Festival in August, a messenger from her grandfather pays a sudden visit to her house.

En el siglo XVIII, durante una noche de luna llena, una luz cegadora aparece en un bosque de bambú cerca de la capital japonesa. Un artesano y su mujer encuentran un precioso bebé en una cuna de oro, llevando en sus manos una brillante bola de cristal. El artesano vende la cuna de oro y construye una mansión lejos de la ciudad para esconder a la niña de los ojos de los demás, ya que crece tan rápidamente que todo el mundo dudaría que es humana. Pronto se extiende el rumor de la belleza de una misteriosa joven llamada Kana, y tres nobles, incluyendo un joven ministro, desean hacerla su esposa. Una noche, cuando la luna está completa, el cristal de Kana comienza a brillar y emite un inquietante sonido. Es un mensaje de su hogar, la luna. Kana debe partir la próxima noche de luna llena...

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

En el Japón medieval, el poderoso señor Hidetora decide abdicar y repartir sus dominios entre sus tres hijos. El menor considera que la idea es absurda y sólo servirá para causar problemas. Su padre, enfurecido, lo deshereda. Muy pronto descubrirá su error: la ambición hará que sus hijos mayores se enfrenten por el poder en una cruenta guerra. Se inspira en el drama de Shakespeare "El rey Lear".

En 1985, Chris Marker viajó a Japón para asistir al rodaje de «Ran», dirigido por Akira Kurosawa. Marker analiza el progreso del rodaje; la infinita paciencia de un equipo bajo las órdenes de un director meticuloso hasta el más mínimo detalle; la mezcla antitética de lo moderno con lo tradicional; de lo real con lo ficticio; de la vida con el cine… y la literatura.

A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.

Cuatro hermanas que viven en Kyoto acuden a ver los cerezos en flor. Kon Ichikawa adapta una novela de Tanizaki y pinta un vivo retrato del estilo de vida de la preguerra en Japón.

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.

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

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in order to reveal who the murderer is.

A combination of live action and animation chronicinge the great journey of Marco Polo to the mysterious Orient. Much of the story centers on Polo's relationship with the powerful Kublai Khan.

A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to another. She dedicates herself to her work, designing and creating plaited cords for kimono.

A gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer discovers the set-up behind the killing - that a laboratory is being set up by a Nazi organization to capture and train talented youth and that the photographer was about to expose it.

A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man.

Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his employer.

Ex-jazz pianist turned promoter finds he is successful, but empty. When an entrepreneur sends him to Moscow with a jazz combo, he falls in with the dissident youth of the city, and again finds life empty.

A man with a dark past comes from Tokyo to the fishing port of Izu, and tries to begin a new life as a fisherman.

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who become a most atypical Japanese family.

Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.

Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.

An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively known as "Death of the Boss." While Okamoto did not write this film and took on the project because he was assigned and "just doing [his] job" according to an interview with Chris Desjardins in Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film, he did express a general excitement about working in action cinema (which shows through in this film's energy.)

Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lover, he runs into a neighbor who is later accused of murder. Questioned by police about the neighbor, and blackmailed by his lover's neighbor, the salaryman's lies lead him on a path to destruction.

Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the bar hostess.

A musical starring 3 Japanese pop music and TV stars.

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.