Police Officer
After an old man is attacked by a bear in the snowy mountains of northern Japan, he vows to hunt down the marauder.
An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War.
3 people are fresh and naive so they try to go from wandering around lonely to becoming a lively young bunch. Tanokin’s youthful energy explodes!
Toramatsu
幕末もいよいよ押し迫り、明治への改元を2年後に控えた慶応2年。横浜港の沖合で難破・漂流し、アメリカ船に助けられてかの地へ渡っていた貧しい農家出身の源次が、6年ぶりに日本に帰国。彼の留守中、恋女房のイネは、病身の老父によって売られ、いまや両国の見世物小屋で、裸を売り物にした芸をしながら生活していた。その両国界隈には、見世物小屋や売春宿の元締め・金蔵、元旗本の古川ほか、さまざまな連中がたむろしていた。
Exorcist
This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai, represented by Prince Susano-O and elderly advisor Sumuke, hire Yumihiko of Matsuro to hunt the phoenix so that Queen Himiko, sister of Susano-O can have eteranal life.
In this crime thriller produced by Toshiro Mifune (who has a supporting role), hard-boiled Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year old daughter, with the aid of an Ainu dog summoned by a whistle she gave him.
Police Yamamoto
「…彼女は女王蜂である。慕いよる男どもをかたっぱしから死にいたらしめる運命にある。…」 昭和26年、月琴島で育てられた大道寺智子は18歳になり、父・大道寺欣造の住む東京の屋敷に引き取られることになっていた。その欣造宛てに奇妙な手紙が届き、智子を呼び寄せてはいけないと警告していた。手紙は月琴島で19年前に起こった学生の事故死にも触れ、「あれは果たして過失であったか」と疑問を投げかける。不安を感じたらしい欣造は金田一耕助に調査を依頼。金田一は智子の後見人として月琴島に渡り、智子の東京行きに同行することになる。 一方、智子は、東京行きの直前のある日、椿の根元から開かずの間の鍵を見つけ出した。好奇心に駆られた彼女が、開かずの間の中で見たものは、血のついた月琴であった。 島を出て、伊豆のホテル松籟荘に着いた智子の前に、大道寺欣造、文彦らのほか、欣造の薦める3人の婿候補者（遊佐三郎、駒井泰次郎、三宅嘉文）と、謎の手紙で呼び出された多門連太郎が現れる。智子を巡る争いのうちに、惨劇の幕が開かれる。
東京の高級ホテルのエレベーターで黒人男性が殺された。“ストーハ”という言葉と、西条八十の詩集を残して。捜査線上に見え隠れするファッションデザイナー八杉恭子とその息子。黒人男性の過去を追って渡米する棟寄刑事。八杉と黒人男性の意外な関係、そしてアメリカの刑事と棟寄刑事の関係が明らかになる。
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally, rescues his niece who is about to be lured into prostitution.
Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld.
Business is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon starring Teruhiko Saigo. Set in a wholesaler town in Osaka, it depicts the activities of the main character Takezo Yamashita who repels adversity with a man's stubbornness and guts.
Chôtarô Funaki
A taut, economical policier-cum-gang-hostage thriller.
Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival who falls in love with the latter's wife and tries to kill Tamai.
関東は花の東京新橋育ち、姓は樋口、名はナミと発します”ドスのきいた口上で颯爽と登場、前作の玉突き博奕から花札賭博師へと装いも新たに大活躍するご存知、銀蝶シリーズ第二弾！父親の復讐のためにヤクザな世界に身を投げ打った主人公・緋ざくらナミを梶芽衣子が演じ、蝶をあしらった和服を着こなし、手際よい札さばきを見せる。
A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to gambling and challenges the racketeer threatening to sell the place to a game.
Akamatsu
A detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.
Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the circumstances, they try to not act on their attraction. However, as time goes by, they realise that, perhaps, they cannot be without each other. Will the forbidden love affair move forward and can they finally be with each other?
Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
Muraki, car shop owner
Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tracks down one of her classmates fathers, who runs an auto repair shop that the local Yakuza are trying to force out of business and take over, and starts working for him. At the same time a recently released from prison, and now ill Yakuza is trying to make a new life for himself and his girl, a friend of Reiko's, who also just graduated from reform school. A fateful car crash brings the two on a collision course with each other and the brutal Yakuza clan, which can only end bloody vengeance.
Officer Sakashita
Tetsuko (Eiko Yanami), a high school student, one day, forces Tsuneo, (Kei Wakakura), the brightest boy in her school, to make love to her after school is out and they are caught by the old school janitor. Tsuneo's mother, orders Tetsuko to pay for what she did to her son but Tetsuko blackmails her instead, saying that she is ready to inform a news company of what has happened to Tsuneo and receives one million yen hush money. Expelled from school, she comes to Tokyo, intending to take a round-the-world trip. But Sankichi (Yoshihiko Aoyama), a jack-of-all-trades, cheats her. So, she makes up her mind to catch him and get back her money.
Yukichi Shima
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
Young geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago comes true. When she learns of the trouble Yukichi's business is facing, she stands ready to come to his aid, and thus repay a debt that's long overdue.
野村芳太郎監督の人情喜劇。北海道から上京してきた萩本欽一扮する青年と、坂上二郎扮する都電の運転手との嫁取り話。舞台は都電というところがこの映画のみどころでもある。今陽子はキラーズをようして「星空のロマンス」と「恋人の讃歌」を熱唱。そして皆川おさむがピンキーとともにでて「黒猫のタンゴ」を二人で歌っている。また坂上二郎の昔の恋人役で中山千夏が出てきて「あなたの心に」が流れる。そして、この年に丸善石油の宣伝「おーモーレツ！」で一世風靡した小川ローザも出演している。
Bluebeard
A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.
A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.
A drama from director Masaharu Segawa.
Japanese crime film
A drama by director Masaharu Segawa.
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
Comedy about two employees who work against their boss.
Tenth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Ôkura
舞台は横浜伊勢佐木町。ミナト横浜のロケーション効果も美しく、梅宮辰夫を中心とした五人の男女の激しい情事を、甘く哀しくリアルに描きあげる。ネオンの世界を生々と泳ぐ梅宮辰夫。ホステスからママへ、男を渡り歩く女・宮園純子。梅宮を慕う純情ホステス・清水まゆみ。女に目のない土地成金の伴淳三郎。ダニのように女を食い物にする、ヤクザの吉田輝雄。華やかなネオンの裏の恋の種々相を、メロドラマ風に味つけしたムード満点の作品。青江三奈のヒットメロディーに乗せて、夜の盛り場風俗をアクションとメロドラマで綴る夜の歌謡シリーズ！[人情]
Nonagase Kumayoshi
クラブのボーイ・渉は夜の世界を巧みに泳ぐプレイボーイ。洗練された容貌にものをいわせ、口からでまかせ、女を口説く憎めない男だが、渉にいれあげる女も多かった。「千人斬り」を目指す野長瀬社長はスナックで知り合った千津子を口説いていたが、ドライな千津子は誘いを巧みにかわしていた。そんな千津子をみた渉は自らも交際を迫るがあっさり振られてしまう。だが、一度や二度で振られて引き下がる渉ではない。千津子を強引に誘い出すことに成功するのだが…。
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.
Rainbow Over the Pacific is a tale of romance that moves from the streets of Tokyo to the islands of Hawaii as it weaves the story of two star-crossed lovers--Hideo (Yukio Hashi), an aspiring photographer from Japan, and Reiko (Jun Mayuzumi), a beautiful Sansei Cherry Blossom contestant from Hawaii--who are drawn together by destiny, yet appear to be fated to be apart. Will the sun set on their young love, or will it be the dawn of a new relationship?
Japanese comedy film.
A mayoral candidate and his love child.
A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a daughter of a Japanese restaurant’s owner. His father is not happy because Komakichi has no intention to become a rickshaw man to follow in his father’s footsteps.
Detective Maeda
Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.
Sukeroku Sasagawa
Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.
Senzô Kamei
The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.
An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both arrested by detective. A year later gambler is staying with gangster boss when he comes across that woman and her partner again. Boss lusts for both her and his own daughter, while the boss's crazy yakuza brother loves his daughter, who, in turn, watches the player and wants to destroy the people standing in her way. And here lies one of the film's remarkable departures from the standard ninkyo efforts: it doesn't have a third party villain, nor a clear distinction between good and evil. It's bursting with romantic emotion and wrenched with gritty realism, shot with striking black and white compositions, and explodes into shocking carnage. It has lengthier, more detailed gambling scenes than any other yakuza film I've seen. And it has a heartbreakingly beautiful score. You could call it the Ashes of Time of ninkyo yakuza films. A masterpiece!
The Domain: White Blade
Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.
Banno Magosaku
#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to 25 years later, the students have each settled into their careers and cross paths with Professor Sakai's son, a P.E. teacher (also played by Sakai).
Japanese comedy film.
Yumisaka
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.
The last judgment.
Danbara Kinsaku
全日本理容選手権大会で、段原金作は前年度の優勝者海老名銀子を破って一等に入賞した。立派な腕をもちながら恵まれなかった金作は、これが機会で「タイヨウ理髪店」の主人海老名銀平にスカウトされ、住み込みで働くことになった。
Kamezo Ikeda
Japanese comedy film.
Movie directed by Kunio Matoi
Chojiro
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 forced labor. Living conditions on the island are terrible and the men soon become rebellious. Based on a short story by Seichō Matsumoto.
Senzō Sakuma
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol.
Jugoro Okawa
A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.
中村登の映画（１９６２年）
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
Kametarô Mita
Japanese comedy film.
Magosaku Gonda
Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.
Manao Horiuchi movie
The film takes place in a dark area of the giant city of Osaka and tells about a group of people who find themselves at the bottom of society, and about the courage of a man who defies the city of violence in search of his beloved sister.
Monzaburo
The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers, Tatsu and Sanko are unaware that Tatsuko is the heiress to a fortune. Two strong-arm brothers, Kosaka and Takeshi, learn of her identity and join the gang in an effort to shake down the tycoon for ten million yen. Upon joining forces, their first move is to rid themselves of the driver whose identity is known to the police because of a cap which he left behind at the scene of the crime. Upon obtaining the ransom money, the brothers murder the two kidnappers and go to the port city of Kobe. The younger brother, Takeshi, has fallen in love with the prisoner and refuses to allow her to be killed and they take her with them from one hideout to another.
Second "Pfc. Story" sequel and the ninth and final sequel to "Story of Second Class Private", the only one in both series not directed by Seiichi Fukuda.
Yotsematsu, Hanako's father
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.
First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
伴淳三郎が粋でモダンな河内山宗俊に扮して、江戸で起こった一つの殺人事件を解決していく爆笑捕物帖。
豊臣方が関ケ原の戦いに敗けた頃のオハナシ。紀州九度山の真田幸村は家臣にクジ引きさせ、猿飛佐助と三好清海入道の二人を駿府へ旅立せ、徳川方の動静を探らせることにした。腹心の美女お国から報告を受けた本多佐渡守は、江戸から伊賀流の忍者・芥田九郎兵衛を呼び寄せると共に、諸国の忍術使いを集めて、佐助に対抗させようとした。
Genzo Furumaki
First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Yûkichi Momozawa
会津若松で育ち、東京の大学に通う岩垣が久々に帰省し、４人の友人と再会した。しかし、現在の立場や環境を異にする彼らには、既にそれぞれの人生の苦悩があり…。
Genkichi Furuyama
Sixth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.
An entertainment movie featuring familiar faces of Toyama no Kin-san, Nezumi Kozo, Yaji Kita, and others who traveled around the Tokaido. Written and directed by Kunio Watanabe. A group of samurai rushed into the Sakura Opera Troupe in the mountain village, chasing a young woman named Chiyohime who was promoting dancing around Edo Asakusa area. Suri Nao and Kinshiro Toyama was there and saved her. Meanwhile, the samurai asked the acquaintance Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi to find her. Jirokichi visited Kinshiro 's house, and found her there…
Takasawa
A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.
Half a Loaf... Avarice / Yoku
Principal Tanuki
1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Private second class Furuyama
Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Isuke
Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small inn in the Kyoto suburb of Fushimi. She does not have an easy life. Her husband, Isuke (Ban Junzaburo), is a wastrel who fancies himself a kabuki singer and who is obsessed with cleanliness. Her mother-in-law, Sada (Miyoshi Eiko) dislikes her because of her humble origins (her family are farmers) and because she fears that she will inherit the inn instead of Sugi, her daughter. Sada's hopes for Sugi, however, are dashed when she runs off with a con artist and leaves her child behind for Tose to take care of. When Sada becomes seriously ill, it is Tose who nurses her. On her deathbed, Sada asks her daughter-in-law's forgiveness. Meanwhile Isuke spends most of his time with a mistress he has taken, forcing Tose to manage the inn by herself
Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
Third sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Second sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
First film in a series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku.
President Ichimura
永楽商事社員桜井は妻直子と子供の三人暮らしだが、直子の悠子が親の勧める縁談を嫌って家出して来た。近所の会社員山田は、ある夜バーのマダムに送られて遅く帰って来たため、激しい夫婦喧嘩が始まる
Romanov
This is a paradise of dream and illusion, a country of Raccoon Dogs. The Bat Tribe lives in a neighboring country took a young prince of Raccoon Dogs as a hostage, and try to take a Buddhist saint from the temple by force.
Sato Tadanobu / Kitsune Tadanobu
Japanese comedy film.
A samurai detective film.
Comedy directed by Torajiro Saito about swordsmen in the era of feudal Japan.
Handa
A 1954 film.
Fortuneteller
A human billboard and a shoeshine girl met a kid of five who got separated from her mother at a street of Ginza. They try to find a mother in a crowded town...
The story of a ghostly thief in Edo who calls himself the fireball guy.
Kira Kozukenosuke
A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.
製作は「若君罷り通る」の杉山茂樹、脚本は「母の瞳」の八住利雄、監督は「牛若丸」の大曾根辰夫、撮影は「武蔵と小次郎」の片岡清である。出演者は「リンゴ園の少女」の美空ひばり、「唄祭り清水港」の高田浩吉、宮城千賀子、「あなたほんとに凄いわね」の森川信、「若君罷り通る」の堺駿二のほか、神楽坂はん子、西川ヒノデ、島ひろし、ミス・ワカサなどの芸能人連である。 1952年製作／92分／日本 配給：松竹
圭子は可憐な港の花売娘で、盲目の母しげと二人で暮らしていた。唯一の望みは、満州から引揚げの途中行方不明になった兄浩が無事でいてくれることだった。最近消息がわかり、貨物船の船員になって、この港へ帰って来るはずが船は入港したが、密輸に加担しなかった浩は上陸出来なかった…
Based on the comic by Machiko Hasegawa
Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san" (the president) run away from the job. Nobuko took Buntaro to her home and introduced him to her own family as friend, "Sachio-san"...
Japanese comedy film.
Japanese comedy film.
The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Kazuo Mori. It is a cheerful period drama, sprinkled with comical scenes and tells the story of a loyal and handsome Edo period servant who fights to help his older brother marry the woman he loves. The star of this film Utaemono Ichikawa gained enormous popularity for his portrayal of a cheerful and chivalrous man.
A quintessential example of the period "ghost cat" (bakeneko or kaibyo) movie, this was one of at least six such titles released by the studio Shinko Kinema between 1937-40 featuring Japan's first scream queen, Sumiko Suzuki. Here she plays Mitsue, the possessive onna-kabuki actress betrothed to apprentice shamisen player Seijiro. When one day Okiyo, a beautiful young girl of samurai class, is led to Seijiro's house by his lost cat Kuro, she becomes besotted with him. Dark jealous passions are invoked in Mitsue, which are intensified when Seijiro gifts Okiyo his precious shamisen. The cat is the first to suffer at the end of Mitsue's hairpin, but returns from the grave to assist Okiyo's younger sister Onui avenge her sister's murder.
伊勢野重任の原作を伊丹万作が脚色・監督した時代劇コメディ。ネガもプリントも失われてており、現在見られるものは復元された24分の短縮編集版のみ。(オリジナルは84分)
二人の浪人が西国随一の剣豪である伊勢伊勢守に仕える者を名乗れば豪遊ができると聞き、無き知恵をしぼってよからぬ事を企んだ。
Uncle Masagoro
