Iwao Akune

During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had heard that in April of a year when the winter has been very harsh, any couple finding fireflies together needs to get married. However, his family's situation does not allow Tatsuo to continue his worrying about such things for very much longer.

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.

A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.

명탐정 킨다이치가 이제까지 휘말린 사건 중 가장 복잡하고 미스테리한 살인이 일어났다. 폐허가 된 옛 병원 건물에 마치 풍경처럼 매달린 남자의 머리가 발견된 것. 현장을 신고한 사람은 한 젊은 여자로부터 웨딩사진 촬영을 의뢰 받은 사진사 청년. 희생자는 음악가 토시오이고, 사진 촬영을 의뢰한 젊은 여인은 그의 사돈인 코유키로 그녀는 현재 실종 상태다. 친구들은 토시오가 결혼해달라며 코유키를 쫓아다녔다고 증언을 하는데, 사실 코유키에게는 다른 남자가 있었다.

To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating back several generations must be sorted out once and for all.

The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.

‘팔묘촌’, ‘옥문도’의 작가 요코미조 세이시의 동명소설을 스크린에 옮긴 작품. 우리나라에는 소년탐정 ‘김전일’의 조부로 더 잘 알려진 명탐정 킨다이치 코스케가 이누가미 가문에서 벌어지는 연쇄살인사건을 해결해 나가는 추리물이다. 1976년 일본 최고의 흥행작이자 카도카와 영화사 시대를 연 기념비적 작품으로 독특한 오프닝과 몇몇 편집기법도 당시로서는 충격적이었다. 이 영화를 통해 킨다이치 코스케라는 가상의 인물은 일본의 국민탐정으로 떠 올랐고, 그가 등장하는 영화 및 TV 드라마가 수없이 만들어졌다. 2006년 감독 스스로 리메이크해 다시 한번 세상에 내놓기도 했던 작품.

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.

Personal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Based on the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue.

Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.

A high-schooler involved in turn-of-the-decade student movements works to escape his comfort zone and apply himself.

A young couple, composed by a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arrives at the restaurant and takes hostages. Chaos ensues in director's Kiyoshi Nishimura's debut film, almost totally filmed in one space.

1945년 8월 6일과 9일 원자폭탄이 투하되고 8일 소련참전이 이뤄지자 궁지에 몰린 일본은 결국 포츠담 선언을수락한다. 그러나 끝까지 항전할 것을 외치던 일부 군인들은 8월 15일 정오에 발표된 옥음방송(항복방송)을 저지하기 위해 쿠테타를 계획한다. 그렇게 종전까지 24시간, 일본의 가장 긴 하루의 막이 열린다! 오야 소이치의 논픽션을 원작으로 전중파 오카모토 기하치 감독이 제연출을 맡은 토호전기대작 8・15 시리즈 중 제1편. (2011년 한국영상자료원 - 오카모토 기하치 감독전)

A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Surviving somewhat miraculously, he fends off other assassins and with the help of reporter Keiko Tsurumaki and car mechanic Bill Otomo, eventually discovering that a "population control" association is really an assassination squad led by Shogo Mizorogi, who has been training patients of a mental asylum to become killers.

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffering mother. The mother and her brother try various schemes to find husbands for them.

Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.

미후네 도시로 주연의 통쾌시대극. 시현일류의 비책을 가진 검호 니이로시 쓰루치요는 자신의 출생의 비밀을 알지못한채 유유자적 하루하루를 살아간다. 그런 그가 사무라이가 되기 위해 다이로・ 이이나오스케 암살 계획에 가담하게 되는데... (2011년 한국영상자료원 - 오카모토 기하치 감독전)

During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.

Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original released alongside another Toho comedy, King Kong vs. Godzilla.

Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda

An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during the Pacific War. Matters are complicated further when he falls in love with the soldier's younger sister (Tsukasa).

에 이어 세키자와 신이치가 각본을 맡은 오카모토 기이치 감독의 '암흑가'시리즈 중 하나. 테스트 드라이버 였던 형의 사고사를 수상하게 여긴 한 남자가 사건의 진상을 파헤치던중 국제적인 산업스파이단이 관련있음을 알게되는데… (2011년 한국영상자료원 - 오카모토 기하치 감독전)

Follow-up to Desperado Outpost (1959) sees Japanese soldiers seeking the flag of a defeated regiment in China.

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting between rival gangs. Fujioka is assigned to investigate the death of the wife of gangster Tetsuo Maruyama of the Kozuka gang, probably at the hands of one of the Oka gang. During a gang gunfight, Maruyama is rescued by Detective Fujioka and the two become friends. But Maruyama insists on avenging his wife's murder, even if it means conflict with his new friend.

When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and seeks out his brother's killer.

암흑가에 몸담고 살아가던 형제가 어느 한 사건을 계기로 조직에서 발을 뺀다. 하지만 조직은 이들의 목숨을 노리는데… 등 경쾌한 청춘영화를 만들어온 오카모토 기이치감독의 첫 액션 영화. 맛깔나는 연출로 한껏 멋을낸 오카모토 기이치 감독의 세번째 작품. (2011년 한국영상자료원 - 오카모토 기하치 감독전)

The first work of 27-year-old director Eizo Sugawa, contrasting a politician father and his son, a drummer in a student band. It depicts the conflict between old and new morals, and the lives of young people.

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

An Ishiro Honda film.

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

An Ishiro Honda film.

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue. Furuya himself has fallen in love, with a nurse after his recent hospital stay. As the gang grows more jealous of the favoritism Furuya shows Shoji, they decide to reveal Shoji's relationship with Natsue. But Furuya's affection for Shoji cannot be easily destroyed, even in the gang war that erupts.

Period romantic drama.

Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match in which Maki has an interest in one of the fighters. After a terrible brawl, the two gangsters discover that they have both been played for suckers by their bosses. They join forces to turn the tables on the bosses.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.