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.

Two poor, married farmers have recently lost their only child; after a freak visitation, they pry open an alien cocoon to greet their new daughter.

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

No Japão medieval, um velho senhor da guerra se aposenta, entregando seu império a seus três filhos. No entanto, ele subestima amplamente como o novo poder irá corrompê-los. O senhor de guerra japonês Hidetori Ichimonji decide que chegou o momento de se aposentar e dividir seu feudo entre seus três filhos. Seus filhos mai velho e do meio, Taro e Jiro, concordam com sua decisão e prometem apoiá-lo nos dias restantes de aposentadoria. O filho mais novo, Saburo, discorda de todos eles argumentando que há pouca probabilidade dos três irmãos permanecerem unidos. Insultado pela impaciência de seu filho caçula, o senhor da guerra o expulsa. Quando o senhor da guerra começa sua aposentadoria, ele rapidamente percebe que seus dois filhos mais velhos são egoístas e não têm intenção de cumprir suas promessas. Isso leva à guerra e só o banido Saburo pode salvá-lo.

In 1985, Chris Marker traveled to Japan to attend the filming of Ran, directed by Akira Kurosawa. Marker analyzes the progress of filming; the infinite patience of a team under the orders of a meticulous director down to the smallest detail; the antithetical mixture of the modern with the traditional; of the real with the fictitious; of life with cinema… and literature.

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

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.

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.