Zenbei Terazawa
Sanada
The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1970, Uemura also accomplished several "firsts". He was the first man to reach the North Pole solo, climb Denali solo, and float down the Amazon river solo. In the film, Uemura returns to Tokyo after a stint in Siorapaluk in Northern Greenland. In Tokyo, he reconnects with an old friend and, over coffee, shares his life story - from his days as a college dropout to his successful expedition to the top of Everest.
Interrogator (segment "Runaway Horses")
25 ноября 1970 года. Знаменитый японский писатель Юкио Мисима встал рано утром, надел военную форму и вместе с соратниками из «Общества щита» отправился на базу сухопутных войск сил самообороны в Итигая с целью призвать солдат совершить государственный переворот. По пути Мисима вспоминает свою жизнь и ее влияние на его произведения.
Shozo Godai
Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!
Genji Tagawa
A double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real estate companies. A prosecutor who senses a setup exposes the truth.
Horie
Эйдзи Фудзино оставил карьеру служащего и открыл дешевую закусочную «Тёдзи», теперь все его зовут Тёдзи. Трудно понять, откуда у этого бывшего спортсмена так много терпения, выдержки и смирения. Многие годы он хранит в сердце тайну.
In collaboration with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released, superimposed cast, a group image of real politicians centered on Shigeru Yoshida and political history after the war.
Chief Nakagawa
Три эпизода из жизни полицейского Эйдзи Миками. Кажется, что нас ожидает захватывающий боевик с драками и погоней, однако, каждый эпизод называется именем женщины, при этом Миками — волк-одиночка. С кем из них у него сложатся прочные отношения, не знает никто. Что изменилось в его душе за 20 лет службы в полиции, где он закончит свою жизнь, на заснеженных улицах Саппоро или на родном острове, где его ждет престарелая мать, теряющая рассудок?
Riichiro Ujima
Out of the blue, a bourgeois family on the Sea of Japan finds an unconscious woman on the beach and decides to let her board.
Кано — якудза. Он должен убить Мацуоку, который предал их босса. Кано знал, что у Мацуоки была трёхлетняя дочь, поэтому прежде, чем сдаться полиции, он попросил, чтобы его человек, которому он доверял, заботился о ней. В тюрьме Кано продолжал посылать письма девочке, маскируясь под дядю из Бразилии. 15 лет спустя Кано выходит из тюрьмы. Бывший якузда настроен жить, не нарушая закон, однако жизнь вносит свои коррективы.
Nobuyuki Kinomata
Legendary detective returns
Professor Masato Takigawa
The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the sudden arrival of a strange army of aliens and their fleet of unstoppable warships.
Ito
Прокурор Мориока арестован полицией по обвинению в грабежах и изнасиловании. В его квартире найдены многочисленные улики, находятся свидетели, и генеральный прокурор города Токио не верит в его невиновность. Стремясь доказать, что все это подстроено, Мориока бежит из-под стражи и, скрываясь от правосудия, начинает собственное расследование, начинает опасную погоню…
Ken's older sister Yoko, who has raised Ken like a mother, decides to move to Brazil with an older man.
Arashiyama
When a priceless jewel owned by rich heiress Sabine is stolen, along with her daughter, Professional thief and hired killer Ryuichi Koga and his gang are hired to retrieve both. At a ransom exchange, the team save the girl but lose the money and the jewel. When Sabine decides to deal directly with the thieves and obtains the jewel on her own by paying the ransom, Koga, having been stiffed of his fee by Sabine, steals the jewel. Little does he know, it’s a fake. Now, Koga and the team must break into a high security bank to steal the real jewel.
Вице-адмирал Императорского флота Японии Ониси Такидзиро, блестящий стратег, один из немногих, кто смотрит в будущее. Он знает, что Япония не может выиграть Тихоокеанскую войну. Поскольку военная обстановка становится критической, он предлагает отчаянный план, чтобы вынудить врага договориться о мире и избежать позора сдачи - самоубийственные атаки камикадзе - летчиков-смертников. Это истинная история человека, который организовал разрушительные нападения камикадзе, и трагических последствий его рокового решения...
Arashiyama
Джон Шей, агент британской секретной службы, убеждён, что в их системе работает двойной агент. Более того, он убеждён, что это — его прежний коллега Адам Бут. Вопреки воле начальства, он отправляется на поиски улик способных доказать вину Бута.
The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.
A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.
Jukichi Kazama
A story of lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.
Rear Admiral Ota
Последней и наиболее крупной десантной операцией американских вооруженных сил на завершающем этапе Второй Мировой войны была операция «Айсберг», направленная на захват острова Окинава. Для японцев Окинава — это был последний рубеж на пути ненавистных американцев на прекрасную родину. Поскольку в живой силе Япония сильно проигрывала, основная надежда Японии возлагалась на смертников камикадзе.
Terajima, an ex-yakuza and current nightclub owner, is brought back into the world of crime when his former brother attempts a hostile take over.
Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few other players. When he's released in 1927, the world has changed. His sister died in the Great Kanto Earthquake and his father is also gone. His brother Jukichi invites him to stay at his in-laws and works in their family pub. He lies low, helping his blind mother-in-law and slowly developing a relationship with Ikuye, the hostess who helped him before his arrest. But trouble lurks when the resident gang decides to show its strength.
Maruoka Yusuke / Orochimaru
A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo of a dragon who is said to be responsible for the death of their former leader.
Japanese crime film
This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series
Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfriend's married another man. It's payback time.
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
Kazama Jukichi
Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejuro must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...
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.
Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.
Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.
Два главных героя, капитан-лейтенант Осато и лейтенант Мисима прилагают все усилия для развития подводных диверсионных сил, торпед-камикадзе и их использования в японском флоте. Однако они наталкиваются на стену непонимания и неприятия. Только в тот момент, когда поражение Японии в войне почти неизбежно, принято решение о внедрении этого разрушительного оружия. При одном из тренировочных погружений Осато погибает и теперь завершить дело всей его жизни должен Мисима.
After being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to saving the Kajima’s lucrative lumber business.
Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.
Kyohei Shigemasa
It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and comes to the city of Odahama, where he had a mistress, Okei, whom he could not forget. He accidentally helped a man named Hanji from the Kurokane family and was received by the family as a guest. And soon Eijiro is involved in a showdown between the yakuza families.
Kunitaro Nagano
Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family.
A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother.
Yakuza families clash over a lucrative fishery business.
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the rival Sakaki Family. When the Soda attacks the Sakaki and double-crosses him, with sword in hand, Hidejiro seeks brutal retribution.
Kazama
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second-generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in the Enko area. Iwasa has Gennosuke assassinated but before he dies, he names Shinji Terajima as his successor and makes him swear to carry on the family business and not seek revenge or use violence. Shinji tries to make his family’s marketplace a success, but with constant interruption and attacks from Iwasa’s gang, he can no longer keep his word to his former boss.
"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…
Muraki
Гангстер Мураки выходит из тюрьмы, отсидев там 3 года за убийство. Он сразу же возвращается к своей старой жизни и старым привычкам, таким как азартные игры. На одной из таких игр он и знакомиться с девушкой по имени Саэко, которая любит играть не меньше его. Чем ближе Мураки узнает ее, тем лучше видит в ней пагубную силу азарта.
История о нападении японской авиации в начале Первой мировой войны на форт Бисмарк — немецкую базу в Китае.
Chikara Tsuchiya
Озлившись на то, что юный Асано не хочет одаривать подарками представителей знати, старый церемониймейстер подставляет его, заставив вынуть меч из ножен в доме Сегуна. Асано делает харакири, а его клану суждено сгинуть. Но управляющий Оиси придумал план, благодаря которому можно не только спасти клан Асано, но и отомстить Сегунату, казнившему его хозяина.
Dr. Tazawa
In 1980, a giant planetoid named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Even though it is smaller than Earth, its mass is huge enough to crush the Earth and destroy it. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after all the orbiting ships are drawn into the planetoid. A later mission is sent to observe and the crew barely leaves before suffering the same fate. However Astronaut Tatsuo Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. The Earth's scientists then come up with a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move Earth out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.
The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
Ko Tanomura, who was ordered to study abroad in the United States for two years as a youth executive at Haneda Airport and a royal industry, was looking for the appearance of Sako Ozegawa from a large number of see-offs. --Kou's father, Cheongju, is an authority on religious studies, and Orie is his third wife. Eiko, who is a distant relative of Orie, came to Tokyo to care for her sick. Two months ago, Ko, who first met Eiko, was deeply moved...
Kikumori
Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of drug dealers tries to force the pair to cooperate in a smuggling scheme, conflict arises between the two friends. Falsely blamed for murder, Kikumori is blackmailed into an attempt to sabotage Kaji's boats and kill him. But the friendship between the two men proves an obstacle to the gangleader's plans.
Период в истории японского Императорского флота с декабря 1941 по июнь 1942 гг. Атака на Перл-Харбор, победоносное шествие по Юго-Восточной Азии и Индийскому океану и, наконец, апофеоз истории Императорского флота, — сражение у атолла Мидуэй. Рассказ об этих событиях с точки зрения молодого штурмана японского палубного торпедоносца Кодзи Китами, который разрывается между долгом к родине и желанием жить ради матери и молодой жены.
Major Ichiro Katsumiya
Главы крупнейших мировых держав вынуждены забыть о разногласиях и объединиться, чтобы дать отпор оккупировавшим Землю инопланетным захватчикам. Для начала нужно разрушить ближайшую базу пришельцев, расположенную на Луне.
Adapted by Yasumi Toshio and directed by Toyoda Shiro, this is a literary work based on a full-length novel of the same name published by Shiga Naoya of the Shirakaba School.
Вторая мировая война. Капитан подводной лодки против своего желания берёт на борт двух западных дипломатов, чтобы переправить их испанским Канарским островам и заключить перемирие. Но во время их транспортировки судно вынуждено вступить в отчаянную схватку с врагами у берегов Малайзии.
Seizo Nabayama
An Ishiro Honda film.
1958 Theater of Life adaptation.
Ryônosuke Taya
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while. As they travel, they are constantly beset by complications involving women, mistaken identity, and misunderstood events. Another film adaptation of the famous novel Ikku Jippensha Footing It Along the Tokaido (Tokaidochu Hizakurige)
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes of having a quiet vacation without being noticed. But she is spotted and the press has a field-day with the returning celebrity. Her hopes of rest shattered, she agrees to put on a large-scale fashion show.
Shimamura
Праздный путешественник, дилетант-критик по имени Симамура, приезжает на север Японии, в Снежную страну, чтобы вновь встретиться со своей любовницей — гейшей Комако. Но в поезде он замечает другую девушку — Ёко, которая в видении Кавабата олицетворяет нереальный мир, мир зеркального отражения.
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.
Xu Xian
По мотивам китайского сказания «Легенда о Белой Змее» (Pai-she Chuan) и романа Фусао Хаяси «Заклятие Белой Госпожи». В эпоху Сун в Ханчжоу бедный Сюй-сянь встречает прекрасную и знатную Бай-нян. Их союз кажется невозможным, но Бай-нян готова разрушить все преграды на пути к своей любви.
Kosuke Kindaichi
The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.
Shôji Sugiyama
Сёдзи Сугияма — конторский служащий в одной из токийских компаний. Не испытывая интереса к скучной и бесперспективной работе, Сёдзи ищет спасения в дружеских посиделках и коллективных выездах на природу. Во время одной из таких поездок начинается его роман с секретаршей Канэко, которую все зовут Золотой рыбкой за её большие глаза. Масако, жена Сёдзи, замечает изменения в поведении мужа и начинает что-то подозревать.
Period romantic drama.
Naojiro Mikazuki
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at sento (public baths) too. The handwritten text on the bottom here announces the film will play at Hassen for 3 days.
Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Rikiya Kizu
An Ishiro Honda film.
Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman at the mercy of war. Wataru is entrusted by his best friend who has gone off to war with his sister Reiko to marry her, but he is not ready to abandon his love for Kumiko, a nurse at his mother's hospital.
Captain Wakabayashi
Фильм о битве за Рабаул, ключевом форпосте обороны японцев во второй мировой войне на Тихом океане. Фильм не только о войне, но и о любви, человеческих взаимоотношениях в таких тяжёлых условиях жизни.
Ueda [sandwich man]
На многолюдных улицах района Гиндза каждый день происходит множество разных происшествий. Сегодня опять потерялась маленькая девочка. Мама привезла её, чтобы купить малышке красные туфельки, и вот теперь множество разных людей пытаются помочь девочке.
Botchan
1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Gohei
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going to hold a memorial service for her father. Of course, the detective falls in love with his prey.
A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assigned to work under the section chief. Once he learns about the shady relationship, however, the new subordinate skillfully conceals the corruption and joins the corrupt, shady relationship.
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.
Niheita Inoda
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a university professor, collapsed. Michihara, a wealthy man and Miyashita, a youth scholar. Kanae is attracted to Miyashita, but ...
"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to Japan to visit her mother, but can't find her, so she starts performing at a cabaret in Yokohama. Her mother, already settled, found about Reika's whereabouts, but won't acknowledge her daughter for fear of loosing her current status.
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student at K University and was a figure player. They had a dream of being dispatched to Oslo in the Olympic Games and were struggling in each way. Mizuno who runs a sports equipment store in Ginza, showed the geisha by guiding the junior's Ikeuchi and others to the shop of Shimbashi one day.
Corporal Fukami
War film by Kon Ichikawa
Ikeda
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part-time at the spectacle of a tour, a haunted house Especially. The ghost was a struggle amongst the people, it was a great success in filling the crowd, but in the circus hut next to it, Kenji who was supposed to have disappeared was pitiful.
Nishida
Though recognized worldwide almost exclusively for his colorful kaiju fare, director Ishirō Honda (Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra) was a natural humanist with a particular understanding of the relationship between people and their social environs. His debut fiction feature, The Blue Pearl (Aoi Shinju) – virtually unseen in the west until now – depicts the melodramatic, but keenly-observed interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are portrayed as diametric opposites; the former meek but affectionate, the latter strong-willed but jaded by a tryst with metropolitan life. Nonetheless, Honda provides equal weight to their desires and their ambitions to break free from the social mold imposed upon them from birth.
A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.
A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
Seiichi Endo
A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his escape from the prison in order to seek her out and learn the truth, but the police give chase and he must flee into the mountains.
Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.
This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring Ryô Ikebe as a young policeman it is part crime drama, part social study. Definitely not an undiscovered masterpiece, but still a must for Ichikawa buffs.
Goichi Murashima
A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Meiichi Mizushima
Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda
Kawasaki
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Три ироничные и трогательные истории о первой любви. Она приходит так неожиданно, и наполняет юные души нежностью, чистотой и безумством. Известный писатель Исинака-сэнсэй наблюдает за поступками молодых с высоты своего возраста и жизненного опыта. В их годы он тоже натворил немало глупостей.
Mikami
Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love with a prostitute named Harumi, she convinces him to desert the army and live with her. Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi with a screenplay by Taniguchi and Akira Kurosawa and assistant direction by Ishiro Honda. Kurosawa's final credit as a screenwriter was removed from initial release due to various rewrites.
Rokusuke Kaneya
В послевоенной Японии устаревшие традиции сменяются новыми демократическими идеями. Молодая учительница Симадзаки пытается привить своим ученицам уважительное отношение к любви и браку. Врач Нумата прилагает большие усилия, чтобы помочь ей, но он не бескорыстен, он по уши влюблен в Симадзаки. Старшекласница Синко Тэрадзава и юноша Рокускэ Канэя оказываются в центре конфликта. В городе начинается отчаянная борьба нового со старым.
Rokusuke Kaneya
В послевоенной Японии устаревшие традиции сменяются новыми демократическими идеями. Молодая учительница Симадзаки пытается привить своим ученицам уважительное отношение к любви и браку. Врач Нумата прилагает большие усилия, чтобы помочь ей, но он не бескорыстен, он по уши влюблен в Симадзаки. Старшекласница Синко Тэрадзава и юноша Рокускэ Канэя оказываются в центре конфликта. В городе начинается отчаянная борьба нового со старым.
Shigeya Moriguchi, a newspaper reporter
Japanese mystery thriller.
Nobuo
Japanese noir.
Segawa
Учитель Сэгава вынужден, следуя завету отца, скрывать своё низкое происхождение ради возможности занять достойное положение в обществе.
Киноальманах из четырёх новелл о любовных историях в постановке известных режиссёров с участием больших звёзд послевоенного японского кинематографа.
Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japanese engineers also move to China, with their families, for the company in order to construct a canal. There are young Chinese resisting the Japanese in this area.
Tsutomu
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942.
