Movies

A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.

First part of the famous Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy, based on Kaizan Nakazato’s unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to...

A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks...

Movie directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

An Ishiro Honda film.

A trio of teenage tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get into deep trouble.

The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.

In feudal Japan, gangsters chase a young girl who might testify against their boss. When the gangsters murder the girl's grandfather on sacred...

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...

Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the...

Former students of the notorious Harenchi Gakuen college open a new school for dissident youths after their former school is ruined by disputes.