Movies

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life -- presents...

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

Movie directed by Kunio Matoi

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.

[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to...

Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a...