Princess From the Moon (Taketori Monogatari) is based on an ancient Japanese legend. Toshiro Mifune plays a 9th century...
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Tayoshime
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1987
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1971
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In Zatoichi vs. Yojimbo, one of many Japanese samurai films starring the blind swordsman Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu), he has to...
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1970
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This drama is based on Kawabata's Nobel Prize-winning autobiographical novel about the two loves of his father and about the...
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1969
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In this Japanese drama, a housewife falls in love with a female model and embarks upon a lesbian relationship. When she must...
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1968
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1967
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1967
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1966
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Exploring many of the same themes of Robert Altman's MASH (1970), (albeit with completely distinct overtones), Akai Tenshi is...
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Sakura Nishi
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1966
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A jealous doctor and his philandering wife mourn the death of their little girl when she is murdered in this drama taken...
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1966
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In this Japanese historical epic, set 230 B.C. China, a tyrannical conqueror tries to bring all of China's warring tribes...
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Chiangnu
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1965
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Based on a novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this tongue-in-cheek melodrama by Japanese director Yasuzo Masumura tells the story...
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Mitsuko
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1964
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Namiji
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1963
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Intrepid ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizo Ichikawa) escapes a gruesome fate and sets out to seek vengeance on the warlord who...
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1963
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The intrigue inside the usual overcrowded apartment of an atypical Japanese family recalls the court intrigues of the...
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Sachie
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1962
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Nise Daigakusei is an odd, straightforward youth drama by Yasuzo Masamura, set in a Japanese university which is home to a...
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Otsu
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1961
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Although shown at Japan House in 1981, Bonchi was first released in Japan in 1960 as an attack, with and without humor, on...
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1960
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1960
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This 1959 Ozu production centers on the likable but fallible leader of an itinerant acting troupe ("floating weeds" being the...
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1959
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1959
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A timeless tale of honor and revenge, The Loyal 47 Ronin tells the true story of a loyal group of samurai who plot revenge...
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1958
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The setting for this love story is a decade or so before Commodore Perry "opened-up" Japan in 1868, so the conservative...
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1957
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Based on a popular "sun tribe" novel, Punishment Room hues close to the genre's traits in depicting the violent and sexually...
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1956
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The Phantom Horse travelled under the title Mabaroshi Nouma when it was first released in Japan. The protagonist is a young...
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1956
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Kenji Mizoguchi's final film was on one of his favorite subjects: prostitutes. After a spate of universally lauded period...
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1956
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1956
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1953
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