Veteran filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, who was 86 at the time of making this film, tackles the graying of Japan's population. The...
|
|
1999
|
Juzo Itami's Minbo no Onna -- a virtual textbook on how to beat yakuza harassment -- was a big hit and almost got its...
|
|
1995
|
The island of Hokkaido, in Japan, is located near the Arctic Circle and is famous for its cold, snowy winters. In this...
|
Captain,Headmaster
|
1992
|
Most famous in Japan and in the West for his long-running Otoko Wa Tsurai yo series which totaled a record breaking 48...
|
Akio Asano
|
1991
|
Acclaimed director and headmaster of the Sogestsu school of flower arranging Hiroshi Teshigahara helms this elegant...
|
Sen-no Rikyu
|
1990
|
This comedy satire is the sequel to the third biggest box office draw in Japan during the 1987 season. Ryoko (Nobuko...
|
|
1989
|
This erotic and violent story taken from Emily Bronte's classic novel takes place in medieval Japan instead of 19th-century...
|
|
1989
|
In this good-natured comedy, Densuke (Toshiyuki Nishidin), the clerk to a Japanese construction company living in southern...
|
Suzuki
|
1989
|
In this elegance drama, a fourteen-year-old boy is taken aside by his father for a heart-to-heart chat about the older man's...
|
Shigetatsu
|
1987
|
In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered...
|
Book Author
|
1987
|
|
|
|
1986
|
In a wholly serious, somber argument for euthanasia, director Yoshishige Yoshida focuses on a family with an aged and...
|
Grandfather
|
1986
|
"Go" is a complex, brain-racking "game" of military strategy, somewhat resembling chess. Chinese Sun Dao-Lin is sent to Japan...
|
Rinsaku Matsunami
|
1982
|
A gut-wrenching, violent psychological crime drama from start to finish, this award-winning film by noted Japanese director...
|
Shizuo Enokizu
|
1979
|
The story of a young woman in the early 1900s who is abused and living in poverty while being overworked in a silk mill in...
|
|
1979
|
|
|
Kinzo Otuka
|
1979
|
Ajisawa (Ken Takakura) is a mysterious warrior in a secret Japanese paramilitary group who, while on a training exercise in...
|
Oba
|
1978
|
Set in 1901, this movie depicts the fate of two military training companies sent on war exercises to Mount Hakkoda in the...
|
|
1977
|
Gen is a Japanese pacifist, who teaches his children to treat Koreans as human beings, and not to take the fanaticism of the...
|
Father
|
1976
|
Using modern scientific biases to strip away the mystery behind ancient legends is an activity not confined to Europe or the...
|
|
1974
|
Filmmaker Kiju Yoshida (aka Yoshishige Yoshida) directed this study of one of Japan's most controversial figures of the 1920s...
|
|
1973
|
This black-and-white Japanese movie examines the tortured life and death of the militaristic writer Kitta, who wrote a book...
|
|
1973
|
This sad Japanese romantic melodrama tells the brief love story of a very alert young man and an extremely beautiful woman...
|
|
1972
|
The Japanese title of Band of Assassins was Shinsengumi, which pinpointed the assassins in question. The Shinshen was a...
|
|
1971
|
This film, based on a novel by Eiji Yoshikawa, details exploits in the life of the legendary swordsman Musashi Miyamoto....
|
|
1971
|
In this adventure, set in Japan, a Shogun warrior sets off to save the daughter of a Russian count. She is being held...
|
|
1970
|
In this film, director Shohei Imamura collides traditional Japanese myth with Japan's current modernized incarnation. The...
|
Brother
|
1968
|
Shintaro Katsu once again plays the blind swordsman Ichi in this continuing series. The hero comes to the aid of peasants in...
|
|
1967
|
A young man returns to the island where he was held prisoner as a child in this action thriller from Japanese director...
|
|
1966
|
Kwaidan is an impressively mounted anthology horror film based on four stories by Lafcadio Hearn, a Greek-born writer who...
|
Samurai
|
1964
|
This well-regarded Japanese drama follows an aging samurai as he attempts to regain his family's honor. In 17th century...
|
Kageyu Saito
|
1963
|
In this fascinating Japanese social drama, a school teacher tries to hide the fact that he belongs to the outcast class....
|
|
1962
|
|
|
|
1961
|
Tadashi Imai's Yoru no Tsuzani was released in English-speaking countries as The Adulteress Set in 18th century Japan, the...
|
|
1958
|
Set against the final days of World War II, The Burmese Harp portrays the experiences of a group of exhausted, war-scarred...
|
Capt. Inouye
|
1956
|
Musashi Miyamoto was the first entry in Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Ingaki's Samurai trilogy. Toshiro Mifune is Takezo, a...
|
Matahachi
|
1955
|
|
|
|
1954
|
|
|
|
1953
|
|
|
|
1953
|
|
|
|
1953
|
|
|
|
1951
|
|
|
|
1951
|
|
|
|
1951
|