Takashi Shimura
Ezaguna: Acting
Urtebetetzea: 1905-03-12
Jaioterria: Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan
Ezaguna ere: Shoji Shimazaki, 島崎捷爾, 志村乔
Rashomon
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of...
Askatu : 1950.08.26Ospea : 24.941
The Hidden Fortress
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who...
Askatu : 1958.12.28Ospea : 16.801
Godzilla
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far...
Askatu : 1954.11.03Ospea : 28.751
Godzilla Raids Again
Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon...
Askatu : 1955.04.24Ospea : 22.067
Frankenstein Conquers the World
During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in...
Askatu : 1965.08.08Ospea : 11.202
Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...
Askatu : 1965.04.03Ospea : 12.894
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...
Askatu : 1952.10.09Ospea : 21.405
Throne of Blood
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the...
Askatu : 1957.01.15Ospea : 19.054
Stray Dog
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...
Askatu : 1949.10.17Ospea : 13.831
I Live in Fear
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...
Askatu : 1955.11.22Ospea : 8.03
Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...
Askatu : 1965.01.06Ospea : 15.455
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....
Askatu : 1956.01.03Ospea : 16.361
Sanjuro
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...
Askatu : 1962.01.01Ospea : 20.349
The Bad Sleep Well
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...
Askatu : 1960.09.15Ospea : 11.581
Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...
Askatu : 1961.04.25Ospea : 18.82
The Idiot
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love...
Askatu : 1951.05.23Ospea : 13.41
Kagemusha
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...
Askatu : 1980.04.26Ospea : 22.753
Drunken Angel
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to...
Askatu : 1948.04.27Ospea : 14.313
Scandal
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
Askatu : 1950.04.26Ospea : 11.944
High and Low
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his servants son is kidnapped
Askatu : 1963.03.01Ospea : 20.365
Sanshiro Sugata
The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new...
Askatu : 1943.03.25Ospea : 13.085
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to...
Askatu : 1952.04.24Ospea : 9.083
The Mysterians
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to...
Askatu : 1957.12.28Ospea : 7.045
No Regrets for Our Youth
Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...
Askatu : 1946.10.29Ospea : 11.75
The Quiet Duel
A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a...
Askatu : 1949.03.19Ospea : 9.49
Osaka Elegy
Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss so she can pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.
Askatu : 1936.05.28Ospea : 9.307
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.
Askatu : 1964.12.20Ospea : 19.568
47 Ronin
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...
Askatu : 1962.11.03Ospea : 9.768
Afraid to Die
On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...
Askatu : 1960.03.22Ospea : 5.229
Mothra
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population...
Askatu : 1961.07.30Ospea : 14.023
Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...
Askatu : 1967.08.12Ospea : 7.802
The Most Beautiful
The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and...
Askatu : 1944.04.13Ospea : 19.121
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric...
Askatu : 1956.04.27Ospea : 24.722
Vanquished Foes
A skilled assassin's services are called upon to put an end to the ugly turf battle between two yakuza families, Mitsuwa and Aikawa. Forced by the...
Askatu : 1964.01.09Ospea : 1.963
Attack Squadron
Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain...
Askatu : 1963.01.03Ospea : 4.506
Zatoichi and the Fugitives
Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
Askatu : 1968.08.10Ospea : 4.747
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same...
Askatu : 1973.04.21Ospea : 5.18
Samurai Assassin
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of...
Askatu : 1965.01.03Ospea : 8.238
Vendetta of a Samurai
The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa...
Askatu : 1952.01.03Ospea : 9.037
Snow Trail
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and...
Askatu : 1947.08.05Ospea : 4.903
Akanishi Kakita
A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.
Askatu : 1936.06.18Ospea : 3.518
No Greater Love
In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as...
Askatu : 1966.09.17Ospea : 2.988
The Sands of Kurobe
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...
Askatu : 1968.03.01Ospea : 6.826
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
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...
Askatu : 1969.03.06Ospea : 3.271
A Whistle in My Heart
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.
Askatu : 1959.03.29Ospea : 6.99
The Three Treasures
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...
Askatu : 1959.11.01Ospea : 4.504
Tora-san's Love Call
Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
Askatu : 1971.12.29Ospea : 3.623
The Angry Street
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...
Askatu : 1950.05.14Ospea : 4.656
Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron
A 1944 propaganda film that depicts the fictionalised career of IJAAF pilot Tateo Kato, who led the 64th Sentai during the early months of the...
Askatu : 1944.03.09Ospea : 3.56
Evening Calm
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.
Askatu : 1957.04.01Ospea : 2.79
Samurai Pirate
An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the...
Askatu : 1963.10.26Ospea : 4.631
Jiraiya
Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.
Askatu : 1937.12.31Ospea : 1.211
The Skull Coin
“Dokuro sen” (The Skull Coin) is the first film adaptation of the popular novel by Kikuo Sumita. The story evolves around the seven...
Askatu : 1938.01.01Ospea : 2.726
Sanshiro Sugata
Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo....
Askatu : 1965.05.29Ospea : 5.232
Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments
As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above....
Askatu : 1971.02.25Ospea : 2.502
The Gambler's Code
One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of...
Askatu : 1961.06.14Ospea : 4.409
Talk of the Town Tora-san
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed...
Askatu : 1978.12.27Ospea : 3.488
Godzilla
A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956), plus WWII newsreel...
Askatu : 1977.01.01Ospea : 11.053
Love and Faith
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an...
Askatu : 1978.06.03Ospea : 2.865
Gorath
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is...
Askatu : 1962.03.21Ospea : 8.158
It's Tough Being a Man
Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura....
Askatu : 1969.08.27Ospea : 7.32
Spring Awakens
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
Askatu : 1947.11.02Ospea : 4.067
The Storm of the Pacific
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in...
Askatu : 1960.04.26Ospea : 4.885
Seven from Edo
When Katsukawa, a low ranking vassal, learns that his greedy superior, Tatewaki, has hatched a plan to expand his territory, he and his comrades...
Askatu : 1958.04.30Ospea : 3.58
The Whale God
A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.
Askatu : 1962.07.15Ospea : 2.94
The Day the Sun Rose
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...
Askatu : 1968.11.23Ospea : 3.627
Three Yakuza
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each...
Askatu : 1965.05.22Ospea : 4.985
Eagle of the Pacific
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...
Askatu : 1953.10.21Ospea : 4.254
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an...
Askatu : 1959.12.06Ospea : 3.432
Human Torpedoes
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
Askatu : 1968.01.03Ospea : 2.35
The Revolt
When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col....
Askatu : 1980.01.15Ospea : 6.122
The Way of Drama
The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical...
Askatu : 1944.05.11Ospea : 2.822
Daredevil in the Castle
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...
Askatu : 1961.01.03Ospea : 4.958
Saga of the Vagabonds
Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting...
Askatu : 1959.08.09Ospea : 2.699
Singing Lovebirds
An umbrella maker with a shopping addiction finds himself in dire straits when his debts force him to consider selling his attractive, desirable...
Askatu : 1939.12.14Ospea : 3.437
No Time for Tears
Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic...
Askatu : 1955.05.10Ospea : 4.11
Points and Lines
Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the...
Askatu : 1958.11.11Ospea : 3.678
Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders...
Askatu : 1958.10.01Ospea : 3.58
The Lovelorn Geisha
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...
Askatu : 1960.07.12Ospea : 2.455
The Eleventh Hour
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...
Askatu : 1957.11.24Ospea : 4.05
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...
Askatu : 1958.04.01Ospea : 3.672
The Life of a Horse Trader
The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...
Askatu : 1951.12.07Ospea : 2.383
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the post-war period in Japan.
Askatu : 1968.12.28Ospea : 2.382
Street of Violence
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Askatu : 1950.02.26Ospea : 3.563
Patience Has An End
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.
Askatu : 1971.06.25Ospea : 3.238
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous...
Askatu : 1956.01.15Ospea : 3.803
The Last Embrace
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in...
Askatu : 1953.03.11Ospea : 2.612
Beauty and the Thief
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...
Askatu : 1952.09.22Ospea : 3.518
Foghorn
A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.
Askatu : 1952.03.03Ospea : 2.946
The Bride In Uguisu Castle
The life of three beautiful princesses in feudal Japan.
Askatu : 1958.06.22Ospea : 1.599
Three Women of the North
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...
Askatu : 1945.08.05Ospea : 3.107
Beyond Love and Hate
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...
Askatu : 1951.01.11Ospea : 1.785
Life of a Country Doctor
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...
Askatu : 1960.08.14Ospea : 1.856
Brand of Evil
A Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency to investigate his...
Askatu : 1964.05.29Ospea : 3.028
Hoodlum Match
A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.
Askatu : 1965.02.13Ospea : 3.154
Man Against Man
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...
Askatu : 1960.08.14Ospea : 2.854
The Underworld
Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue....
Askatu : 1956.02.26Ospea : 3.137
Zoku Shimizu Minato
An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.
Askatu : 1940.07.10Ospea : 3.562
The Protector
Mine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her father falls ill. Under a great deal of pressure to...
Askatu : 1966.04.13Ospea : 2.465
New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the...
Askatu : 1969.08.13Ospea : 2.538
Human Revolution II
Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.
Askatu : 1976.06.19Ospea : 2.384
The Chivalrous Life
Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against...
Askatu : 1967.05.30Ospea : 2.022
Last of the Wild Ones
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
Askatu : 1954.06.08Ospea : 2.92
Sword for Hire
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and...
Askatu : 1952.05.22Ospea : 3.573
The Retreat from Kiska
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an...
Askatu : 1965.07.04Ospea : 3.271
Blood and Diamonds
A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.
Askatu : 1964.07.01Ospea : 4.26
The Magoichi Saga
Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.
Askatu : 1969.09.13Ospea : 3.068
Snow in the South Seas
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
Askatu : 1961.09.29Ospea : 1.882
The Bullet Train
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police...
Askatu : 1975.07.05Ospea : 13.154
The Bride from Hades
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes...
Askatu : 1968.06.15Ospea : 4.287
King of the Gang
The 11th and final film in the Gang series. Most of the films had different directors and cast, and were only connected by the title and Toei's...
Askatu : 1967.08.25Ospea : 2.213
The Woman Champion
Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Askatu : 1968.07.01Ospea : 2.631
Woman Gambler and the Nun
Eighth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Askatu : 1968.10.30Ospea : 3.155
Those Who Make Tomorrow
Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in...
Askatu : 1946.05.02Ospea : 4.458
Stop the Old Fox
Historical and political detective. The main characters are drawn into court intrigues, and the investigation of corruption in the administration of...
Askatu : 1959.09.27Ospea : 2.492
Festival Across the Sea
There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, during a local festival, travelling artists and...
Askatu : 1941.05.04Ospea : 2.195
The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.
Askatu : 1974.06.01Ospea : 4.214
Industrial Spy
Kogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin Corporation, to learn the secrets of the design of a...
Askatu : 1968.05.21Ospea : 3.322
Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro
Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.
Askatu : 1965.09.18Ospea : 2.463
Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.
Askatu : 1966.05.30Ospea : 2.295
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru" (1952).
Askatu : 2002.10.25Ospea : 1.83
The Drifting Avenger
Ken, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from Japan. Soon his family is killed in front of him by stagecoach robbers, making...
Askatu : 1968.06.14Ospea : 4.011
The Blue Pearl
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...
Askatu : 1951.08.03Ospea : 1.857
Love Never Fails
Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the...
Askatu : 1955.04.01Ospea : 4.78
Structure of Hate
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.
Askatu : 1961.11.12Ospea : 2.312
Untamed Woman
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...
Askatu : 1957.05.28Ospea : 4.988
The Sword Knows
In the midst of the warring age, a young samurai Kyonosuke defies his former lord Hojo Ujikatsu in order to avenge his parents’ deaths.
Askatu : 1958.09.03Ospea : 2.454
The Skin of the South
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...
Askatu : 1952.02.28Ospea : 3.353
The Image of Mother
A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.
Askatu : 1963.12.24Ospea : 3.261
House of Gamblers
Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family...
Askatu : 1970.03.29Ospea : 3.271
Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.
Askatu : 1969.11.20Ospea : 2.566
A Yakuza Has His Way
The eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by the chairman of the Seiyu-kai for not having a family...
Askatu : 1972.07.03Ospea : 2.889
Challenge to Live
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during...
Askatu : 1961.06.17Ospea : 2.498
Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba
The tale of Nakayama Yasubei’s duel is famous, even if he in reality probably did not cut down 18 opponents. The story has been related in...
Askatu : 1937.12.31Ospea : 3.778
Red Peony of Night
A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...
Askatu : 1950.12.08Ospea : 3.585
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
Askatu : 1959.05.21Ospea : 6.244
Samurai Banners
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He...
Askatu : 1969.03.01Ospea : 6.219
The Bitch
The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.
Askatu : 1951.08.10Ospea : 4.102
Chushingura
The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and the public, wait for an opportunity to avenge...
Askatu : 1938.03.31Ospea : 2.909
Princess Sen in Edo
A gorgeous tragic love picture scroll depicting a beautiful woman who weeps over her strange fate and falters in her search for true love!
Askatu : 1960.01.14Ospea : 2.023
Young Tree
A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.
Askatu : 1956.01.22Ospea : 2.142
Good Luck to These Two
A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.
Askatu : 1957.02.19Ospea : 1.397
An Ocean to Cross
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...
Askatu : 1980.01.26Ospea : 4.227
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately,...
Askatu : 1974.07.13Ospea : 4.69
Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...
Askatu : 1954.04.26Ospea : 62.002
Ishimatsu of the Forest
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
Askatu : 1949.06.04Ospea : 2.887
Actress
Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...
Askatu : 1947.12.29Ospea : 3.041
Eleven High School Girls
With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt...
Askatu : 1946.08.21Ospea : 2.281
Lady From Hell
Three and a half years after Japan was bombed, the tax authorities organized the T-Men. Nango is in love with a girl called Mibu, and the two are...
Askatu : 1949.03.15Ospea : 3.672
Devil's Gold
1950 Toho film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Askatu : 1950.02.19Ospea : 2.785
君死に給うことなかれ
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...
Askatu : 1954.10.20Ospea : 2.309
Restoration Fire
Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale of Japan’s inner battles that led to the...
Askatu : 1961.10.14Ospea : 3.049
Code of Ruffians
Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the...
Askatu : 1965.12.04Ospea : 3.445
The Tattooed Hitman
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody...
Askatu : 1974.04.27Ospea : 5.488
Elegy
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his...
Askatu : 1951.02.22Ospea : 2.227
Lord for a Night
Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Askatu : 1946.07.11Ospea : 3.452
Last Days of Edo
It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.
Askatu : 1941.11.28Ospea : 3.106
Devoted Servant Naosuke
Naosuke, a servant of Okajima Yasoemon, devoted himself to his master. One day, his master Okajima Yasoemon, lost his face in front of people. It...
Askatu : 1939.12.07Ospea : 1.721
Escape Zone
Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a...
Askatu : 1953.03.19Ospea : 1.436
Spring Snow
The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...
Askatu : 1950.02.26Ospea : 2.178
Underworld series - Pardon My Violent Ways
Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completing his sentence, he immediately takes revenge on...
Askatu : 1967.01.14Ospea : 1.9
A Geisha on Horseback
Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the proud geisha Nobukichi Hakata in the...
Askatu : 1954.11.15Ospea : 2.327
To Love and Swear
After facing hard times, an orphan Korean boy gets adopted to Japanese society. He meets several Japanese people who are kind to him, and grows up...
Askatu : 1945.07.26Ospea : 1.762
Eight Views of Samurai
Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai...
Askatu : 1958.05.27Ospea : 3.725
The Lord Takes a Bride
Young Lord Gentaro (Otomo Ryutaro) takes a journey to Edo in search of his future wife. Easier said than done, evil forces lurk in Edo and Gentaro...
Askatu : 1957.04.02Ospea : 2.499
The Soundless Cry
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works...
Askatu : 1965.01.30Ospea : 4.248
Tokyo Crime Map
An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of Tokyo with the help of guns and violence.
Askatu : 1956.03.04Ospea : 4.445
The Sun is Calling You
A man with a dark past comes from Tokyo to the fishing port of Izu, and tries to begin a new life as a fisherman.
Askatu : 1963.09.29Ospea : 2.272
Master Fencer Sees the World
A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young...
Askatu : 1960.10.16Ospea : 3.274
Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.
Askatu : 1955.03.01Ospea : 2.755
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
A captivating operetta by Masahiro Makino based on Juppensha Ikku's humorous novel "Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige" starring Chiezo Kataoka and...
Askatu : 1938.12.01Ospea : 1.837
Kurama Tengu
This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bankrupt (many of these independent...
Askatu : 1938.03.15Ospea : 1.325
Taiko's Rising in the World
Taikoki is a legendary biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō. And the story of this film is about the rise to power...
Askatu : 1938.06.17Ospea : 3.24
Oda Nobunaga
A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and...
Askatu : 1940.02.05Ospea : 2.947
A Modern Yakuza: The Code of The Lawless
Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.
Askatu : 1969.02.01Ospea : 3.195
Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period. In other...
Askatu : 1963.06.30Ospea : 2.913
The Harbor of No Return
A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to...
Askatu : 1966.08.13Ospea : 2.578
The Traveling Ruffian
Adventures of Mori no Ishimatsu, a famous member of Jirocho gang. Ishimatsu is strong in righteousness weak to mercy, who falls in love at first...
Askatu : 1958.06.30Ospea : 2.311
Phantom Castle
Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.
Askatu : 1940.10.10Ospea : 1.541
Fifth Movement
When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first...
Askatu : 1981.09.19Ospea : 3.708
Sazae-san's Marriage
Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and...
Askatu : 1959.01.09Ospea : 1.747
Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a...
Askatu : 1957.03.14Ospea : 3.306
Different Sons
In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...
Askatu : 1961.11.12Ospea : 2.465
Dorei kōjō
After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.
Askatu : 1968.01.25Ospea : 3.068
浅草の夜
A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this...
Askatu : 1954.07.14Ospea : 2.276
Akagaki Genzo
Forty-seven Ronin of the Ako clan are waiting for the right moment to avenge the insult and death of their master. The film tells the story of one of...
Askatu : 1938.11.17Ospea : 2.572
Echo of Love
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...
Askatu : 1937.07.14Ospea : 2.375
Mother's First Love
A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.
Askatu : 1954.09.17Ospea : 2.908
Life of Hishakaku 3
Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.
Askatu : 1964.03.01Ospea : 2.345
The End of the Night
Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision...
Askatu : 1953.04.08Ospea : 2.888