Movies

A young detective tries to determine whether a mysterious death was the result of murder or self-defense.

Based on the novel of the same name by Shoji Yuki

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Period romantic drama.

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....

The life of a urban planning official and that of an old fellow student, now project developer, are turned upside down by a chance encounter with a...

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees...

After the son of a wealthy man is kidnapped, a tenacious young reporter decides to find the culprit.

An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the Taishō era. About 15 families who moved in...

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert.

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

The son of a gang leader boss is kidnapped by someone and demands the disbandment of the gang. A group of five mean high school girls who form a...

1961 Japanese movie