Movies

A rigidly devoted young servant lives in a decaying aristocratic household as its members drift toward modernity, hedonism, and financial collapse....

Two university students from Kyoto decide to swap partners and spend the night in an isolated motel. However, one of the couples is attacked....

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its effects on various civilians, especially...

The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir. Kozaburo Yoshimura), is a little girl who...

The second film in Toho's series on the military history of the Showa era, Hiromichi Horikawa's war drama offers a look at the career of...

Akio Jissoji's Ultraman is a 1979 Japanese tokusatsu kaiju film directed by Akio Jissoji. It is a compilation film made up of scenes from Jissoji's...

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers'...

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.

Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover’s suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa. Growing afraid at the last...

Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.