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NRNo synopsis available yet.
Lost in the Sun
1961
7.0Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
1957
6.3Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub. When Murakami’s daughter befriends the mistress, the affair throws the family into turmoil.
The Balloon
1956
NRThe story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took responsibility for the accident and went ashore from the ship, and a young docker, whom he loves like a younger brother.
Wharf Temperament
1961
NR1962 Japanese movie
Wakai futari
1962
3.5Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base for drug smuggling.
The Drifter from the Sea
1960
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1970s · 2 titles
9.0Former students of the notorious Harenchi Gakuen college open a new school for dissident youths after their former school is ruined by disputes.
New Shameless School
1971
NRA human drama in which Hajime Hana plays an old-fashioned craftsman and conveys the richness of his heart. After losing his only son, Uncle Matsu, a craftsman, gathers neighborhood children and teaches them how to make crafts. What the boys learned from him who showed his living study himself.
Subarashii matsu ojisan
1973
1960s · 32 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Lost in the Sun
1961
NRThe story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took responsibility for the accident and went ashore from the ship, and a young docker, whom he loves like a younger brother.
Wharf Temperament
1961
NR1962 Japanese movie
Wakai futari
1962
3.5Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base for drug smuggling.
The Drifter from the Sea
1960
9.0The film depicts the life of a high school student today, touching on issues of purity, sports, higher education, and employment, through the pursuit of love and sex between a high school senior soccer player and a female student in the same class.
Confession of a girl: Purity
1968
7.0A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
NRThis movie depicts the confrontation between a man entangled in a despicable trap and the shadow of murderous intent, and the efforts of a journalist chasing after the truth. Due to the passage of time since the film's release, some scenes may be marred by visual and audio distortions. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.
午前零時の出獄
1963
6.2A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
Take Aim at the Police Van
1960
NR1962 Japanese movie
Kidō sōsahan Minato no ryakudatsu-sha
1962
8.0The love story of an aspiring architect and a charcoal-making daughter, who discover that they are actually brother and sister.
Eternal Love
1968
NR1962 Japanese movie
Aniki
1962
NROne summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...
The Gambling Monk
1963
NRThis is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.
Itsudemo yume o
1963
7.0Shimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to his former house to get a camellia blooming from the garden, he sees a beautiful schoolgirl who lives there. After they coincidentally meet again they fall for each other, but she is already engaged.
Lost Love
1967
NRA young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings out of the bank and offers them to him to make a new start. He refuses at first but eventually agrees and so she goes back to school to tell her teacher that she has decided not to continue college, that she is young and strong, and can make her own way in life.
The Start of Life
1965
NRIn 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 the eye can see. People treated him with respect. But even the richest must think about the future. One day, he decides to arrange a marriage between his only son, Junkichi and the daughter of an even more powerful family. Sobei, hoping to benefit from this union, soon discovers that his son was in love with a lower class girl.
No Greater Love
1966
NRHeartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.
The Song of Love
1965
NR1962 Japanese movie
君恋し
1962
NRA deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is pretty high up in the food chain, but "status" bears no value to him. All he cares for is Ayako, the boss' mistress. After one last job, they intend to run off together to Hong Kong, but their plans are hindered when an uninvited yakuza stirs up a vicious shootout. In the midst of it all, Ayako is kidnapped.
Love Eternal
1966
NRLittle dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and warmth of mother's hands. It seemed that joy settled in their house again. But one day a storm caught the fishermen at sea. Father did not return... Father's friends, fishermen, tried to help the widow, who was left with two children. But the money was still not enough. And then Kazuo decided to become a fisherman. After all, he was now the eldest in the family...
Wind and waves of the South
1961
NRA life insurance agent has a drinking problem causing him to lose his company a fortune. He heads to another town to sell insurance, but to his surprise, the elderly are all healthy thanks to a special local sake. Along the way, he meets an eye-patch-wearing killer, which only confounds his misadventures.
Cat Changed Into Tiger
1962
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Rookie Detective
1964
7.0Kunio Shimizu, a sailor of Tohto University, helped a girl that was chased by someone on her way home from practice.The girl went away without saying anything, leaving her wallet with Kunio. A few days later, she visited Kunio. She was working at a toy factory called Tomoko Nishizawa. Kunio naturally became attracted to Tomoko, but for some reason Tomoko refused to talk about her past. One day, the two went to the bowling alley and were approached by Tempira...
Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
1964
NRIn the third movie of the Gambler series, the Wandering Gambler is defeated by a cheat that he cannot expose and his dice hand is crushed. Now the gamblers pursue each other into Nagano in winter, with a detective hot on their trail.
Traveling Alone with a Guitar
1964
NRJoe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and her brutal yakuza pimp (George Ai).
Glass-Hearted Johnny
1962
NROne of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.
Hana to musume to shiroi michi
1961
6.8Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal builds around his girlfriend’s business...
Tokyo Mighty Guy
1960
NRTwo friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic hours, they vie for the affections of a hotel owner's daughter but wind up with separate girl friends and attempt to bring together the parents of a baby who have separated.
Welcome, My Baby
1964
NR1962 Japanese movie
Shashō monogatari tabi wa michidzure
1962
NRA nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of waves with her outspoken personality and behavior in this charming coming-of-age blockbuster.
Kaze to Ki to Sora to
1964
10.0No synopsis available yet.
The Will to Live
1967
NRA moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.
Your Life
1966
1950s · 15 titles
7.0Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
1957
6.3Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub. When Murakami’s daughter befriends the mistress, the affair throws the family into turmoil.
The Balloon
1956
8.0Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to being regarded as an outcast, the heroine sets about to spiritually legitimize the girl.
The Baby Carriage
1956
NRThe "Ginza Whirlwind" (Akira Kobayashi) uncovers a diamond smuggling operation led by a Chinese man behind the opening of the new nightclub "Monaco", and teams up with the daughter (Ruriko Asaoka) of a man the smuggler killed during the war. First in the "Ginza Whirlwind" series.
The Human Cyclone
1959
4.4Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt to perfect his crime, he drives to a remote quarry to bury his wife’s body, but along the way, he finds another dead body in the back of his car! Given no choice, Ise dumps both bodies. Meanwhile, Yoshie begins her search for her missing brother, Yoshihiko. After surprising twists and turns, Ise faces his fate.
Crossroad
1956
NR1958 Newspaper Association Sweepstakes Winning Broadcast Drama Movie. A heartwarming and moving story that bloomed behind the competition between two newspaper reporters, one young and the other old, who followed the whereabouts of the distressed aircraft. It is an adaptation of the prize-winning broadcast drama recruited by the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Week in 1958. The original author was Tsuneyuki Mori.
JA750 Gōki Yukuefumei
1959
10.0Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives in the Burma Campaign, namely Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi, promised to meet again five years later at the platform of Tokyo Station. Meanwhile, Shinagawa Station's crowded with repatriates. Upon returning to their homeland, their lives have changed dramatically. Daizo works as a railway construction worker. Eiji has established himself as a boxer. Kenichiro's become a gangster. In 1955, the day of their reunion is approaching. Now it is a matter of whether the three will be able to meet each other at the platform of Tokyo Station, as they had agreed on back in 1950.
The Three Faces
1955
NRHey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received while trembling!! Set in a simple rural town's post office, this youthfully bright and humorous story depicts the intricacies of life experienced by a rookie young postal worker. Depicting the subtle intricacies of life experienced by a young protagonist in a simple post office setting. This bright and humorous story evokes a heartfelt sense of empathy.
Shiroi natsu
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Joshiryōsai
1957
Japanese drama film.
Such is Life
1955
6.6The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often than not spend their nights getting into brawls. In particular, it focuses upon Tatsuya, a sullen young man, who falls in love with Eiko, a proud upper-class girl.
Season of the Sun
1956
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Nun
1958
NRThe first postwar war movie depicting the tragedy of a special force that shook the world at the end of the Pacific War, with thrill and speed
Saigo no sentō-ki
1956
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Confession
1956
NRNo synopsis available yet.
美男お小姓 人斬り彦齋
1955
