Known for
6.5This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend about a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and power.
Ghost Story of Yotsuya
1959
8.5A store manager named Kinbei becomes enraged when the owners of the store decide to hand it down to an adopted son instead of him. He hatches a plot to murder them all, but as it turns out he has done this sort of thing before. As bodies pile up in the nearby Kagami Pond, a ghostly vengeance is about to be unleashed.
The Ghosts of Kagami Pond
1959
Pinku from 1969.
Harenchi jogakusei: Shojo urimasu
1969
6.5Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.
Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
1949
NRA novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is enjoyable, but she gradually notices that many of the students are skipping school. Visiting her students after class, she realizes that many of them are charged with work and tasks like making money, toiling on the farm, doing housework or tending to their younger siblings. Many of them live in unhygienic homes due to poverty or overwork. She not only reports and explains the situation to the school's principal, but also attempts to improve the conditions by making textbooks, teaching cleanliness, and making her classes relevant.
Young Teacher
1942
8.0In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the River Kitakami. At night, the villagers of Shirayama gather round a blazing fire, and utter incantations while an old headman tempers a sword...
The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin
1959
Film credits
1980s · 2 titles
NRA mysterious swordsman called Hatokuro Yawata (Ken Matsudaira) who appeared from somewhere with white pigeons is actually Naotada Ii, the lord of Hikone Han. He was told that he had an older brother of twin by his mother on her deathbed. Hatokuro pretended to be a citizen in Edo and searched for his brother. However, in Edo, Murasaki Gumi, led by the mysterious Murasaki had power and used it as they like. One day, Hatokuro saved Okyu whose office-worker father was killed from Sanjuro Akaseki of Murasakigumi. It brought about a fierce fight between Murasaki and Hatokuro. What is the identity of Murasaki!?
Samurai of Hachiman
1981
NRNatsuko is witnessed carrying on an affair with her boss, Misawa, by the unmarried Chieko. However, Chieko dies by falling and is found about ten days later in the shrubbery in front of the company. It is revealed that Chieko led a flashy private life and frequented a host club. Moreover, it seems that she was having an affair with Division Chief Yamazaki.
オフィス妻のさけび
1985
1960s · 10 titles
Pinku from 1969.
Harenchi jogakusei: Shojo urimasu
1969
7.8The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women. A hired assassin is betrayed by his organization, and kidnaps a woman who happens to be the girlfriend of a newspaper reporter.
Yellow Line
1960
NRTwo pharmaceutical companies in Tokyo and Osaka engage in a fierce battle of wits over the sale of aphrodisiacs. Shigeru Amachi and Yumiko Nogawa, special sales agents known as "propers," operate in the shadows.
Black Curtain
1966
6.0After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a plot to overthrow the shogunate in order to exact revenge on the Tokugawa. At the same time there is a succession dispute in the Kuroda clan, as one faction tried to usurp the rightful heir and take over the honored clan. Before his untimely death, the lord of the Kuroda bestowed “Nihongo”, a magnificent spear, on his finest warrior, which ultimately brings him into contact with two of Japan’s most famous historical figures, Yagyu Jubei and Miyamoto Musashi. Can the three masters of martial art join forces to defeat their enemies and save the nation?
Decisive Battle at Kuroda Castle
1960
3.6Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang. Somewhere in the process they find themselves on the run from their own gang and one of them becomes himself romantically entangled with the boss's girlfriend. An ambitious underboss of the gang offers them a way out if they murder the previous boss but things don't turn out as planned (for everyone).
Fire Line
1961
10.0Romantic story and complications of a lingerie model.
New Resume of Love Affairs
1967
Pink film directed by Kinya Ogawa.
Kôshoku mansion-shitsu
1968
NRKazuko Matsuo sings the theme song to this drama film.
東京の夜は泣いている
1961
4.8Caught up in the swirling tide of student protests and riots, a young man becomes the unintentional murderer of a policeman. Handcuffed and enroute to jail, he escapes from the authorities and comes across a young woman on the beach, who is intent on committing suicide. The two embark on a passionate and violent affair.
Naked Pursuit
1968
NRPinku from 1965.
Kawaii akujo: Konomama koroshite
1965
1950s · 20 titles
6.5This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend about a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and power.
Ghost Story of Yotsuya
1959
8.5A store manager named Kinbei becomes enraged when the owners of the store decide to hand it down to an adopted son instead of him. He hatches a plot to murder them all, but as it turns out he has done this sort of thing before. As bodies pile up in the nearby Kagami Pond, a ghostly vengeance is about to be unleashed.
The Ghosts of Kagami Pond
1959
8.0In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the River Kitakami. At night, the villagers of Shirayama gather round a blazing fire, and utter incantations while an old headman tempers a sword...
The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin
1959
6.6Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
Where Chimneys Are Seen
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
1958
7.0A 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for his immense contributions to Toho's Godzilla series by providing the screenplays/stories for the majority of the original Showa films.
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
1956
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Half Virgin
1953
6.9Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950
7.5Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death of his mother.
The Tale of Jiro
1955
NRNo synopsis available yet.
乾杯!女学生
1954
On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped Western-style outfit lying in his exam room. He must retrace his blurry steps of the night before, and navigate a web of embezzlement, murder, framings, and false identities in Tokyo's Ginza district, to discover the identity of the dead woman and why she is there—and hopefully prove his innocence, before his wedding in three days...
Golden Beast
1950
NRJidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura
Yasubei Nakayama
1951
NRObscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki
Riverside Fish Market Empire
1952
7.0The 4th Super Giant film, in which he continues his fight against the Kapia Aliens (Part 2 of 2)
Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction
1957
NRJapanese comedy film.
Onna daigaku yakyūkyō jidai
1956
6.5The 3rd Super Giant film, in which he saves Earth from the threat of the reptile-like Kapia Aliens.
Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle
1957
NRJapanese comedy film.
日米花嫁花婿入替取替合戦
1957
1958 jidaigeki directed by Masaki Mori for Shintoho.
関八州喧嘩陣
1958
NRThe film depicts a psychological battle involving suspense and romance between the protagonist, who feigns mental illness to avoid being declared a war criminal, and a female military doctor from the Soviet military's political department who interrogates him.
Escape from the Soviet Union: Female Military Doctor and Fake Madman
1958
Japanese comedy film.
ノイローゼ兄さんガッチリ娘
1956
1940s · 4 titles
6.5Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.
Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
1949
NRA novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is enjoyable, but she gradually notices that many of the students are skipping school. Visiting her students after class, she realizes that many of them are charged with work and tasks like making money, toiling on the farm, doing housework or tending to their younger siblings. Many of them live in unhygienic homes due to poverty or overwork. She not only reports and explains the situation to the school's principal, but also attempts to improve the conditions by making textbooks, teaching cleanliness, and making her classes relevant.
Young Teacher
1942
6.4This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.
Travelling Actors
1940
10.0A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute" for young girls in the countryside. There the residents grow their own food, cook and clean for themselves, and are taught language, music, and sewing. While there the young girl slowly begins to form friendships and come out of her shell.
World of Love
1943
