
Known for
6.0Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon that killed the original, authorities attempt to lure Godzilla away from the mainland. But Anguirus soon arrives and the two monsters make their way towards Osaka as Japan braces for tragedy.
Godzilla Raids Again
1955
7.2Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.
Mothra
1961
7.1After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
Chûshingura
1962
7.7A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
Floating Clouds
1955
6.8A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
The Last War
1961
6.9A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Husband and Wife
1953
Film credits
1990s · 1 titles
1960s · 26 titles
7.2Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.
Mothra
1961
7.1After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
Chûshingura
1962
6.8A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
The Last War
1961
7.1A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
A Woman's Life
1963
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Oshichi's Vegetable Store: The No.1 Girl at the Edo Festival
1960
NRA beer salesman with a passion for fishmongering stumbles through mishaps, rivalries, and gangster trouble while chasing a big contract, winning the deal through quick thinking—then turns down a promotion to keep working his own way.
Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success
1960
7.0Japanese drama.
Mount Hakone
1962
7.2Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
The Wiser Age
1962
8.0Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru. The two meet again and fall in love in Hokkaido when Wang and her best friend Sugimoto Kanako are going on a holiday. Urged by her friend Zhang Yingming to concentrate on her studies, Wang remains ambivalent about the relationship, and is even more upset to realise that Sugimoto is in love with her fellow countryman. Feigning an engagement with Zhang, Wang initiates a break-up with Hasegawa and finds work in Singapore after graduation. Hasegawa learns the real cause of the break-up from Sugimoto in Hong Kong. A frenzy search finally leads to a reunion and a proposal in Kuala Lumpur. However, their love is doomed by a twist of fate as Wang must leave to see her desperately ill father in Hong Kong while Hasegawa has to leave for America to pursue his career.
Star of Hong Kong
1962
7.0A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery store, and works a local inn. The boy befriends a girl, the daughter of the innkeeper.
The Approach of Autumn
1960
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Thief on the Run
1964
9.0Ayako Kurimura, a new B.G. at Nitto Electric, becomes the object of affection for both her brother's colleague Kazuo Fukami and the flirtatious executive’s son, Hiroshi Tsuzawa. As office romances and corporate ambitions collide, relationships shift: heartbreak leads to new connections, old flames reemerge, and Hiroshi is ultimately disowned. Ayako helps him reunite with former lover Yoko, sending them off to Osaka while those around her find new beginnings.
B.G Story: Designs of a 20 Year-Old
1961
8.0After a promotion brings new professional challenges, a diligent employee is pulled into corporate matchmaking and a high-stakes business conflict over a critical eel supply.
Playboy President: Part II
1961
7.0In 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 unemployment later in life causes friction among the siblings of the Akagi family. Kensuke, a salaryman at a top company, refuses to support his parents while his brother, Shoji, determines to care for them despite only working as a taxi driver. The concern over money affects Noriko's own love life as she courts a wealthy salaryman to the chagrin of her mechanic boyfriend.
Different Sons
1961
NRTwo young women start their first jobs at a construction firm.
Salarygirl Story: Saucy Staff
1960
8.0Iwato Construction secures a major project in Hokkaido and promotes a key employee, but chaos follows—personal conflicts, missed deals, and a lost hotel contract. Redemption comes when they restore a fire-damaged department store, earning overdue payment and a morale boost.
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
1965
8.0A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressure from all sides. During a company trip to Beppu, personal entanglements and old company secrets surface, forcing difficult choices and quiet compromises.
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
1960
8.0Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to support a young woman’s relationship with an academic over a business heir.
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
1960
NRA drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
1960
8.0Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.
Hidden Fangs
1961
NRThe fourth instalment in the Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei series.
Salaryman Sampei Meijiro: Sighing Husband
1960
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sequel Western King, Eastern Leader
1965
NR1961 Japanese movie
Zoku sararīman yajikita dōchū
1961
8.0When noble wanderer Moritaro saves a disowned merchant’s son from gangsters, he becomes entangled in a town’s struggle against corruption. Teaming up with a rogue monk, bold tea-picking girls, and even a reformed thug, he battles a violent crime boss exploiting local families. Amid betrayals and brawls, justice and solidarity triumph.
Hiroshi Moriya Sadogasa: Thank You, Sandogasa
1961
9.0A wandering swordsman helps a doll maker and his fiancée fight against a ruthless gang in a small town. As tensions escalate, epic duels and betrayals lead to a final showdown that shifts the balance of power. The swordsman departs, leaving a lasting impact on those he helped.
Hiroshi Moriya Sandogasa: I Want to Weep
1961
NRA young salesman wins over a rival ink company while falling for the president’s daughter. Drawn into kendo rivalries and pressured to lose, he chooses integrity—earning both success and love.
The Tenth Game of New Salarymen
1961
1950s · 33 titles
6.0Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon that killed the original, authorities attempt to lure Godzilla away from the mainland. But Anguirus soon arrives and the two monsters make their way towards Osaka as Japan braces for tragedy.
Godzilla Raids Again
1955
7.7A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
Floating Clouds
1955
6.9A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Husband and Wife
1953
7.7A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
Summer Clouds
1958
6.7Fumiko and Ryōtarō Namiki's marriage has gone stale, with both constantly arguing over what to do on a day off, or about her cutting out recipes from the newspaper before he finishes reading it. Their animosities are witnessed by Fumiko's niece Ayako, who visits to complain about her own husband's inattentiveness, and their new neighbours, the Imasatos.
Sudden Rain
1956
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Three 'Black Crow' Wives
1959
6.5In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them.
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sanpei Mejiro Story: My Wife
1957
8.0Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.
Tokyo Sweetheart
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Big Edo's 1,000 Ryo Festival
1958
10.0Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
All About Marriage
1958
Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)
1956
NRAn Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
1957
9.0An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
First Love Story
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Comical Detective Story: Hatchan's First Adventure
1955
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Bride Is Waiting
1957
10.0Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student at K University and was a figure player. They had a dream of being dispatched to Oslo in the Olympic Games and were struggling in each way. Mizuno who runs a sports equipment store in Ginza, showed the geisha by guiding the junior's Ikeuchi and others to the shop of Shimbashi one day.
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
1951
6.3A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who has killed the man who was Okuni’s husband and Gohei’s master, and they cannot return to their lord’s home until they have fulfilled their duty of hunting down and killing Tomonojo.
Okuni and Gohei
1952
10.0The fifth entry in the Company President Series
The Third President
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sisters at the Hot Springs
1956
10.0Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
Adolescence
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A Young Lady on Her Way
1956
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Jacks and Jills
1956
7.0Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with the daughter of a wealthy trading company president.
The Terrible Game
1959
7.5An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
Sazae-san
1956
8.0Sankichi Matsutani, a poor young fisherman, falls in love with Kikue, the only daughter of fisher Shiimbei. As the star-crossed lovers come from different religious backgrounds, they soon meet fierce opposition from their communities.
Love on Rainbow Island
1956
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Happy and the Shy Draw
1954
NRWhen a corrupt executive takes over his struggling company and violates his girlfriend, a young salaryman declares war, leaving his job to expose the truth by any means necessary.
Vagabond Employee: Outcry
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Runaway Bride
1956
10.0An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
Sazae-san Sequel
1957
9.0No synopsis available yet.
People of Tokyo, Goodbye
1956
8.0Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
Forty-Eight Man
1952

