A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender. Remake of Hiroshi Inagaki's Jigoku no mushi (1938).

Japanese sex comedy film.

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.

Japanese comedy film.

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.

A comedy based on the manga by Isao Kojima, written by Isao Matsuki (Kaidan Ama Ghost), and directed by Morihei Magaya (Gonin Musume). The photography was handled by Shigeyoshi Yoshida of "The Vampire Bride".

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".

This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.

Japanese comedy film.

A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to haunt the samurai, who kills his wife by mistake and then goes to the swamp and drowns himself. 20 years later, the masseur's daughter unknowingly falls in love with the samurai's son who has been brought up to be a servant. After she is horribly disfigured in an accident, he plots to run away with another woman, but the path of their escape lies by the Kasane swamp...

An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the Owari clan. Hibari Misora plays two roles: a charming princess and a dashing youngster, performs songs and dances throughout the film until the big decisive battle.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.

Japanese comedy film.

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famous ghost stories throughout Japan.

Japanese youth film about kendo.

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This heartfelt story concerns a wandering gambler from Banba by the name of Chutaro. Set during the Tenpo Period, Chutaro runs afoul of Boss Sukegoro of Iioka. Pursued by vengeance seeking swordsmen, Chutaro displays his phenomenal martial art skills. Abandoned as a child, he seeks to find his long lost mother, while at the same time fighting off numerous attacks by Iioka’s men.

Japanese comedy film.

1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan.

Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.

Japanese war film.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Japanese war drama.

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly writing Ogata's manuscript, he would buy dorayaki as a gratuity and devour it.

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Tanuma 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.

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their leader is.

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical styles like those used by amateur actors to dramatise contemporary events.

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

A 1942 film.

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.

The ambiguous relationship between a woman musician and her young student.

Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as the murderer and chaos ensues. Pre-war jidaigeki film.

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl. The student finds the naïve girl attractive even though he eventually has to part with the family after spending memorable time together.

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before.

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.

Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu.

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, and manages to amaze the blasé audience with a happy end in the Wild West.