Ken Takakura

Rentarô Mikuni

Renji Ishibashi

Sanae Nakahara

Wolves, Pigs and People

Wolves, Pigs and People (1964)

Erina Mano

Kôji Yakusho

Kirin Kiki

Based on an autobiographical novel by Inoue Yasushi, the film chronicles the passage of fifteen years within a family struggling with abandonment, resentment and decline with old age. As the world turns, a son who has issues with his mother has to deal with his own children and role as a father as well.—aghaemi

Chronicle of My Mother

Chronicle of My Mother (2011)

Shintarô Katsu

Hisaya Morishige

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead mother was bringing. Zatoichi determines to save the woman from her fate.—Jim Beaver

Zatoichi at Large

Zatoichi at Large (1972)

Kô Nishimura

Kenjirô Ishiyama

Zatoichi arrives in a town where a gambling house is kidnapping its poor, debt-ridden patrons. A rival establishment moves to pay those debts and free the peasants, but this house's seemingly altruistic boss is actually laying the groundwork for a ruthless money-grabbing scheme. The sixteenth Zatoichi film is the first from its star's own Katsu Productions, and is one of the series' most daring.—Anonymous

Zatoichi the Outlaw

Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967)

Jun Hamamura

Taiji Tonoyama

Tatsu Nakamura

The Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island to drill a well to provide water for the sugar mill. He is assisted on the island by Kametaro, from the inbred Futori family. Nekichi Futori is chained in a pit that he has to dig, in order to appease the gods for breaking island customs. Nekichi is in love with his sister Uma, who is a shaman priestess at the sacred shrine, that contains the only good water close to the mill. She is also the mistress of Ryu, the manager of the mill. The patriarch of the Futori family tries to get the engineer to marry his retarded daughter Toriko.—Will Gilbert

Profound Desires of the Gods

Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)

Rie Miyazawa

Tatsuya Nakadai

Kyôko Enami

Chronicles the trials and tribulations of Oribe, the successor to tea-master Rikyu, Usu, his gardener, and Princess Goh, who attempt to balance artistic expression and duty amid political intrigue in feudal Japan.

Gô-hime

Gô-hime (1992)

Haruo Suzuki

Hugh Hurd

The film is a relentlessly savage fable about a Japanese mountain village whose inhabitants accidentally capture a black American airman only a few weeks before the 1945 capitulation. The 'prisoner of war' acts as a catalyst, bringing out all the repressed aggression and latent political conflicts beneath the tradition-girded surface of the community.

The Catch

The Catch (1961)

Shima Iwashita

Masao Kusakari

A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk.

Himiko

Himiko (1974)

Yûko Tanaka

Yûsaku Matsuda

Masato Furuoya

A retelling of Emily Bronte's tale of vengeance and obsessive love, set in medieval Japan.

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights (1988)

Mitsuko Baishô

Ken Ogata

Mari Nishio

Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders. Eventually he is chased by the police all over Japan, but somehow he always manages to escape. He meets a woman who runs a brothel. They love each other but how long can they be together?—Mattias Thuresson

Vengeance Is Mine

Vengeance Is Mine (1979)

Junji Nishimura

Susumu Fujita

Three thieves escape from a heist, one of them killing the other two. He is sheltered by a prostitute and sought after by the police, but only after ten years his true motivation unravels.

A Fugitive from the Past

A Fugitive from the Past (1965)

Katsuo Nakamura

Tomo'o Nagai

Kinuyo Tanaka

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946.

Ibo kyoudai

Ibo kyoudai (1957)

Yoshio Inaba

Eitarô Ozawa

Ballad of the Cart

Ballad of the Cart (1959)

Kyôko Kishida

Seiji Miyaguchi

Ushimatsu (Rentarô Mikuni) is a member of the burakumin caste, a Japanese minority descended from the outcast communities of the feudal era. Discrimination against the burakumin has been officially outlawed, although it is still the de facto way of life in early 20th century Japan. Disguising his background, Ushimatsu is able to attend university and eventually become a schoolteacher himself, but after a friend is murdered, he must risk everything to seek justice.

The Outcast

The Outcast (1962)

Kei Satô

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman.

Punishment Island

Punishment Island (1966)

Akira Emoto

Minori Terada

Yuki Kazamatsuri

A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father's Yakuza clan.

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)

Yôko Shimada

Legendary Japanese director Ichikawa Kons 1976 film The Inugami Family, holds a very special place in Japans long tradition of supernatural suspense. Based on Yokomizo Seishis epic work, the slow-burning family murder mystery is a highly influential title in the directors celebrated filmography and just about required viewing for Japanese cinema fans. When tycoon Inugami Sahei passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marry one of the Inugami grandsons - Sukekiyo, Suketake, or Suketomo - pitting blood against blood. Soon afterwards, members of the family begin to show up dead, one by one. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke is called in to investigate the murders, and the truth is slowly revealed as he happens upon years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret.

The Inugami Family

The Inugami Family (1976)

Toshirô Mifune

Takashi Shimura

Fuyuki Murakami

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but overruled, leads his forces to the best of his ability.—Jim Beaver

Taiheiyô no washi

Taiheiyô no washi (1953)

Shidô Nakamura

Akira Kubo

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan's most powerful warlord, unifying the country. Rikyu, through the tea ceremony and floral arrangements, tempers his lord, helping Hideyoshi focus on a single flower or be in a simple room where the shape of a cup is of most importance. But other forces fuel Hideyoshi's ambitions: the Portuguese bring a globe and guns, and he believes he can conquer Korea and China. When Rikyu raises doubts about invading China, Hideyoshi demands an apology, and Rikyu himself must find courage in the way of tea.—

Rikyu

Rikyu (1989)

Keiju Kobayashi

Yuriko Hoshi

Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to the Tokugawa shogunate and to an elegant code of action and behavior. Kondo leads the band against the forces of the Emperor in hopes of preventing his restoration to the throne.—Jim Beaver

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor (1969)

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