Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
Profound Desires of the Gods 1968 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 th
Kwaidan (1964)
Kwaidan 1964 This film contains four distinct, separate stories Black Hair A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her The Woman in the Snow Stranded in a snowstorm, a woodcutt
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Vengeance Is Mine 1979 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
Musuko (1991)
Musuko (1991) Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college- educated brother, but ultimately wins both the girl and his father's acceptance and support in a touching and refreshing way.
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981) A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father's Yakuza clan.
Wife (1953)
Wife (1953) Tokyo. Mihoko and Toichi Nakagawa's ten year marriage is crumbling out of inertia. Each knows the other isn't happy, they themselves aren't happy, but they don't talk about their problems ...
Rikyu (1989)
Rikyu (1989) Legendary tea master Sen no Rikyu is faced with his warmongering lord's unrealistic pretensions.
The Burmese Harp (1956)
The Burmese Harp 1956 Mizushima is a soldier in the Japanese army in Burma in World War II Hes a good soldier and frequently plays his harp to entertain his fellow soldiers When the war comes to an end, he is asked by the British to go into the mountains to try and convince a Japanese troop to surre
The Good Fairy (1951)
Chikage Awashima leaves her husband, Koreya Sendai Because he is a high ranking official and a socially important man, this is potential news for the gutter press Reporter Rentaro Mikuni is assigned to the story Sendai refuses to comment, but Mikuni tracks down the ladys sister, Yoko Katsuragi, who
Ballad of the Cart (1959)
Ballad of the Cart 1959 Spanning decades of radically changing times, this compelling epic drama closes on a touching note as a soldier returns at the end of the Second World War Very much centre of the saga is Seki, characterised with a tremendous emotionally charged performance from Yuko Mochizuki
Kiga kaikyo (1965)
Kiga kaikyo 1965 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
Ibo kyoudai (1957)
Ibo kyoudai 1957 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
Zatoichi at Large (1972)
Zatoichi at Large 1972 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 childs aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead
Shiiku (1961)
Shiiku 1961 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 co