7.4
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
IMDb: 7.4 1955 94 min
A young samurai, Shojuro Sako, travels on the Tokaido to Edo with his two servants, Genta and Gonpachi. Gonpachi has been told by Shojuro’s ...
8.2
Rashomon
IMDb: 8.2 1950 88 min
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, “Rashomon” is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the ...
8.2
Yojimbo
IMDb: 8.2 1961 110 min
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the ...
7.4
A Wanderer’s Notebook
IMDb: 7.4 1962 124 min
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko ...
7.7
Floating Clouds
IMDb: 7.7 1955 123 min
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. ...
0
Twilight Saloon
1955 94 min
Takes place in one place, a beer hall, over the course of one evening. Uchida employs this concentration of setting and time to fashion a ...
7.2
Sudden Rain
IMDb: 7.2 1956 91 min
The husband, Ryotaro Namiki (Shuji Sano), works in the sales department of a cosmetics company and suffers from a bad stomach. His relationship ...
7.4
The School of Spies
IMDb: 7.4 1966 96 min
Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names, ...
6.8
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
IMDb: 6.8 1949 73 min
In this second part to The Yotsuda Phantom, Iemon’s apparent success is minimized by his own feelings of guilt, the quickly mounting ...
7.6
Mother
IMDb: 7.6 1952 98 min
Okaasan is the story of a poor, working class mother with a sick husband who sacrifices herself to support her family in suburban Tokyo. The film ...
7.4
The 47 Ronin
IMDb: 7.4 1941 223 min
Produced over a two-year period, Kenji Mizoguchi’s version of the oft-filmed Seika Mayama story The 47 Ronin was too big to be confined to ...
7.0
Untamed Woman
IMDb: 7.0 1957 121 min
Set in the Taishō period of Japan (dating from 1912 to 1926), Untamed follows the fiery Oshima (in a superbly eccentric performance by Takamine) ...
7.2
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
IMDb: 7.2 1960 123 min
This film features a large extended family (and associates) even more extensive than the one portrayed by Ozu in “End of Summer”. The ...
7.4
Late Chrysanthemums
IMDb: 7.4 1954 101 min
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, ...
6.7
Rise Against the Sword
IMDb: 6.7 1966 101 min
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura ...
5.9
Superexpress
IMDb: 5.9 1964 93 min
A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to ...
6.7
Fountainhead
IMDb: 6.7 1956 129 min
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply. Release: Izumi aka Fountainhead 1956 General: ...
7.4
I Want to Be a Shellfish
IMDb: 7.4 1959 89 min
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural ...
7.1
Moment of Terror
IMDb: 7.1 1966 100 min
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child’s mother (Hideko Takamine) seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling ...
7.2
The Approach of Autumn
IMDb: 7.2 1960 79 min
A 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 ...