8.1
Hachi-ko
IMDb: 8.1 1987 107 min
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno’s death. Release: Hachiko ...
6.9
Basara: Princess Goh
IMDb: 6.9 1992 142 min
The final feature by Hiroshi Teshigahara. A direct sequel to his preceding film, Rikyu (1989). Release: Basara The Princess Goh 1992 JAPANESE ...
7.0
August without Emperor
IMDb: 7.0 1978 140 min
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the ...
5.8
Band of Ninja
IMDb: 5.8 1967 135 min
The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father’s death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja ...
6.8
The Bullet Train
IMDb: 6.8 1975 152 min
One of the Japanese Shinkansen “Bullet Trains” is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 ...
6.8
A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
IMDb: 6.8 2001 113 min
The story opens with Yukiko and her business partner in Moscow searching for Russian items for their store in Tokyo. There they meet a Russian ...
6.8
Human
IMDb: 6.8 1962 117 min
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly ...
8
Willful Murder
IMDb: 8 1981 132 min
In 1949, Mr. Shimoyama, governor of Japan National Railroads, was found dead, run by train, after a mysterious disappearance. Officially it was ...
6.9
With Beauty and Sorrow
IMDb: 6.9 1965 106 min
When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager–and then wrote a bestselling novel about it–reappears in her life, ...
6.7
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
IMDb: 6.7 1965 143 min
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan ...
7.1
The Fossil
IMDb: 7.1 1975 200 min
This drama is adapted from a Japanese television mini-series. In the story, an industrialist learns of a medical condition which will greatly ...
6.3
Sing, Young People
IMDb: 6.3 1963 86 min
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie ...
5.3
Shutter
IMDb: 5.3 2008 85 min
A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may ...
6.8
The Freezing Point
IMDb: 6.8 1966 96 min
Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. He believes of her ...
6.8
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
IMDb: 6.8 1970 104 min
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo’s red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws. Release: The ...