5.6
Father
IMDb: 5.6 1988 74 min
A middle-aged man’s family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life. Release: Father 1988 JAPANESE ...
7.1
Appassionata
IMDb: 7.1 1984 145 min
This story is based on the novel “Jo no mai” by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875-1949), the ...
7.5
Deep River
IMDb: 7.5 1995 130 min
A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India. Release: Fukai Kawa Deep River 1995 Kei KUMAI salmond ...
7.1
An Innocent Witch
IMDb: 7.1 1965 98 min
Oshima Ayako, a young woman in her teens, lives in a small, impoverished fishing village. Her father is too ill to work. As a result, her mother ...
6.5
Ballad of a Workman
IMDb: 6.5 1962 102 min
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream ...
7
The Last Song
IMDb: 7 1975 94 min
Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against ...
7.1
Girls of the Night
IMDb: 7.1 1961 92 min
A prostitute tries to change her life after the enforcement of an anti-prostitution law. Release: Girl Of Dark 1961 JAPANESE BRRip x264-VXT ...
7.4
The Blossom and the Sword
IMDb: 7.4 1973 149 min
One of director Koto’s bloodiest, most evocative, skilfully orchestrated fight scenes, Poetic, gut-wrenching and, at times, very moving. ...
6.3
Tales of a Golden Geisha
IMDb: 6.3 1990 114 min
The film stars two of Itami’s regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko ...
7.1
The Funeral
IMDb: 7.1 1984 124 min
At the beginning of the film the father-in-law of the protagonist dies unexpectedly of a heart attack. The remainder of the film is episodic, ...
6.4
Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder!
IMDb: 6.4 1985 121 min
The “Hissatsu!” band of assassins gets involved in an old mansion with a secret weapon. Release: Sure Death Brown You Bounder 1985 ...
7.5
Joke with a Sorrowful Heart
IMDb: 7.5 1985 108 min
This is a sad and beautiful story about a father who is a popular comedian and a son who suffered by an incurable disease. Release: Kanashii ...
7.1
Haru’s Journey
IMDb: 7.1 2010 134 min
Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao’s grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make. ...
7.0
Stakeout
IMDb: 7.0 1958 116 min
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame. Release: ...
7.0
I, the Executioner
IMDb: 7.0 1968 90 min
Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer’s machinations and a young man who committed suicide. Release: I, the ...
5.4
Sure Death
IMDb: 5.4 1984 123 min
A group of seemingly ordinary merchants is really a band of assassins for hire. When they discover that all the assassins in Edo are being killed ...
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 ...
7.4
Dodes’ka-den
IMDb: 7.4 1970 140 min
By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa’s film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the ...
7.8
This Transient Life
IMDb: 7.8 1970 143 min
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes ...
7.0
Fire Festival
IMDb: 7.0 1985 125 min
Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, instead promoting his traditions in reactionary ...