6.6
Curtain Call
IMDb: 6.6 2005 86 min
Kaori is pursuing her career as a journalist for a magazine with great enthusiasm. But as a result of an article she wrote, she is sent to work ...
7
The Homely Sister
IMDb: 7 1967 79 min
In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka ...
6.8
The Whale God
IMDb: 6.8 1962 100 min
A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it. A Japanese variation of the “Moby ...
7.6
The Falcon Fighters
IMDb: 7.6 1969 100 min
In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air ...
7.1
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
IMDb: 7.1 1963 93 min
[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed ...
7.2
Zatoichi on the Road
IMDb: 7.2 1963 85 min
Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in the middle of a bloody turf war. Release: ...
7.5
It Is a Long Walk
IMDb: 7.5 2000 115 min
Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she ...
6.8
Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo
IMDb: 6.8 1964 91 min
[Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This film takes place immediately following ...
7.5
Shinobi no mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back
IMDb: 7.5 1966 86 min
[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo (Mist Saizo) returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge ...
7.2
Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure
IMDb: 7.2 1964 83 min
This film of the sleepy-eyed ronin series sees the orphan swordsman wander into a town and stumble upon the opportunity to conduct righteous ...
6.8
Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
IMDb: 6.8 1966 79 min
Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political ...
6.5
Wait and See
IMDb: 6.5 1998 100 min
A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his ...
6.7
Tora-san Plays Cupid
IMDb: 6.7 1977 95 min
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya’s newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match ...
7.3
Mission: Iron Castle
IMDb: 7.3 1970 79 min
The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ...
7.0
Ninja, a Band of Assassins
IMDb: 7.0 1962 104 min
[Period covered: 1575-1681] Fist film in the Shinobi series starring Raizo Ichikawa. Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan, a ...
7.1
The Snow Woman
IMDb: 7.1 1968 79 min
A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. ...
7.2
Yunagi City, Sakura Country
IMDb: 7.2 2007 118 min
Thirteen years afterward, I wonder if those who bombed Hiroshima are looking at me and saying: ‘We did it! We were able to kill another ...
6.8
Tokyo Biyori
IMDb: 6.8 1997 121 min
This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan’s leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki. Release: Tokyo ...
6.5
Sleepy Eyes of Death 12: Castle Menagerie
IMDb: 6.5 1969 82 min
Just when you think Kyoshiro’s life can’t get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and murdering, and leaving notes ...
6.6
Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
IMDb: 6.6 1993 120 min
After the original Lone Wolf comics, films and TV series came out in the seventies, the character stayed off the movie screens until this film ...