6.2
The Far Road
IMDb: 6.2 1977 114 min
Follows railway workers’ struggles to create unions during a period of economic growth and increased automation. Release: The Far Road 1977 ...
6.8
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
IMDb: 6.8 1977 110 min
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai’s heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by ...
7.1
Stolen Pleasure
IMDb: 7.1 1962 88 min
Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adaptation by Kaneto Shindo, Masumura Yasuzo directs. A battle of woman competing for the same man. ...
7.2
Our Town
IMDb: 7.2 1956 98 min
In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his ...
7
Dixieland Daimyo
IMDb: 7 1986 85 min
Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical ...
7.7
Drunken Angel
IMDb: 7.7 1948 98 min
A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond. Release: Yoidore tenshi 1948 ...
7.8
Vengeance Is Mine
IMDb: 7.8 1979 140 min
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this ...
8.0
Onibaba
IMDb: 8.0 1964 105 min
In medieval times, on a remote plain, a widow and her mother-in-law kill wandering samurai, put their bodies in a hole in the ground and sell ...
5.8
Hawaiian Dream
IMDb: 5.8 1987 114 min
Tatsuhiko and Shofumi are hoodlums living in downtown Hawaii, who have flown out of Japan and entered the country illegally for a reason. The two ...
5.9
Time Within Memory
IMDb: 5.9 1973 117 min
Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru ...
6.3
The Strangling
IMDb: 6.3 1979 116 min
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and ...
7.4
Ditch
IMDb: 7.4 1954 111 min
Toku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with ...
6.9
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
IMDb: 6.9 1959 86 min
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an ...
4.5
The Now Girl
IMDb: 4.5 1972 74 min
For a girl who works in a 3rd rate bar, Ayuko is full of vanity. Nomura, her patron, is besotted by her and it is their habit that they cannot ...
7.1
Evil Spirits of Japan
IMDb: 7.1 1970 96 min
Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how ...
6.5
Temptation
IMDb: 6.5 1957 91 min
Shokichi, a shop owner and middle-aged widower, could never forget your first love. The second floor of the shop is an art gallery where his ...
6.4
The Iron Crown
IMDb: 6.4 1972 91 min
A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night. Release: ...
7.9
Good Morning
IMDb: 7.9 1959 94 min
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of interÂgenerational relationships, Good Morning tells ...
6.9
Hymn
IMDb: 6.9 1972 112 min
The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to ...
7.1
Endless Desire
IMDb: 7.1 1958 101 min
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried ...