6.4
The Tattooed Hitman
IMDb: 6.4 1974 106 min
The most dangerous hired gun in Tokyo’s underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there’s a contract on his ...
7.7
Japan’s Longest Day
IMDb: 7.7 1967 157 min
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the ...
6.9
Colonel Kato’s Falcon Squadron
IMDb: 6.9 1944 110 min
A 1944 propaganda film that depicts the fictionalised career of IJAAF pilot Tateo Kato, who led the 64th Sentai during the early months of the ...
6.2
New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
IMDb: 6.2 1969 109 min
Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the ...
6.2
Storm Over the Pacific
IMDb: 6.2 1960 118 min
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan’s Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl ...
5.7
The Most Beautiful
IMDb: 5.7 1944 85 min
The stories of several young women who work in a ‘precision optical instruments’ factory during the second World War. Despite ...
6.2
Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments
IMDb: 6.2 1971 89 min
As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up ...
7.8
The Life of a Horse Trader
IMDb: 7.8 1951 113 min
This early gem starring the great Mifune Toshiro tells the tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka “The Shark,” a rough-and-tumble horse trader ...
6.9
The Angry Street
IMDb: 6.9 1950 105 min
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the ...
6.9
Sword for Hire
IMDb: 6.9 1952 135 min
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and ...
7.3
The Retreat from Kiska
IMDb: 7.3 1965 105 min
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an ...
7.2
Points and Lines
IMDb: 7.2 1958 85 min
Based on Matsumoto Seicho’s classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to ...
5.8
Godzilla
IMDb: 5.8 1977 93 min
The film is a re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of Godzilla featuring 80 minutes of footage from the original Gojira (1954) and the US ...
7.0
It’s Tough Being a Man
IMDb: 7.0 1969 91 min
Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father’s house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister ...
7.3
A Whistle in My Heart
IMDb: 7.3 1959 126 min
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan’s indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their ...
5.5
Frankenstein Conquers the World
IMDb: 5.5 1965 90 min
During WWII, a human heart taken from Dr. Frankenstein’s lab and is kept in Japan where it gets exposed to the radiation of the bombing of ...
7.4
Sanshiro Sugata
IMDb: 7.4 1965 159 min
Remake of Kurosawa’s films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes ...
6.8
Sanshiro Sugata
IMDb: 6.8 1943 80 min
The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new ...
7.1
No Regrets for Our Youth
IMDb: 7.1 1946 110 min
Yukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings, and even ...
6.6
Vendetta of a Samurai
IMDb: 6.6 1952 82 min
The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by ...