Uruwashiki saigetsu (1955) Drama Movie
Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists. Year 1955.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Masaki Kobayashi |
| Writer: Zenzô Matsuyama |
| Actors: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Isao Kimura |
Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists. Year 1955.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Masaki Kobayashi |
| Writer: Zenzô Matsuyama |
| Actors: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Isao Kimura |
A documentary following Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old WW2 veteran notorious for his protests against Emperor Hirohito, as he tries to expose the needless executions of two Japanese soldiers during the war. Year 1987.
| Generes: Documentary, War |
| Director: Kazuo Hara |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Kenzo Okuzaki, Riichi Aikawa, Masaichi Hamaguchi |
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle. Year 1986.
| Generes: Animation, Adventure, Drama |
| Director: Hayao Miyazaki |
| Writer: Hayao Miyazaki, Jonathan Swift |
| Actors: Mayumi Tanaka, Keiko Yokozawa, Kotoe Hatsui |
A childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model. Year 1964.
| Generes: Drama, Romance |
| Director: Yasuzô Masumura |
| Writer: Kaneto Shindô, Jun’ichirô Tanizaki |
| Actors: Ayako Wakao, Kyôko Kishida, Eiji Funakoshi |
A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes. Year 1964.
| Generes: Drama, Fantasy, Horror |
| Director: Masaki Kobayashi |
| Writer: Yôko Mizuki, Lafcadio Hearn |
| Actors: Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe |
Two disquieted junior baseball players seek revenge on the local yakuza for attacking their coach. Year 1990.
| Generes: Action, Comedy, Crime |
| Director: Takeshi Kitano |
| Writer: Takeshi Kitano |
| Actors: Takeshi Kitano, Yûrei Yanagi, Yuriko Ishida |
A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family. Year 1973.
| Generes: Action, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Toshiya Fujita |
| Writer: Kazuo Kamimura, Kazuo Koike, Norio Osada |
| Actors: Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon |
Haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father’s prostitute as his wife. Year 1963.
| Generes: Drama, Romance |
| Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura |
| Writer: Ryôzô Kasahara, Tsutomu Minakami |
| Actors: Ayako Wakao, Junichiro Yamashita, Tamao Nakamura |
Two friends meet in a bar. Later that night, one friend’s flirtatious wife is reportedly in an accident. The other friend doesn’t feel well. What’s come over him? Year 1966.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Mikio Naruse |
| Writer: Edouard Atiyah, Toshirô Ide |
| Actors: Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Mitsuko Kusabue |
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman. Year 1954.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Mikio Naruse |
| Writer: Yasunari Kawabata, Yôko Mizuki |
| Actors: Setsuko Hara, Sô Yamamura, Ken Uehara |
Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run. Year 1979.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Shohei Imamura |
| Writer: Masaru Baba, Ryûzô Saki, Shunsaku Ikehata |
| Actors: Ken Ogata, Rentarô Mikuni, Chôchô Miyako |
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father’s condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her. Year 1964.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Yoshitarô Nomura |
| Writer: Masato Ide, Shûgorô Yamamoto |
| Actors: Shima Iwashita, Yoshi Katô, Sachiko Hidari |
A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past. Year 1997.
| Generes: Animation, Crime, Mystery |
| Director: Satoshi Kon |
| Writer: Sadayuki Murai, Yoshikazu Takeuchi, Rika Takahashi |
| Actors: Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji |
A dashing thief, his gang of desperadoes and an intrepid policeman struggle to free a princess from an evil count’s clutches, and learn the hidden secret to a fabulous treasure that she holds part of a key to. Year 1979.
| Generes: Animation, Action, Adventure |
| Director: Hayao Miyazaki |
| Writer: Monkey Punch, Hayao Miyazaki, Haruya Yamazaki |
| Actors: Yasuo Yamada, Eiko Masuyama, Kiyoshi Kobayashi |
His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan’s military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival. Year 1961.
| Generes: Drama, History, War |
| Director: Masaki Kobayashi |
| Writer: Zenzô Matsuyama, Kôichi Inagaki, Masaki Kobayashi |
| Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura |
A violence prone police officer discovers that his colleague is trafficking drugs. Year 1989.
| Generes: Action, Crime, Drama |
| Director: Takeshi Kitano |
| Writer: Hisashi Nozawa, Takeshi Kitano |
| Actors: Takeshi Kitano, Maiko Kawakami, Makoto Ashikawa |