Movie List for "japanese 2"

A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all. Year 1999.

A traumatized member of an elite para-military police force falls for the sister of a female terrorist courier who died in front of him on duty. Year 1999.

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world, when her grandmother dies. Year 1976.

Life story of a woman born in poverty trying to succeed. Through her many schemes, she faces her ups and downs in a cyclical nature, fueled mostly by self-interest. Year 1963.

A samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting. Year 1953.

A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk. Year 1974.

A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons. Year 1996.

A young boy follows Tashiro home to his tenement housing complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, the boy who was separated from his carpenter father somehow and somewhere in Kudan. All Tashiro knows is that the boy and his father came to Year 1947.

A hit man is hired to kill a mob boss. After the deed is done, he and his driver are wanted dead by rival gangs who joined forces. Year 1967.

The lives of a young, hearing-impaired and gloomy couple are fulfilled after the boy holds interest in surfboarding. Year 1991.

After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appeared to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men. Year 1969.

An aging Japanese industrialist becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family. Year 1955.

A housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar. Year 1964.

An innocent lamb learns about life and death when he seeks revenge upon the wolf who slaughtered his mother. Year 1978.

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty. Year 1965.

A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old. Year 1958.