Akihiko Katayama Movies

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan...

1956 Japanese movie

Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete...

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi),made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a youn...

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film t...

The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshid...

Japanese drama film.

Japanese musical.

In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant metal...

Japanese film.

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the famil...

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

Horror film directed by Koji Shima.

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.

A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is presum...

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a sec...