Nikkatsu Corporation Movies

In pre-war Japan, Yumiko, an aristocratic lady, accompanied by her maid, travels to Tokyo to visit her brother. Unaware that her brother has become in...

1962 Japanese movie

Various family members scheme to inherit their father’s business for themselves… by any means.

An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A com...

1961 Japanese movie

Another entry in the Nikkatsu Roman Porno Movie genre.

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

A group of friends get together to remember a decessed classmate. One of them is a detective who loves one of the women. But the woman is in love the...

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962),Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, fr...

Chie (Sanae Ōhori),newly arrived in Tokyo, saves her friend from school, Mari (Annu Mari),from a suicide attempt. The two girls become close, eventu...

Based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Komimasa Tanaka, the film tell the story of a strip-teaser, and her daughter who wishes to join her mother...

Aboard a night ferry in the Inland Sea, Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi),a young tough, who supplies hostesses to night spots, encounters Yuko, his e...

Depicts the laughable and sad real life of high school baseball players.

Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and child.

In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who...

In a room with only a bed, Shizumi's left hand was somehow fixed to the bed by handcuffs and chains. "Who is this man?", "Why am I sleeping like this?...

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...