Movies

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.

A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house. Considered a lost film.

A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause...

Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Shizuko Kasagi and Hideko Takamine star as young women who try to raise money for a needy old friend by becoming wandering singers who work for tips...

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Ex-war financier Kuraishi Kinnosuke is visited by a ghostly face in the middle of the night telling him to return the 5.5 million yen jewel he stole...

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Former boxer Goro Kawasaki was attacked by the organizer of the fights for knocking out his opponent because he could not stand the fight. He is...

Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match...