Kamatari Fujiwara

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.

Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.

In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.

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

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

When poor peasants kidnap a magistrate's daughter to coerce him into reducing their unfair taxes, a wandering ronin decides to give them some help.

A doomed love between a paper merchant and a courtesan.

Hanzo Itami is an incorruptible Edo officer who learns that an infamous killer has fled from his island prison. Hanzo begins tracking him down using his unorthodox interrogation techniques.

After the mob tries to kill him for an unknown reason, a comedian steals the identity of a homeless man and goes on the run.

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a drinking habit. She's always been in love with Hiroshi, but he left for France years ago without proposing. Now he is back and Mariko (Setsuko's sister) tries t...

In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father's Yakuza clan.

Japanese version of 'Cyrano de Bergerac', a poet/swordsman with a huge nose who loves a woman who loves another. Ignoring his true feelings, he helps them get together.

Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War II's Battle of Okinawa - a massive amphibious assault by U.S. troops that left more than 150,000 Japanese civilians dead.

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

When a post-war high school girl is seen with an older boy many find the nontraditional notion unacceptable and try to trick the girl and also assail her right to continue the relationship. Cue her teacher who not only supports th...

In this sequel to Aoi sanmyaku (1949) the focus is not on the students', but the teachers' life. When one day a love letter is discovered it escalates into case over which teacher and students clash. The incident blows up and ther...

A dark satire of a contemporary Japan still exhausted from the aftermath of war, hunger, poverty and unemployment. And just as its people are recovering, there is a threat during these Cold War years of renewed militarism and rear...