Daiei Film

Daiei Film

Studio

Titles

20 titles
1
Rashomon

Rashomon

1950 · 1h 28m · Movie

Three parties and a witness have four versions of a rape/murder in ninth-century Japan.

8.1
2
Hiroshima Mon Amour

Hiroshima Mon Amour

1959 · 1h 30m · Movie

A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.

7.8
3
Cure

Cure

1997 · 1h 51m · Movie

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

7.5
4
Dersu Uzala

Dersu Uzala

1975 · 2h 22m · Movie

An explorer is sent on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness and makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.

8.2
5
Pulse

Pulse

2001 · 1h 59m · Movie

Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.

6.5
6
Ugetsu

Ugetsu

1953 · 1h 36m · Movie

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

8.1
7
Sansho the Bailiff

Sansho the Bailiff

1954 · 2h 4m · Movie

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

8.4
8
Floating Weeds

Floating Weeds

1959 · 1h 59m · Movie

The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.

7.9
9
Madadayo

Madadayo

1993 · 2h 14m · Movie

Following World War II, a retired professor approaching his autumn years finds his quality of life drastically reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with his adoring students.

7.3
10
Fires on the Plain

Fires on the Plain

1959 · 1h 48m · Movie

In the closing days of WWII, remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain death by starvation.

7.9
11
A Story from Chikamatsu

A Story from Chikamatsu

1954 · 1h 42m · Movie

Ishun is a wealthy but unsympathetic master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.

8.0
12
Street of Shame

Street of Shame

1956 · 1h 26m · Movie

The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.

7.8
13
Gate of Hell

Gate of Hell

1953 · 1h 29m · Movie

A samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting.

7.1
14
Gamera, the Guardian of the Universe

Gamera, the Guardian of the Universe

1995 · 1h 36m · Movie

An ornithologist investigates reports of a monstrous new species of bird just as a teenage girl is gifted an amulet found on mysterious atoll. As the creatures begin to attack, an ancient guardian with a bond to the girl emerges.

6.7
15
The Quiet Duel

The Quiet Duel

1949 · 1h 35m · Movie

A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.

7.3
16
Blind Beast

Blind Beast

1969 · 1h 26m · Movie

A blind sculptor and his mother kidnap a young model.

7.0
17
Dead or Alive 2: Birds

Dead or Alive 2: Birds

2000 · 1h 37m · Movie

Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends.

6.7
18
Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion

Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion

1996 · 1h 39m · Movie

A meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect-like "Legion" creatures bent on colonizing the Earth. Gamera shows up to deal with the ever-evolving space adversary but the battle may result in him losing his bond with hu...

7.0
19
Gamera vs. Guiron

Gamera vs. Guiron

1969 · 1h 20m · Movie

Aliens kidnap two children and take them to another planet for the purpose of getting knowledge from their brains, but Gamera follows and tries to rescue them.

4.3
20
Rainy Dog

Rainy Dog

1997 · 1h 35m · Movie

A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.

7.0