6
Foujita
IMDb: 6 2015 126 min 24 views
A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and ...
7
Villain
IMDb: 7 2010 139 min 20 views
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services ...
6.4
Yamato
IMDb: 6.4 2005 143 min 32 views
Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, “Yamato” has a framing story set in the present day and uses flashbacks to ...
7.3
Letter from the Mountain
IMDb: 7.3 2002 128 min 21 views
Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.
7.3
Madadayo
IMDb: 7.3 1993 134 min 25 views
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the ...
6.5
The Oil-Hell Murder
IMDb: 6.5 1992 115 min 24 views
The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents.
6.8
Basara: Princess Goh
IMDb: 6.8 1992 142 min 21 views
Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to ...
6.4
War and Youth
IMDb: 6.4 1991 112 min 20 views
An auto repairman’s daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man ...
6.7
Boiling Point
IMDb: 6.7 1990 96 min 24 views
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. ...
7.7
Dreams
IMDb: 7.7 1990 119 min 21 views
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
7
Demon Pond
IMDb: 7 1979 124 min 23 views
Outside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Their story is of revenge, tragedy, and the power of ...
6.7
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
IMDb: 6.7 1978 112 min 21 views
Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence ...
6.2
The Far Road
IMDb: 6.2 1977 114 min 25 views
Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad ...
6.7
Tora-san’s Runaway
IMDb: 6.7 1970 88 min 28 views
After an encounter with a dying yakuza’s son and at his sister Sakura’s urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and ...
7.9
The Face of Another
IMDb: 7.9 1966 124 min 20 views
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
8.6
Harakiri
IMDb: 8.6 1962 135 min 21 views
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a ...
