4.4
Yakuza Ladies: Decision
IMDb: 4.4 1998 116 min 22 views
Kasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family investigate and find out he was trapped by greedy Nagoshi, ...
6.6
Moonlight Serenade
IMDb: 6.6 1997 117 min 22 views
After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II.
6.7
Sharaku
IMDb: 6.7 1995 140 min 26 views
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and ...
6.3
Yakuza Ladies
IMDb: 6.3 1986 120 min 30 views
While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her ...
5.6
Lullaby of Death
IMDb: 5.6 1982 111 min 23 views
Following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them.
7.1
Suspicion
IMDb: 7.1 1982 127 min 23 views
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who ...
6.8
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
IMDb: 6.8 1982 146 min 23 views
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous ...
7.4
Ballad of Orin
IMDb: 7.4 1977 118 min 36 views
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
7
The Petrified Forest
IMDb: 7 1973 118 min 17 views
Follows a young med student’s relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother’s struggle to ...
6.9
Red Lion
IMDb: 6.9 1969 115 min 23 views
Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a “red lion’s mane”, a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of ...
7.6
Double Suicide
IMDb: 7.6 1969 105 min 25 views
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century ...
7
Captive’s Island
IMDb: 7 1966 87 min 20 views
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans ...
7.5
Sword of the Beast
IMDb: 7.5 1965 85 min 18 views
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha’s Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of ...
7.2
Samurai from Nowhere
IMDb: 7.2 1964 93 min 28 views
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the ...
8
An Autumn Afternoon
IMDb: 8 1962 114 min 25 views
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the ...
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 ...
