Movies

​Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named...

Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon...

In a household of three the husband is a salaryman who lives with his younger sister and wife in Tokyo. He is returning home late in the evenings...

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover...

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosy detective suspicious.

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have...

A university graduate determined to become a fishmonger defies his mother's wishes, tangles with bar hostesses and a beer company heiress,...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a...

Men are being murdered by a killer who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...