Sanjuro(1962)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 15

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



Samurai(1965)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled ...



Rakuyôju(1986)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.



Hôrô-ki(1962)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Woman can't find a decent job, meanwhile being dumped by her boyfriend and writing on the side. people say her writing on poverty is good... See full synopsis »



Eburi manshi no yûga-na seikatsu(1963)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This comedy portrays the everyday life of an ordinary salary-man who uses himself as a model to write a novella.



Onna no naka ni iru tanin(1966)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two friends meet in a bar. Later that night, one friend's flirtatious wife is reportedly in an accident. The other friend doesn't feel well. What's come over him?



Shinsengumi(1969)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to the Tokugawa shogunate and to an elegant ...



Gekido no showashi: Okinawa kessen(1971)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0



Nippon chinbotsu(1973)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Racked by earthquakes and volcanos, Japan is slowly sinking into the sea. A race against time and tide begins as Americans and Japanese work together to salvage some fraction of the ...



Kuroi gashû: Aru sarariman no shôgen(1960)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Ishino has a pleasant life as a procurement manager in a good company, a husband with a loving wife and two kids, and a sugar daddy with a mistress. His affair jeopardizes everything when it becomes a murder suspect's only alibi.



Namonaku mazushiku utsukushiku(1961)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A sympathetic portrayal of the suffering of a deaf couple at the hands of a shell shocked postwar society that treats them like wayward children to be at turns pitied or exploited.



Bakumatsu(1970)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was ...



Gekido no showashi 'Gunbatsu'(1970)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Reporter Goro Arai covers the war for a Japanese newspaper. He follows the activities of Japan's top military leader, Hideki Tojo, and comes to view Tojo as a dangerous military tyrant. But...



Howaito rabu(1979)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A pimp has an adulterous affair with a Japanese girl who studies flamenco dancing.



Ano natsu no hi(1999)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Yuta, an absent-minded 5th-grader, is sent to spend the summer with his grandfather, whom Yuta's parents think is becoming senile and could benefit from Yuta's companionship. At first, Yuta...