Best Japanese movies of 1960s

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûnosuke Itô, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

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

Actors : Jûkichi Uno, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô, Nobuko Otowa,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.

Actors : Keiji Sada, Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Mariko Okada,
Directors : Yasujirô Ozu,

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

Actors : Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Yû Fujiki, Akira Takarada,
Directors : Ishirô Honda,

A greedy developer unwittingly hatches a gigantic baby moth upon Tokyo, while Godzilla strikes once again.

Actors : Keiji Sada, Setsuko Hara, Mariko Okada, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Yasujirô Ozu,

A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.

Actors : Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai, Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori,
Directors : Mikio Naruse,

A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.

Actors : Hideo Kanze, Hisashi Igawa, Sen Yano, Sumie Sasaki,
Directors : Hiroshi Teshigahara,

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.

Actors : Yôichi Numata, Shigeru Amachi, Hiroshi Hayashi, Utako Mitsuya,
Directors : Nobuo Nakagawa,

A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.

Actors : Hiroshi Koizumi, Kenji Sahara, Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno,
Directors : Ishirô Honda,

Shipwrecked survivors slowly transform into mushrooms.

Actors : Jerry Fujio, Shôki Fukae, Chitose Kobayashi, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Takashi Nomura,

A hit man is hired to kill a mob boss. After the deed is done, he and his driver are wanted dead by rival gangs who joined forces.

Actors : Carol Ohmart, Steve Rowland, Robert Hutton, Jan Brooks,
Directors : John F. Schreyer,

Three teenage criminals break out of juvenile prison and head south to Mexico.

Actors : Kyôko Kishida, Yûsuke Kawazu, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

A childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model.

Actors : Hideko Takamine, Yumi Shirakawa, Mitsuko Kusabue, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Mikio Naruse,

After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.

Actors : Nobuo Chiba, Yûzô Hayakawa, Takahiro Tamura, Ayako Wakao,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.

Actors : Mitsuko Mori, Mitsuko Kusabue, Yôko Tsukasa, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Mikio Naruse,

A man falls in love with the widow of a man he killed in a car accident. Eventually she falls in love with him in return.

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tamio Kawaji, Shinako Nakagawa, Yoshiko Nezu,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

The young rebel Juro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, with the lover of the latter and with a girl in love with him.

Actors : Masako Araki, Junpei Arishima, Junko Fuji, Daisuke Awaji,
Directors : Kôsaku Yamashita,

Oryu (Fuji Junko) is invited to stay with a local yakuza boss of a silk farming town. When a rival gang murders the boss Oryu takes it upon herself to protect his business and family.

Actors : Ikuko Asô, Toshimi Hiramatsu, Shima Iwashita, Jôji Hosoda,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

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 for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters...

Actors : Hizuru Takachiho, Kakuko Chino, Yûsuke Kawazu, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

A bored young student falls for the young secretary of his rich friend's father. She senses some good in him and tries to make him discard his aimless lifestyle.