Birthday: 1927-03-11
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother man...
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Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...
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In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
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Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...
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After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Inte...
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Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attemp...
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A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...
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There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his ...
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Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society...
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The biggest crisis has come to Matsushita, a shootist who has passed through numerous shrines!...
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Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Jap...
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Temari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her little brother....
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Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori cla...
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A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on...
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Set in a small Nagano village in the 1930s, the film follows Hanji, a young boy captivated by a loca...
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Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi househo...
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War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years ...
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Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his ...
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Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundre...
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Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish b...
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A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagan...
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Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's ...
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Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to...
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Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one h...
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Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take ...
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After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
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A woman in a bright green coat, Mizue (Toda Naho), gets off the bus at Shikaoi Town in Hokkaido. She...
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Documentary on baseball player Shigeo Nagashima...
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In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As fur...
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Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite b...
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The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan ...
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A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual pow...
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Hiromi, attends junior high school in Tokyo. The combination of getting bullied on campus and her fa...
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Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the...
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When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, gr...
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A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon....
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Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying...
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After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunne...
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TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. P...
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Traditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for amateur s...
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A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away....
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Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposi...
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Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see h...
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Documentary about Japanese film director Shohei Imamura....
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Richness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted....
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The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a w...
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A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and roman...
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During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparen...
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A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes unde...
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During the Vietnam War, an American G.I. deserts his base in Japan and escapes to Tokyo with the hel...
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The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a h...
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When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how...
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“I like shady dealings,” purrs undercover superspy Yabuki en route to infiltrating a sadistic, trigg...
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This is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of earl...
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In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to aven...
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When her husband is betrayed by his fellow yakuza and jailed, his wife takes over and fights to prev...
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Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th centu...
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A free-spirited girl living in a Japanese province spends her time working in a brothel and running ...
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By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers...
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A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police....
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A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visi...
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Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes p...
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A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about th...
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Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...
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Psychological noir drama involving the tangled web of a disgraced yakuza, an innocent school girl, a...
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Nakazo is forced by his foster mother, Shun, to practice dance intensively. He is bullied in the Kab...
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This film stays very faithful to the original down to the smallest details, save for the kangaroo-ra...
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A comedy directed by Mitsumasa Saito about a pair of clumsy detectives who solve a case they become ...
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Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong ...
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Izumi Kayo, who works as a surgeon at a university medical school affiliated hospital in the Sanin r...
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