The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined...
High schooler Shiori lives with her education-minded mother. Struggling with her life in Tokyo, she ...
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
Sawamura, a contract part-timer dragged into a multi-million yen internet business, and Kamo, an off...
In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds c...
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals....
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...
A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.
A story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art museum...
In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning ...
In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As fur...
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction...
Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shift...
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...
The third work in the "Not in Textbooks!" series, which is a live-action movie of a popular love com...