Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

In the final days of World War II, occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines face resistance from...

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...

Kaoru Fukazawa is a manga artist. His manga series was published for eight years, but has now finish...

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and...

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined...

It is the Edo Period. Younosuke, Nami, and Koutaro of the Hayate School and Ikkaku and Ikki of the I...

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...

Five loosely connected storylines concerning the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puer...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family for an old man asked Sawa to sleep with h...

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife fr...

When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the begi...