Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

Japanese animation adaptation of a 19th century French novel: A boy is given up by his foster parents to a traveling performer.

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.

An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.

1971 Japanese movie

喜劇映画の名匠・瀬川昌治が、フランキー堺、佐久間良子、森光子の豪華キャストで描くコメディー映画。伊賀上野市きっての金持ち神代家の当主・里子は二度結婚するが二度とも半年足らずで夫に先立たれてしまった未亡人。まだ若く美しいが、三度目はあきらめている。神代家の副支配人の石上弘はこれを出世のチャンスとばかり再婚相手を探し、候補としてうだつのあがらない運転手・山内杉雄を見つけるが、彼にはなつ枝という年上女房がいて…。

Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.

The closest Japanese cinema ever came to the full-blown Broadway-style musical, with singing and dancing on the streets of Tokyo, music by avant-garde composer and jazzman Toshiro Mayuzumi, lyrics by renowned poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, and direction by one of Toho’s most prominent “new wave” directors, Eizo Sugawa. Popular jazz drummer and actor Frankie Sakai stars in this comic version of the “industrial competition” genre: two tourism companies compete for foreign clients in the run-up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Highlighting the coming internationalization of Japan, the film dramatizes the felt tensions between tradition and modernity, the pressures of the “economic animal” lifestyle, and the energy of high economic growth.

Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly between the Okagen Group and the rising Hashiden Gang. Now with the mediation/interference of the Americans, they decide to settle it in a peaceful, *democratic* way, that is, to settle it with a baseball game. Now, with its money and power, The Hashiden group soon recruits a group of gamblers known to be good at baseball from the whole country. So, what is the Okagen Gumi gonna do?

リル・丘野は、目下、売れっ子のグループサウンズの花形歌手である。ある夜、友人の加藤花絵がリルに相談してきた。彼女には医師の清水達郎という婚約者がいたが、薬学博士の父辰之助が、この結婚に大反対。しかも、辰之助は経営コンサルタント松村との結婚話を進めていた。彼は制癌剤の秘密書類を持っており辰之助を強請っていたばかりか、プレイボーイの悪者だ。リルは一計を案じた。カメラにかけてはプロ級の腕を持っているリルは、松村との濡れ場を自ら演じ、証拠写真を辰之助に見せれば結婚話はなくなるだろうと考えたのだ。早速、ホステスに化け、クラブに潜入したリルは、アケミと別れ話をしている松村を見つけアタックを試み、マンションへ。リルは最後の一線を守り、成功した。しかし、翌朝、松村の死が伝えられ、形勢は一転した。旗刑事の必死の聞き込み捜査で、松村が殺された夜、一緒にいた女がリルであることがバレてしまったのだ。証拠物件として濡れ湯の写真が取り上げられた。リルにはアリバイかない。翌朝の新聞・テレビは“可愛い悪女”の殺人事件を一斉に報道した。グループサウンズ“ファイブ・メイツ”の連中は主役が殺人容疑として逮捕されてお手上げの状態だ。彼等は一芝居を演じ、彼女を警察の手から逃亡させたものの、リルをかくまう場所に困った。そこに現われたのが私立探偵と名のる沼野だった。彼は製薬会社に依頼され、松村が持っていた秘密書類を探していたのだ。とりあえずリルは沼田の所に身を潜めた。と同時に真犯人探しに奔走した。まず手初めにリルは松村と関係のあったアケミを訪ねた。クラブに潜入した時、この女が「殺してやる」とうそぶいていたのを聞いたからだ。しかし、そこで旗刑事と鉢合わせ。リルは必死に逃げる。事件は混乱をきわめ、“ファイブ・メイツ”や辰之助が容疑者となり、ついにアケミが殺された。そして、生前、松村が隠しておいた振子時計や、家具が何者かによって持ち去られた。リルは家財道具を追って雪の大雪山へと飛んだ。とある山小屋に辿りついたリルと旗の前に現われたのは私立探偵の沼野だった。制癌剤に関する一連の殺人事件の犯人は沼野だったのだ。沼野にピストルをつきつけられたピンチのリルと旗刑事。旗はリルを背負って雪山をスキーで逃げる。彼のスキーの腕前はかつて国体で優勝したこともある程だ。“ファイブ・メイツ”の連中も応援にかけつけた。沼野は無事逮捕され、リルの潔白は証明されたのだ。

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

Won 3 Golden Globes. Another 4 wins & 12 nominations John Blackthorne, an English ship pilot, whose vessel wrecked upon the Japanese coast in the early 17th century is forced to deal with the two most powerful men in Japan in these days. He is thrown in the midst of a war between Toranaga and Ishido, who struggle for the title of Shogun which will give ultimate power to the one who possesses it.

In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into Communist China to bring back the flag of a defeated enemy regiment.

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.

Shipwreck survivors are found on Beiru Island (Infanto tô), which was previously used for atomic tests. The interior is amazingly free of radiation effects, and they believe that they were protected by a special juice that was given to them by the island's residents. A joint expedition of Rolisican and Japanese scientists explores Beiru and discovers many curious things, including two women only one foot (30 centimeters) high. Unscrupulous expedition leader Clark Nelson abducts the women and puts them in a vaudeville show. But their sweet singing contains a telepathic cry for help to Mothra, a gigantic moth that is worshiped as a deity by the island people. The giant monster heeds the call of the women and heads to Tokyo, wreaking destruction in its path.