Movies

A teacher in a poor island community tries to improve his students' spirits by entering them in a volleyball tournament as long-shot underdogs.

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

1961 Japanese movie

The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima

The first work of 27-year-old director Eizo Sugawa, contrasting a politician father and his son, a drummer in a student band. It depicts the conflict...

A non-prolific writer, Takayama Osamu and his wife, Yoshiko, though not blessed with children, live happily together. They should have had peaceful...

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.

A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and...

Story of young love in the hills.

Yakuza Naoki Sando discovers his daughter Hiroko in bed with his adopted son Kohji. Three years later, Kohji is working the streets as a hustler,...

1962 Japanese movie

A carefree student from a traditional sake shop family balances love, rebellion, and a bike race while clashing with gangsters and his old-fashioned...

Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with the daughter of a wealthy trading company...

1967 Japanese movie

A 1964 war film directed by Kengo Furusawa

Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.

1961 Japanese movie

JA woman is witness to a murder but flees the scene, leaving behind only a handkerchief with her name, Rie, embroidered upon it. Police race to find...

Eiichiro, a talented young salesman, grows disillusioned with office politics and returns to his family’s traditional tofu business, applying...

Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn.