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poster
Criterion Channel
86
8.0
/8311/
76
/138/
77
/188/
4.2
/12854/
100
/14/
89
/66/

The Life of Oharu (1952)
In 17th century Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
poster
fuboTV
83
81
7.8
/20567/
76
/368/
75
/339/
4.0
/38269/
100
/21/
91
/405/

Stray Dog (1949)
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.
poster
Criterion Channel
66
59
6.7
/5000/
66
/155/
63
/107/
3.6
/17508/
66
/138/

Jigoku (1960)
A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
51
7.4
/1415/
71
/19/
70
/31/
3.8
/2857/
89
/86/

The Munekata Sisters (1950)
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.
poster
Hoopla
70
50
7.0
/2184/
70
/66/
64
/60/
3.7
/5887/
73
/29/

The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959)
This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend which tells of a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and power.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
34
7.2
/644/
63
/17/
68
/25/
3.6
/2898/

Love Letter (1953)
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
33
7.5
/960/
68
/17/
68
/18/
3.9
/1801/

Mother (1952)
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
poster
66
25
7.1
/689/
60
/7/
66
/27/
3.7
/1610/
62
/1/

Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950)
A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.
poster
64
22
6.5
/558/
57
/9/
63
/18/
3.5
/1506/
67
/5/

Black Cat Mansion (1958)
The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her.
poster
Hoopla
43
19
3.4
/780/
39
/20/
48
/18/
2.7
/567/
41
/215/

Attack from Space (1965)
The superhero Starman is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from belligerent aliens from the Sapphire Galaxy. The Sapphireans (or "Spherions") kidnap Dr. Yamanaka and force him to use his spaceship against the Earth.
poster
72
19
7.7
/329/
60
/7/
73
/12/
3.9
/910/

An Inn at Osaka (1954)
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.
poster
Plex
41
15
3.5
/951/
42
/14/
49
/18/
2.8
/427/
24
/120/

Evil Brain from Outer Space (1966)
An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle them all to save his planet.
poster
64
14
7.5
/360/
44
/5/
64
/12/
3.7
/565/

Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953)
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
poster
Public Domain Movies
42
11
3.9
/502/
46
/13/
41
/9/
3.0
/272/
27
/58/

Atomic Rulers (1965)
Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!
poster
?
10
/1/

黄金奉行 (1958)
Japanese film.
poster
?
10
/1/

修羅八荒 猛襲伏魔殿 (1957)
Japanese film.
poster
?
10
/1/

Picture Book of Sarutobi Sasuke (1953)
Japanese film.
poster
?
10
/1/

皇室と戦争とわが民族 (1960)
Japanese war film.
poster
?
6.5
/13/
10
/1/

Nobuko Rides on a Cloud (1955)
A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was born and what the world would be like if she where never born. While in the clouds she meets her grandparents and a few other people she loved who have passed on.
poster
?
6.6
/19/
10
/1/

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Six Famous Beauties (1956)
Famed detective Dandy Sashichi tries to solve who's behind the serial murders of six beautiful women under the aegis of local showman Ibaragiya. The film opens with the sextet humiliating a respected painter's portraits of them, driving the man to a sus­picious suicide. Later, while celebrating his son's impending marriage into a wealthy family, Ibaragiya releases six pigeons from a pleasure boat, each with a rolled up drawing of one of the beauties tied to their legs. He offers a cash reward to whomever recovers the pictures, but they instead become death notices of which of the six are next to die.
poster
?
10
/1/

Basement of Death (1960)
Shintoho crime film directed by Kyotaro Namiki.
poster
?
20
/1/

Hôman bijo: Shitakute tamaranai! (2003)
Pink film directed by Rei Sakamoto.
poster
?
10
/1/

金語楼の雷社長 (1956)
A humorous salaryman comedy about the president of a beer company who is said to be President Rai. The third work after the Kingoro's Soldier and the "Kingoro's Officer". The original work is Kuni Sasaki, the adaptation is Yasunori Kawauchi of "The Officer of the Golden Tower".
poster
?
10
/1/

女大学野球狂時代 (1956)
Japanese comedy film.
poster
?
10
/1/

Speed King (1956)
Japanese film about motorcycle racing.
poster
?
10
/1/

金語楼の成金王 (1958)
Japanese comedy film.
poster
?
10
/1/

Elegy of a Geisha (1959)
1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".
poster
?
10
/1/

ワンマン今昔物語 (1959)
Japanese comedy film.
poster
?
10
/1/

Fighting Horizon (1960)
Japanese film about a juvenile delinquent who becomes a part of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.
poster
?
7.0
/8/

Joi no shinsatsushitsu (1950)
A doctor is surprised when her long-lost love is transferred to the same hospital, and even more surprised to discover that he has a wife and child. Will she be able to confess her feelings to him before her worsening heart disease claims her life?
poster
?
10
/1/

Keiyaku kekkon (1961)
1961 Japanese movie
poster
?
10
/1/

The Fencing Collegian (1956)
Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.
poster
?
10
/1/

坊ちゃんの特ダネ記者 (1957)
Japanese comedy film.
poster
?
10
/1/

Onatsu and Seijuro (1954)
Based on the popular story of the tragic lovers, Onatsu and Seijuro.
poster
?
10
/2/

Nonki saiban (1955)
A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crime of killing with laughter.
poster
?
10
/1/

Enoken the Hero (1950)
Set in the Sengoku period, Tokugawa vassal Yakurota (Kenichi Enomoto) helps the older sister and twin sister of the Matsudaira family who are in love with his best friend Iori while also resolving the conflict between the Tokugawa and Oda Nobunaga.
poster
?
10
/1/

乾杯!女学生 (1954)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

Kingorō no kaigun taishô (1959)
Japanese comedy film.
poster
?
10
/1/

剣聖 暁の三十六番斬り (1957)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

World War II (1954)
Japanese documentary.
poster
?
10
/1/

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Dead Woman's Tattoo (1958)
The fifth volume of the Ningyo Sana Torimonocho series. Based on the original work by Seishi Yokomizo, the film was adapted by Mitsuo Kaneda (The Nude Model Murder Case), directed by Tatsuo Yamada, who worked on The Golden Bugyo, and shot by Kikuzo Kawasaki. Keiko Hibino, Shigeru Amachi, Tomisaburo Wakayama
poster
?
10
/1/

Dry Wives and Ruling Husbands (1957)
Japanese comedy film.
poster
?
10
/1/

若社長と爆発娘 (1960)
Japanese comedy film.
poster
?
10
/1/

Holiday in Japan -Chapter 2- (1958)
Part 2 of Holiday in Japan
poster
?
10
/1/

Holiday in Japan (1958)
Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.
poster
?
5.2
/9/
10
/1/

Guntō nanban-sen (1950)
1950 Japanese movie
poster
?
10
/1/

Zoku-sei to ningen (1961)
1961 Japanese movie
poster
?
10
/1/

Sekai no haha (1958)
N/A


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