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poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.6
/18442/
76
/660/
75
/402/
4.1
/72346/
100
/10/
86
/416/
80
/6/

Lady Snowblood (1973)
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
79
7.8
/11767/
77
/280/
78
/273/
4.2
/52860/
86
/7/
90
/103/
6.9
/2890/

The Face of Another (1966)
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality and causing him to question his identity.
poster
Criterion Channel
63
56
6.3
/4702/
66
/163/
64
/135/
3.3
/12353/
59
/110/

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974)
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.
poster
77
55
7.6
/2847/
72
/46/
74
/65/
4.0
/3488/
85
/21/

Goyokin (1969)
A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
poster
64
33
6.4
/2273/
69
/33/
64
/34/
3.3
/503/
58
/25/

None But the Brave (1965)
American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations. Told through the eyes of the American and Japanese unit commanders, who must deal with an atmosphere of growing distrust and tension between their men.
poster
70
30
7.3
/413/
65
/10/
64
/16/
3.9
/2752/

Girls of the Night (1961)
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
14
7.0
/288/
70
/9/
60
/12/
3.6
/636/

The Petrified Forest (1973)
Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estranged relationship.
poster
?
10
/1/

Morishige, where are you going? (1956)
A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow, is vividly depicted to the tune of "Moonlit Desert" in this humanistic drama full of pathos, starring Hisaya Morishige.
poster
?
5.2
/7/
10
/1/

River of Forever (1967)
Pure love story
poster
?
10
/1/

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant (1962)
The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.
poster
?
6.7
/8/
10
/1/

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox (1961)
Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for advice from her childhood friends Kintaro, a textile manufacturer, and Magosaku, an entrepreneur, about a big-shot from Osaka who wants to invest in her shop. However, Kintaro and Magosaku suspect that things are not what they seem...
poster
?
6.6
/14/
10
/1/

The Bride from Japan (1959)
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
poster
?
10
/1/

Ika naru hoshi no moto ni (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
?
8.1
/13/
10
/1/

The Maid Story (1963)
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.
poster
?
6.6
/13/
10
/1/

Snow in the South Seas (1961)
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
poster
?
7.9
/13/
10
/1/

My Hobo (1962)
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who become a most atypical Japanese family.
poster
?
7.3
/18/
10
/1/

Hito mo arukeba (1960)
A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
poster
?
10
/1/

Hagure kigeki mandara (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
?
10
/1/

Obon, The Moll Dipper (1961)
Modern comedy, based on the popular manga.
poster
?
5.0
/6/
10
/1/

An Urban Affair (1961)
Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.
poster
?
5.2
/14/
10
/1/

ドリフターズですよ!盗って盗って盗りまくれ (1968)
N/A
poster
?
90

Doterai Man (1975)
Business is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon starring Teruhiko Saigo. Set in a wholesaler town in Osaka, it depicts the activities of the main character Takezo Yamashita who repels adversity with a man's stubbornness and guts.
poster
?
10
/1/

Hadaka no Machi (1957)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

O Luna, My Pony! (1967)
Based on the hit song, the story involves a young boy and girl who leave their home in Hokkaido to come and live in Tokyo.
poster
?
10
/1/
60
/1/

Bravo, Young Guy (1970)
A film by Katsumi Iwauchi.
poster
?
10
/1/

A Lavish Invitation (1968)
The Tigers, a rock band, escape their parents and teachers trying to forcibly cut their long hair, but accidentally stow away on a train to Tokyo. In Tokyo they get in some trouble, but eventually get jobs as musical assistants. Can they make the stage debut they've always dreamed of, or will their dreams be cut short?
poster
?
10
/1/

Sanbaba (1974)
A story about being scared of getting old.
poster
?
7.1
/19/
10
/1/
70
/1/

Bride of the Andes (1966)
A young Japanese woman comes to Peru to marry a man she has never seen in this somber drama highlighted by cultural differences. Her husband is a first-generation Japanese and both are bound to the time-honored tradition of arranged marriages. Bringing her child from a previous marriage, she finds her new husband living with Andes Mountain Indians and working for an archaeological expedition. The man and her boy take to each other, and the woman begins to study and understand the lives of the Indians. When her husband is killed mining for Incan treasure, she uses the money sent by the state to stay and help the villagers whom she has come to love.
poster
?
6.1
/21/
10
/1/

The Song of the Bwana Toshi (1965)
Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world completely unlike the one he knows. His interaction with the Africans he meets reveals to him that he has been living a lie, and that he is not the man he thought he was.
poster
?
7.7
/29/
10
/1/

Sweet Sweat (1964)
This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to keep her family together. Her 17-year-old daughter Takeko becomes increasingly upset by her mother's constant drinking and yakuza boyfriend, and runs away from home. Kyo's performance was highly praised.
poster
?
6.8
/9/
10
/1/

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi (1965)
Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the well-established Rokujo family from the beginning. With the support of Jiro, a young man Ine's late husband had saved from homelessness as a young boy, Ine tries to keep the family's heritage of silk processing alive. Their close relationship soon causes gossip among the villagers and threaten Ine's position in the family even further ...
poster
?
10
/1/

The Cola Game (1959)
Explicit drama about a young woman who becomes involved with a group of college students who play "spin-the-bottle" and the women must make love or strip. The woman, Junko, becomes involved with Makoto, leader of the gang, becomes pregnant, has an abortion, then gets involved with an architect.
poster
?
10
/1/
100
/1/

Bot-chan (1953)
1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
poster
?
5.3
/14/
10
/1/

The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night (1960)
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.
poster
?
7.4
/39/
45
/2/
65
/2/

Death on the Mountain (1961)
Three bankers, out on holiday, climb the Japanese Alps. One dies under mysterious circumstances, and later it is suggested that perhaps the man was murdered.
poster
?
10
/1/

The Origin of Twenty Years Old (1973)
On June 24, 1969, Etsuko Takano, a 20-year-old third-year student at Ritsumeikan University, jumped in front of a train and died instantly. She left no suicide note, but did leave over a dozen diaries. This film is based on her writings.
poster
?
5.8
/13/
60
/1/

The Alaska Story (1977)
A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the gold rush in Alaska. But he does not forget them.
poster
?
10
/1/

Koibito-tachi no iru machi (1953)
Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop, is the lover of Douta Kuraishi, the manager of Cabaret Orion.
poster
?
10
/1/

Escape Zone (1953)
Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a beautiful woman with a sad face.
poster
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10
/1/

Good Son-in-Law (1954)
Asahi Shoji's office girl, Aiko Tatebayashi, is a modern girl of Akira herself. The dentist's father has already cleared up his eldest daughter Keiko to Mizukami, but this time Aiko's turn and her sister's wedding greeting card are handy to add a request for the color of her sister's son. However, Aiko, who wants to be herself, uses the help of her friend, private detective Nobuko Migishi, to break through the behavior of the matchmaker, Mrs. Yamaguchi, who is a matchmaker. However, Nobuko's mistress Rokuro Kojima has become sloppy these days, so when Aiko investigated this time, it was found that the cause was Kojima's best friend Hiroshi Minamimura. Aiko was completely indignant at Minamimura's rude attitude of saying what she thought. In the mouth of Mrs. Yamaguchi's match, Mr. Fumio Kaki, the sales manager, is the best candidate.
poster
?
10
/1/

The Whisper of Spring (1952)
After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt sweater.
poster
?
5.8
/10/
10
/1/

Forbidden Affair (1970)
Ryô is a young leopard, Maki a rhythmical wave. The barrier between a teacher and a student gives way to the passionate embrace of a man and a woman desperately in love.
poster
?
10
/1/

The Tigers - Hi! London (1969)
The Tigers are much too busy to have a holiday; but one day a mysterious man appears in their dressing room and offers them a trip to anywhere in the world. But he tells them they must come back in 24 hours or else he'll own their hearts. The mysterious man is the devil.
poster
?
6.9
/22/
10
/1/

Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai (1963)
Ensemble comedy.
poster
?
7.0
/48/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Room for Let (1959)
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.
poster
?
10
/1/

Could I But Live (1964)
Could I But Live
poster
?
7.0
/9/
10
/1/

Kaei (1961)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

Onna no hanamichi (1971)
A film commemorating the 25th anniversary of Hibari Misora's performing career. Written by Matsutaro Kawaguchi for Hibari Misora to celebrate her 25th anniversary. The film tells the story of a fisherman's daughter from Izumo who rises from poverty to Kyoto, throws herself into the harsh world of dance, abandons her promised future and love, and finds the path to womanhood by living a life devoted to her art, which is rooted in the masses. Hibari Misora plays the role of a 16-year-old girl to a mature 26-year-old woman in this film, which also contains many autobiographical elements of the singer, who made her debut at the age of 8 and has continued to sing about the joys and sorrows of the common people, thereby touching the hearts of the Japanese people.


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