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poster
Criterion Channel
86
8.3
/15453/
81
/267/
82
/257/
4.3
/21783/
100
/9/
93
/171/
90
/9/

Samurai Rebellion (1967)
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
8.0
/45334/
79
/841/
80
/669/
4.1
/64048/
96
/52/
92
/830/
89
/16/

The Hidden Fortress (1958)
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
8.0
/59620/
78
/1065/
79
/948/
4.3
/110305/
96
/49/
93
/1068/

Throne of Blood (1957)
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
79
7.6
/14514/
75
/317/
76
/299/
3.9
/29821/
94
/16/
89
/222/

Drunken Angel (1948)
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
7.5
/846/
62
/17/
77
/17/
3.7
/632/
80
/82/

Sandakan No. 8 (1974)
A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
71
7.4
/10207/
73
/250/
71
/200/
3.7
/15691/
88
/3983/

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
67
7.3
/7450/
73
/179/
72
/134/
3.7
/10468/
85
/3486/

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers.
poster
Criterion Channel
74
66
7.2
/6370/
70
/103/
71
/138/
3.6
/6878/
83
/6/
79
/84/

The Lower Depths (1957)
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.
poster
The Roku Channel
70
66
6.6
/6084/
69
/237/
71
/176/
3.5
/16721/
80
/15/
64
/101/

Mothra (1961)
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.
poster
Criterion Channel
66
65
6.3
/9460/
64
/349/
65
/277/
2.8
/14713/
85
/26/
72
/479/
61
/8/
cc age 10+

Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
63
7.6
/3588/
73
/64/
76
/102/
3.9
/7795/
83
/577/

Floating Clouds (1955)
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
61
7.7
/2341/
73
/40/
73
/62/
4.0
/4432/
94
/445/

Sound of the Mountain (1954)
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
poster
66
61
7.1
/3027/
74
/254/
71
/170/
3.5
/5826/
38
7.7
/33153/

Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital (2003)
Mouri Kogoro is called to a special case in the ancient capital of Kyoto. There, Conan meets Heiji and they team up once again to solve the case, recover the stolen Healing Buddha statue, and even discover the identity of Heiji's first love.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
59
7.8
/1516/
72
/22/
76
/45/
4.1
/4126/
100
/241/

Two in the Shadow (1967)
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
59
6.7
/4811/
67
/87/
67
/95/
3.3
/8369/
86
/7/
58
/42/

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1952)
A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a hostile checkpoint.
poster
The Roku Channel
61
59
6.2
/8445/
61
/337/
68
/243/
3.2
/23716/
50
/8/
62
/245/

Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world from "Monster Zero". In exchange for borrowing Godzilla and Rodan, the Xiliens offer a cure for cancer. As Glenn investigates, he develops a romance with Miss Namikawa and uncovers the Xilien's true intentions.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
57
7.8
/2437/
78
/68/
77
/50/
4.2
/5637/

Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive events. Highlights include an epic pole-vaulting match between West Germany and America, and the final marathon race through Tokyo's streets. Two athletes are highlighted: Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila, who receives his second gold medal, and runner Ahamed Isa from Chad, representing a country younger than he is.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
56
7.6
/1981/
67
/26/
75
/44/
3.9
/3135/
84
/366/

Repast (1951)
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
poster
54
50
5.7
/11959/
55
/169/
65
/267/
2.8
/7857/
52
/21/
55
/699/
40
/4/

King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)
When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they bargained for when the gigantic ape attacks an unsuspecting village and an enormous octopus.
poster
Criterion Channel
59
47
5.5
/2648/
57
/77/
67
/69/
3.1
/4858/
54
/733/

Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic bomb. Years later a wild boy is discovered wandering the streets of the city alone, born of the immortal heart.
poster
Criterion Channel
55
38
5.6
/1156/
53
/46/
67
/44/
3.0
/2978/
39
/813/

Dogora (1964)
A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.
poster
Plex
54
38
6.0
/1832/
57
/50/
56
/39/
3.0
/2366/
38
/365/

The H-Man (1958)
When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
37
7.5
/1351/
74
/25/
72
/37/
3.7
/1220/

The Rickshaw Man (1958)
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
poster
75
33
7.4
/417/
56
/6/
75
/14/
3.7
/623/
100
/201/

Summer Clouds (1958)
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
poster
72
30
7.5
/420/
71
/15/
69
/12/
3.9
/1032/
67
/205/

The Approach of Autumn (1960)
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery store, and works a local inn. The boy befriends a girl, the daughter of the innkeeper.
poster
69
30
7.1
/939/
71
/14/
69
/24/
3.5
/435/
66
/1078/

Incident at Blood Pass (1970)
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set on stealing shogunate gold that's soon to come over the pass. When the Ronin's assignment becomes clear, to help the gang, he's ordered to kill the inn's residents, including a woman he's rescued from an abusive husband. He's reluctant to murder innocent people; then he learns that the gold shipment is a trap and he's part of a double cross. How he sorts through these divided loyalties tests of his samurai honor, and perhaps of his love for a woman.
poster
Criterion Channel
52
30
5.3
/1080/
50
/54/
56
/34/
2.6
/3353/

Varan (1958)
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, who decides to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.
poster
46
25
4.2
/244/
45
/25/
65
/34/
2.2
/1211/
36
/3237/

Gigantis, the Fire Monster (1959)
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
poster
60
18
7.3
/417/
42
/4/
81
/10/
3.5
/481/
38
/72/

Portrait of Hell (1969)
The story, set in the Heian era, depicts the conflict between Korean painter Yoshihide (Nakadai) and his Japanese patron, the cruel and egotistical daimyo Horikawa (Nakamura). It is based on the 1918 short story Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
16
6.9
/489/
61
/16/
66
/17/
3.5
/513/

Samurai Saga (1959)
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
16
7.1
/412/
66
/9/
69
/10/
3.7
/808/

Wife (1953)
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.
poster
71
11
7.7
/260/
64
/5/
70
/13/
3.7
/297/

A Woman's Life (1963)
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
poster
62
10
7.3
/244/
40
/2/
58
/12/
3.6
/396/

Moment of Terror (1966)
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.
poster
64
10
6.8
/293/
52
/7/
68
/10/
3.5
/329/

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (1970)
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
poster
60
9
6.3
/296/
48
/7/
62
/10/
3.4
/273/

The Last War (1961)
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
poster
?
5.7
/33/
40
/2/
46
/7/
5.2
/1041/

Monkey Punch's Alice (1991)
Jirocho, the don of an expansive crime syndicate, is commanded by his dying father to kill a cyborg in the form of a woman who betrayed him. What follows are various attempts to capture and destroy his target, Alice, ranging from the surreal, the dangerous, and the erotic.
poster
?
6.4
/8/

Three Dolls in College (1959)
The first of eight "Three Dolls" features. In this entry the girls, students at Nichinan University, balance studying for the final exams while falling for the new French professor.
poster
?
10
/1/

A Smell of Money (1965)
Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.
poster
?
6.8
/11/

Company President Travels Abroad (1963)
Executives from a Japanese department store travel to Hawaii to acquire land for expansion but become entangled in romantic distractions and miscommunication. By the time they act, the property is lost to a rival, forcing an abrupt return to Tokyo and uncertain outcomes.
poster
?
6.7
/11/

Playboy President: Part II (1961)
After a promotion brings new professional challenges, a diligent employee is pulled into corporate matchmaking and a high-stakes business conflict over a critical eel supply.
poster
?
6.8
/11/

Playboy President (1961)
A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intended to revive struggling sales.
poster
?
4.8
/8/

Nippon ichi no yakuza otoko (1970)
The eighth installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series.
poster
?
7.0
/7/

Japan's No. 1 Best Man (1967)
The fifth installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series.
poster
?
5.6
/9/

The White Rose of Hong Kong (1965)
Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong Kong, where personal ties and painful secrets unravel a complex web of betrayal. As love, family, and justice collide, Matsumoto must face a truth too deep to escape—and a loss too great to mend.
poster
?
6.8
/11/

Sensation Seekers (1963)
1963 Japanese movie
poster
?
5.9
/14/

社長漫遊記 (1963)
It is the 16th series of the call series with the highest masterpiece among the "President" series. The president of the U. s.solar paint, heitaro Domoto (Morishige), has become completely American, and plans to rationalize the company to the American style and prohibit the company's entertainment. Members of the Taiko Kyushu Branch Company (Ryohei Miki), who were living in the banquet, were hit by a big blow, and the company and the meeting club were very annoying. After that, the president who went to the business trip to Kyushu met with a sexy Geisha (Junko Ikeuchi) on the way to the tour, and he felt like a fool.
poster
?
6.5
/11/

Nippon ichi no gorigan otoko (1966)
The film depicts Ueki's all-around intelligence and how he manages to do difficult jobs for the company without a fixed salary and how he marries Mie Hamamie, the president's daughter, in a well-told story.
poster
?
10
/1/

Kawachi fūten zoku (1968)
1968 film


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