Nippon Herald Films Popular Movie

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

An evil feudal lord rapes a village girl on her wedding night and proceeds to ruin her and her husband's lives. After she's eventually banished from...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Aiko Nagayama

Giovanni currently lives a dreary life of near non-stop work. At school, his peers ridicule him incessantly, and his employer at work is distant and...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Mayumi Tanaka

In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When...

Genre: Action

Cast: Małgorzata Foremniak

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayumi Ito

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Young assassins Azumi and Nagara continue their mission to prevent a civil war. In their hunt for Masayuki Sanada, who is protected by both an army...

Genre: Action

Cast: Aya Ueto

One summer day, a group of sixth-grade boys have an argument about whether fireworks are round or flat when viewed from different angles and embark...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Megumi Okina

The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

Amechiyo (the banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised as human). This is an operetta which includes...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Zhang Ziyi

An intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chris Marker

A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, and demanded $5 billion yen from the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yuji Oda

A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sekiguchi brings him the story of a woman who has...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi

Love story of a young woman Stella who is dying of leukemia. A man is mistaken for a family member at the hospital and is informed by a doctor the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Johnson

Six young pilots who all volunteered to be Kami-kaze or suicide pilots.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiaki Karasawa

Seigo Yoshioka (Kenji Sakaguchi) is a teacher that became mute after a kendo accident. He feels lost after the accident and eventually decides to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sakaguchi

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi

Karin has lived alone in a secluded mountain village with her consumptive mother since her father died. Her worried grandfather advises her to send...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Fumi Dan

Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first sexual experience at a local brothel. Lucky for him, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi