Koreya Senda Movies

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...

Genre: War

Cast: Martin Balsam

Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Kaga

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Shin Saburi

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akihiko Hirata

In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on Earth, using rays to manipulate gravity and...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Koreya Senda

Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A biographical movie about Shinran

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Frankie Sakai

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jūkichi Uno

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bontarō Miake

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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Cast: Shūji Sano

Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"

Genre: Family

Cast: Teruko Kishi

Continuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. Shinran, born of the fading aristocratic class,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōjūrō Kawarasaki

Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a...

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Cast: Ichirō Ryūzaki

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Myron Healey

A film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River".

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masayuki Mori

Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Japanese mystery thriller.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Hisako Yamane

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koreya Senda

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

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...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Kōzō Nomura

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes and a peerless swordsman who...

Genre: History

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.

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Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koreya Senda

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eitarō Ozawa

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

The Glorious Days

Genre: War

Cast: Eitarō Ozawa

"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." ...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junko Ikeuchi

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

A pure love melodrama movie.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa