Fuyuki Murakami Movies

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

The Iron Cross Army are sabotaging oil-tankers with the help of their monster, the Sea-Devil, a semi-mechanical anthropomorphic swordfish with an...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shinji Tôdô

In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Kenji Sahara

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

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Cast: Reiko Dan

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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Cast: Ken Uehara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūzō Kayama

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He is aided by a group of misfits who must team together...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masahiro Motoki

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of the original Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version, "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" (1956),...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Raymond Burr

1958 Japanese movie

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Yoshio Tsuchiya

When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Seizaburō Kawazu

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

1950s Japanese comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

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...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Nick Adams

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

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Akira Takarada

Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kenji Sahara

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Theatrical version of episode 17 of Ultra Q TV series.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Kenji Sahara

Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masahiro Motoki

Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Rica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It's been a very happy time for Rica; the only dark spot being an accident she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoyo Harada

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shinji Yamada

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

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Takashi Shimura

Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of holding the weather trackers as hostages and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A 1948 Japanese film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Usami

During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Raymond Burr

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Cast: Shinji Yamada

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fubuki Koshiji

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoko Aoyama

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

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Cast: Akira Takarada

An Ishiro Honda film.

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Cast: Akihiko Hirata

An Ishiro Honda film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Children born with special power. They seek blood for eternal life. And tonight, the victims ...!

Genre: Horror

Cast: Maiko Kawakami

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Risa Tachibana

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese...

Genre: War

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Takarada

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

Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoshirô Otani

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

The third instalment in the Shacho Series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Raymond Burr

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Miwako Fujitani