Daiei Film Scannán Coitianta

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of...

Seánra: Crime

Caitheadh: Toshirō Mifune

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lurks some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and...

Seánra: Horror

Caitheadh: Haruhiko Kato

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...

Seánra: Fantasy

Caitheadh: Machiko Kyō

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the...

Seánra: Drama

Caitheadh: Emmanuelle Riva

In 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is falsely accused of having an affair with the best...

Seánra: Drama

Caitheadh: Kazuo Hasegawa

A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the...

Seánra: Crime

Caitheadh: Koji Yakusho

The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Seánra: Drama

Caitheadh: Machiko Kyō

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form....

Seánra: Thriller

Caitheadh: Eiji Funakoshi

A strange meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect-like "Legion" creatures bent on colonizing the Earth. When the military fails to...

Seánra: Fantasy

Caitheadh: Toshiyuki Nagashima

As a massive alien craft heads to Earth to do evil, three good and powerful superwomen befriend a young boy who has a special connection to Gamera. ...

Seánra: Science Fiction

Caitheadh: Mach Fumiake

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one...

Seánra: Action

Caitheadh: Yuriy Solomin

In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon...

Seánra: War

Caitheadh: Ayako Wakao

With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an...

Seánra: Fantasy

Caitheadh: Ai Maeda

In medieval Japan, a woman and his children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.

Seánra: Drama

Caitheadh: Kinuyo Tanaka

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...

Seánra: Drama

Caitheadh: Tatsuo Matsumura

When a giant stone statue on Wester Island is disturbed, the legendary monster Jiger appears and heads for Japan. Gamera tries to stop this new...

Seánra: Action

Caitheadh: Tsutomu Takakuwa

A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera...

Seánra: Action

Caitheadh: Eiji Funakoshi

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring...

Seánra: Adventure

Caitheadh: Shintarō Katsu

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in...

Seánra: Adventure

Caitheadh: Shintarō Katsu

Two young boys sneak aboard a spaceship and find themselves whisked away to the mysterious planet Terra. There, they encounter Gamera's old foe Gyaos...

Seánra: Adventure

Caitheadh: Nobuhiro Kajima