Eisei Gekijo Popular Movie

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

genus: Drama

cast: Koji Yakusho

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that...

genus: Action

cast: Yukie Nakama

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles...

genus: Drama

cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

genus: Drama

cast: Hiroshi Abe

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town...

genus: Action

cast: Kiichi Nakai

The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble...

genus: Comedy

cast: Kenji Sawada

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no...

genus: Drama

cast: Koji Yakusho

A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with...

genus: Drama

cast: Bae Doona

Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through...

genus: Comedy

cast: Maki Sakai

Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and their slayers is fought. Izumo, a...

genus: Fantasy

cast: Rie Miyazawa

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya,...

genus: Drama

cast: Joe Odagiri

Raised by assassins, Yuki is the last of the Takemikazuchi royal bloodline. A deadly weapon in her own right, she learns the gruesome truth about the...

genus: Action

cast: Yumiko Shaku

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist....

genus: Family

cast: Mirai Shida

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

genus: Crime

cast: Makiko Esumi

Set during the Meiji Restoration period of Edo era Japan, Naoyuki belongs to the 8th generation of the Inoyama family, a wealthy family known for...

genus: Drama

cast: Masato Sakai

A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon...

genus: Drama

cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small seaside town in Japan.

genus: Drama

cast: Mikako Ichikawa

A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain...

genus: Crime

cast: Yosuke Eguchi

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure...

genus: Drama

cast: Lily Franky

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling,...

genus: Fantasy

cast: Ryuhei Matsuda