Eisei Gekijo Popular Movie

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

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

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

genus: Drama

cast: Hiroshi Abe

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

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 psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.

genus: Drama

cast: Joe Odagiri

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

genus: Drama

cast: Koji Yakusho

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

After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow...

genus: Crime

cast: Yoshio Harada

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

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 lonely schoolboy discovers a block of wood carved into the shape of a human head. Seeking companionship he and the puppet-doll become best...

genus: Horror

cast: Natsumi Okumura

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 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

Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river....

genus: Drama

cast: Kumiko Aso

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his...

genus: Drama

cast: Masatoshi Nagase

Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko keeps everyone at arm's length, whether it's her father and stepmother or...

genus: Drama

cast: Yo Hitoto

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