Haruko Katō Movies

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Minami Takayama

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makiko Esumi

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiromi Go

A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiyo Toake

Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he has been won over by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he is affected by Alzheimer's disease, but his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiyo Toake

Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the con-artists. One day, Goro witnesses a group of men...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara

Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Hada

After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriage seem to suddenly vanish as she finds out that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Fubuki

A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to...

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Cast: Yumiko Nogawa

Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Fuji

A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes of his family, who are estranged from those...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

Saito Masao reminisces on the days of his youth more than 50 years ago and his forbidden love of his older cousin Tamiko. When he was 15, Tamiko...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Seiko Matsuda

While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of outcasts that help her. Having only an encrypted disk...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Noriko Watanabe

A shy, nerdy man, Takeru finds a schoolgirl hooker Lily is unconscious in a Tokyo park, so he decides to bring her home and lock her up in a secret...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taro Yamamoto

Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sawada

Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

LIFE IS JOURNEY is an anthology of four stories about people who live in solitude, but who yearn for togetherness. Each day brings chance meetings...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nene Otsuka

This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes to Berlin to study in the 1880s and falls in love with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiromi Go

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of her friends. Those friends suddenly...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Yoshino Kimura

Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miwa Takada

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Chieko Baisho

Yoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share a past in several senses. It was Ryosuke who walked...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Okuda

Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

Set in Mexico. The love story of an architect and a fashion designer. Both from Japan

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiko Matsuda

Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Yukio Aoshima

Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first sexual experience at a local brothel. Lucky for him, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Seikichi, makes his living fishing from a small boat off the coast of Okinawa. He and his 12-year-old grandson Akira live in a small, tree-lined...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Muneo Uema

Japanese war-era film

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsuruko Baba

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Asano

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Cast: Kin'ya Aikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Genre: Crime

Cast: Takanori Jinnai

Based on the book Heaven and Maiko by Yoshiya Nobuko, it is the story of two girls of different family backgrounds in Osaka.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare," aka Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masakazu Tamura

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

Genre: History

Cast: Yatsuko Tan'ami

Shinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his admiration for her. However, a harsh reality awaits him in...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Goro Noguchi

Based on Shinichi Mori song

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Cast: Shin'ichi Mori

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

After the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled "Shinibana" containing a plan to tunnel into and steal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employee, as she grows through work, love, and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chieko Matsubara

A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the...

Genre: War

Cast: Iain Glen

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi