Kazuo Kitamura Movies

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

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yukie Nakama

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...

Genre: War

Cast: Martin Balsam

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his family without running water or electricity. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shoichi Ozawa

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kō Nishimura

The biggest crisis has come to Matsushita, a shootist who has passed through numerous shrines!

Genre: Action

Cast: Toru Nakamura

Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Junya Kato

Temari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her little brother.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masakazu Tamura

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yu Aoi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sen Yamamoto

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kenji Sawada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takatarô Kataoka

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Cast: Mayumi Ogawa

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Cast: Jiro Okazaki

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kanako Higuchi

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Tanaka

The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the...

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Cast: Mayumi Ogawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Kayama

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

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

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Cast: Chiyoko Honma

A woman in a bright green coat, Mizue (Toda Naho), gets off the bus at Shikaoi Town in Hokkaido. She has followed her former salsa dance partner,...

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Cast: Naho Toda

Documentary on baseball player Shigeo Nagashima

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kazuo Kitamura

In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Noboru Nakaya

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shigeru Izumiya

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuo Nakamura

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Hiromi, attends junior high school in Tokyo. The combination of getting bullied on campus and her fathers death causes her to stop attending school....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mikako Tabe

Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the family. She fell in love with her language...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Kazuo Kitamura

Traditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for amateur singers along with a confused teenager...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shigeru Muroi

A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposite of carefree, irresponsible...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see his girlfriend Yukiko but gets picked up for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroshi Inuzuka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

Documentary about Japanese film director Shohei Imamura.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shōhei Imamura

Richness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoko Ogawa

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masako Izumi

A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find...

Genre: History

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noboru Nakaya

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroko Yakushimaru

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

The plight of U.S. Army deserters from Vietnam on the run in Japan, centering on the culture clash between the troubled Americans and the Japanese...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keith Sykes

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masumi Harukawa

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jūkichi Uno

“I like shady dealings,” purrs undercover superspy Yabuki en route to infiltrating a sadistic, trigger-happy gang of international jewel...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

This is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of earlier efforts, and concentrates on an excellent...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to avenge his father's death continues. His discovery of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

When her husband is betrayed by his fellow yakuza and jailed, his wife takes over and fights to prevent his expulsion from the clan.

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Cast: Reiko Takashima

Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

A woman works as a prostitute and attendant to make a living at a bathhouse. She is athletic and is an avid runner. She has met and adopted a white...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reiko Nanjo

By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shōhei Imamura

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Ogata

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kaori Torii

Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

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

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Cast: Kyôhei Shibata

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

Psychological noir drama involving the tangled web of a disgraced yakuza, an innocent school girl, a blackmailed singer, and a corrupt lawyer.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Japanese crime film.

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

Nakazo is forced by his foster mother, Shun, to practice dance intensively. He is bullied in the Kabuki world, and worries about his future as an...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ichikawa Ebizo XI