Search

7.3

♡ 9

95%

82%

based on novel or book

Kon Ichikawa Director

Eiji Funakoshi as Heima Kadokura

Eijirô Yanagi as Hiromi-ya

Raizô Ichikawa as Hirutaro

Ayako Wakao as Namiji

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

Black Test Car

1962

7.1

♡ 6

Kichijirô Ueda as

Kenji Ôyama as

Ichirô Sugai as

Eiji Funakoshi as Kimio Hiraki

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Bonchi

1960

6.8

♡ 4

Kon Ichikawa Director

Eiji Funakoshi as Kihei

Raizô Ichikawa as Kikuji

Ayako Wakao as Ponta

Isuzu Yamada as Sei

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.

Jirôchô Fuji

1959

6.9

♡ 3

History

Kazuo Mori Director

Eiji Funakoshi as

Raizô Ichikawa as Kira no Nikichi

Machiko Kyô as Okatsu

Ayako Wakao as Okiku

Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.

Blind Beast

1969

7.0

♡ 9

100%

Mako Midori as Aki / Model

Eiji Funakoshi as Michio / sculpter

Noriko Sengoku as Michio's Mother

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in world where sight is replaced by touch.

Older Brother, Younger Sister

1953

7.2

♡ 5

based on novel or book

older brother younger sister

extramarital affair

pregnancy

rural area

sibling relationship

Mikio Naruse Director

Masayuki Mori as Inokichi - the Brother

Eiji Funakoshi as Kobata

Machiko Kyô as Mon

Zenji Yamada as Toyogorô

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.

The Outcast

1962

6.9

♡ 3

95%

based on novel or book

buraku discrimination

Kon Ichikawa Director

Eiji Funakoshi as Keinoshin Kazama

Shiho Fujimura as Oshiho

Rentarô Mikuni as Rentaro Inoko

Raizô Ichikawa as Ushimatsu Segawa

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination.

Tora-san's Rise and Fall

1975

7.0

♡ 5

Yôji Yamada Director

Eiji Funakoshi as Kenjiro Hyodo

Ruriko Asaoka as Lily

Kaneko Iwasaki as Nobuko

Hisao Dazai as Umetaro

Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora-san.

Ruten no ôhi

1960

6.7

♡ 6

Kinuyo Tanaka Director

Eiji Funakoshi as Futetsu

Sadako Sawamura as Kazuko Sugawara

Tetsuya Watanabe as military engineer B

Machiko Kyô as Ryûko Korinkakura

Pu Zhe, the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko the daughter of an aristocratic family. To the surprise of all, a deep love between Pu Zhe and Ryuko develops and is put to the test when Japan loses the war.

Afraid to Die

1960

6.4

♡ 7

63%

Crime

yakuza

Keizô Kawasaki as Shoichi Koizumi

Eiji Funakoshi as Susumu Aikawa

Ayako Wakao as Yoshie Koizumi

Jun Negami as Yusaku Sagara

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of his recently deceased father, boss of the Asahina clan. But their exit proves more difficult than planned when their rival clan steps in to exact revenge.

Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro haibisukasu no hana tokubetsu-hen

1997

6.2

♡ 5

Yôji Yamada Director

Mieko Suzuki as Kayo

Eiji Funakoshi as Kenjiro Hyodo

Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo

Hisao Dazai as Umetaro Shacho

Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying at budget hotels, his thoughts turn to Tora-san.

Saikô shukun fujin

1959

6.8

♡ 2

Eiji Funakoshi as Ichiro Mihara

Ayako Wakao as Kyoko Nonomiya

Seiji Miyaguchi as Rintaro Nonomiya

Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Saburo Mihara

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...

The Graceful Brute

7.4

Yûzô Kawashima Director

Eiji Funakoshi as Eisaku Kamiya, the tax collector

Manamitsu Kawabata as Minoru, Tokizo's son

Chôchô Miyako as Yuki

Ayako Wakao as Yukie Mitani, the agent's accountant

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.

Bridge of Japan

1956

6.7

♡ 4

Romance

Kon Ichikawa Director

Ayako Wakao as Ochise

Eiji Funakoshi as Shinpachiro Kasahara

Eijirô Yanagi as Shinpachiro Kasahara

Ryûji Shinagawa as Shinso Kuzuki

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead, Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that transpires as two geisha, Oko and Kiyoha fight for the top spot in Nihonbashi, the pinnacle of the Tokyo geisha world. Nihonbashi is an elegant, if steely, exposition of manners. The young doctor, Shinzo Katsuragi, is the object of affection for both women, but appears to be more the choice reward for the plotting and thieving of these two early modern superwomen, than a lover they swoon over.

Gammera the Invincible

1966

English

5.0

♡ 3

22%

Noriaki Yuasa Director

Alan Oppenheimer as Dr. Contrare

Eiji Funakoshi as Dr. Hidaka

Dick O'Neill as Gen. O'Neill

John Baragrey as J.T. Standish

An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of years of hibernation.

Gamera: The Giant Monster

1965

5.3

♡ 6

Noriaki Yuasa Director

Eiji Funakoshi as Dr. Hidaka

Shunji Sayama as Fish Seller B

Kenji Ohba as Self-Defense Force Soldier B

Kôji Fujiyama as U.S. Arctic Base Commander

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 wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera's rampage.

Swastika

1964

6.8

♡ 7

Yûzô Hayakawa as

Yûsuke Kawazu as Eijirô Watanuki

Eiji Funakoshi as Kôtarô Kakiuchi

Ayako Wakao as Mitsuko Tokumitsu

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

Gamera vs. Guiron

1969