A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition.

Apostasy

1948

Japanese

6.2

♡ 2

Action

based on novel or book

buraku discrimination

Keisuke Kinoshita Director

Eijirô Tôno as

Kappei Matsumoto as

Jûkichi Uno as Ginnosuke Tuchiya

Ichirô Sugai as Keinosuke Kazama

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

Chi wa kawaiteru

1960

Japanese

7.1

♡ 3

Yoshishige Yoshida Director

Ichirô Sugai as

Hiroshi Takemura as

Kaneko Iwasaki as Ikuyo

Masao Oda as Kanai

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own advantage by turning the incident into an advertising campaign. With the success of the campaign, however, he is no longer a desperate man pointing a gun to his head, but a potential leader who wishes to take advantage of his failed suicide.

A Man's Crest: We Kill

1965

Japanese

6.7

♡ 4

Action

Crime

yakuza

Motomu Ida Director

Ichirô Sugai as

Masako Izumi as

Hideki Takahashi as

Eiji Gô as

As a drifter Yakuza boss who might as well walk on water by all the good deeds he does and always trying non-violent/honorable solutions first...gets to finally draw his blade and get in touch with his old friend, Murder.

A Geisha

1953

Japanese

7.6

♡ 6

100%

teacher student relationship

Kenji Mizoguchi Director

Ayako Wakao as Eiko

Seizaburô Kawazu as Kusuda

Ichirô Sugai as Saeki

Eitarô Shindô as Sawamoto

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve their professional integrity, must face the selfishness and ambition of several petty people.

Mr. Pu

1953

Japanese

6.4

♡ 3

Comedy

Drama

Kon Ichikawa Director

Kamatari Fujiwara as

Ichirô Sugai as

Fuyuki Murakami as

Eiko Miyoshi as

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Hazardous Graduation

1970

Japanese

5.2

♡ 1

Action

Comedy

Crime

Yukihiro Sawada Director

Hiroshi Tachikawa as

Seizaburô Kawazu as

Ichirô Sugai as

Yuki Jôno as

Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.

Gamera vs. Barugon

1966

Japanese

5.1

♡ 6

44%

Noriaki Yuasa Director

Ichirô Sugai as Dr. Matsushita

Takuya Fujioka as Dr. Sato

Yûzô Hayakawa as Kawajiri

Kôji Fujiyama as Onodera

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.

Early Summer

1951

Japanese

8.0

♡ 23

100%

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Toyo Takahashi as Nobu Tamura

Setsuko Hara as Noriko Mamiya

Ichirô Sugai as Shukichi Mamiya

Kuniko Igawa as Takako

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

A Story from Chikamatsu

1954

Japanese

8.0

♡ 16

Kenji Mizoguchi Director

Shinobu Araki as

Ichirô Sugai as Gembei

Eitarô Shindô as Ishun

Kôichi Katsuragi as Priest

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.

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Killers on Parade

Apostasy

Chi wa kawaiteru

A Man's Crest: We Kill

A Geisha

Mr. Pu

Hazardous Graduation

Gamera vs. Barugon

Early Summer

A Story from Chikamatsu