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.

Battle Troop

1944

Japanese

5.4

♡ 3

Action

Drama

War

Kajirô Yamamoto Director

Masao Mishima as

Masayuki Mori as

Akitake Kôno as

Kôkichi Takada as

Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques. Mikami is posted as a staff officer at a base on an island in the Pacific. Kawakami and Murakami later joins him as the base squardron is reinforced. The enemy task force approaches the island and all three of them attack the fleet, killing themselves in the process.

Alone on the Pacific

1963

Japanese

7.0

♡ 4

Action

Adventure

based on memoir or autobiography

Kon Ichikawa Director

Kôichi Uenoyama as

Sanpei Mine as

Masayuki Mori as Youth's Father

Ruriko Asaoka as Youth's Sister

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning, many unforeseen events will test his determination.

Love New and Old

1961

Japanese

6.6

♡ 1

Drama

Masahiro Shinoda Director

Miyuki Kuwano as

Yûsuke Kawazu as

Masayuki Mori as

Bunta Sugawara as

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

The Eternal Breasts

1955

Japanese

7.7

♡ 4

Kinuyo Tanaka Director

Ryôji Hayama as Akira Ôtsuki

Yôko Sugi as Kinuko

Masayuki Mori as Mori

Yoshiko Tsubouchi as Mrs. Shirakawa

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In the last stage of her life, she meets a young journalist from Tokyo who wants to write a story on her life.

Love Letter

1953

Japanese

7.1

♡ 2

Kinuyo Tanaka Director

Yumi Takano as

Yoshiko Tsubouchi as Michiko's new mother

Masayuki Mori as Reikichi Mayumi

Ranko Hanai as Restaurant owner

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival

1970

Japanese

7.3

♡ 9

79%

Kenji Misumi Director

Masayuki Mori as Dark Lord Yamikubo

Osami Nabe as Mistress Auctioneer

Kunie Tanaka as Packhorse Driver

Tatsuya Nakadai as Ronin

The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours Edo's underground via a rousing onsen fight scene, gambling houses and the gender-bending character of Umeji, before a final, flame-filled conflagration.

Floating Clouds

1955

Japanese

7.6

♡ 12

82%

Action

based on novel or book

Mikio Naruse Director

Fuyuki Murakami as Futsuin no shikensho-chou

Nobuo Kaneko as Futsuin no shoin - Suitou

Masayuki Mori as Kengo Tomioka

Hideko Takamine as Yukiko Koda

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

The Bad Sleep Well

1960

Japanese

8.0

♡ 24

100%

parent child relationship

Thriller

wedding

Akira Kurosawa Director

Kunie Tanaka as Hitman

Takeshi Katô as Itakura

Toshirô Mifune as Kôichi Nishi

Masayuki Mori as Public Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.

Yôkihi

1955

Japanese

7.1

♡ 11

75%

Kenji Mizoguchi Director

Masayuki Mori as Emperor Xuan Zong

Michiko Ai as Honghua

Chieko Murata as Lu-hua

Machiko Kyô as Princess Yang Kwei-fei

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love with her and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets. The ministers misuse their power so much that there is a popular revolt against the Yangs, fueled by An Lushan.

Rashomon

1950

Japanese

♡ 82

98%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Machiko Kyô as Masako Kanazawa

Toshirô Mifune as Tajômaru

Masayuki Mori as Takehiro Kanazawa

Takashi Shimura as Woodcutter

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

1945

Japanese

6.7

♡ 13

86%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Dekao Yokoo as Hidachibo

Akitake Kôno as Ise

Masayuki Mori as Kamei

Sôji Kiyokawa as Togashi's Messenger

A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a hostile checkpoint.

Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two

1945

Japanese

6.0

♡ 3

Akira Kurosawa Director

Ryûnosuke Tsukigata as Gennosuke Higaki

Akitake Kôno as Genzaburo Higaki

Seiji Miyaguchi as Kohei Tsuzaki

Masayuki Mori as Yoshima Dan

A few years after his breakthrough, Sanshiro resumes his path to judo mastery—testing his discipline against an American prizefighter and later facing vengeful karate brothers. As rival schools and public spectacle push him toward violence, he must reconcile strength with restraint and the true spirit of his art.

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

1960

Japanese

8.0

♡ 18

100%

Mikio Naruse Director

Chikako Hosokawa as

Masao Oda as

Hideko Takamine as Keiko Yashiro

Masayuki Mori as Nobuhiko Fujisaki

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.

The Idiot

1951

Japanese

7.1

♡ 11

60%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Toshirô Mifune as Denkichi Akama

Masayuki Mori as Kinji Kameda

Setsuko Hara as Taeko Nasu

Eijirô Yanagi as Tohata

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kameda’s saintly compassion exposes everyone’s wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel.

Ugetsu

1953

Japanese

8.1

♡ 33

100%

93%

Action

based on novel or book

Kenji Mizoguchi Director

Masayuki Mori as Genjurô

Machiko Kyô as Lady Wakasa

Sugisaku Aoyama as Old Priest

Kichijirô Ueda as Shop Owner

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.

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Zen-ma

Older Brother, Younger Sister

Battle Troop

Alone on the Pacific

Love New and Old

The Eternal Breasts

Love Letter

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival

Floating Clouds

The Bad Sleep Well

Yôkihi

Rashomon

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

The Idiot

Ugetsu