
6
Fight of the Gamblers
IMDb: 6 1963 91 min
Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his ...

7
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
IMDb: 7 1963 103 min 1 views
A salaryman’s drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life’s story.

7.3
Foundry Town
IMDb: 7.3 1962 100 min 2 views
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl’s dreams of higher education.

7.5
Sword of the Beast
IMDb: 7.5 1965 85 min 2 views
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha’s Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of ...

7.4
Zatoichi’s Cane Sword
IMDb: 7.4 1967 93 min 2 views
Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged ...

7.2
Black River
IMDb: 7.2 1957 114 min 1 views
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and ...

6.9
I Will Buy You
IMDb: 6.9 1956 111 min 1 views
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

7.5
Tora! Tora! Tora!
IMDb: 7.5 1970 144 min
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. ...

6.5
Horus: Prince of the Sun
IMDb: 6.5 1968 82 min 1 views
Young Horus lives in a mythical Scandinavia of the Iron Age. Recovering the stolen Sword of the Sun from a rock giant, he learns he must travel ...

7.4
Kill!
IMDb: 7.4 1968 114 min 1 views
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a ...

6.5
Illusion of Blood
IMDb: 6.5 1965 105 min 1 views
The ghost of a samurai’s wife takes revenge on her husband.

7.4
Samurai Assassin
IMDb: 7.4 1965 122 min
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of ...

8
An Autumn Afternoon
IMDb: 8 1962 114 min
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the ...

7.7
Pale Flower
IMDb: 7.7 1964 96 min 1 views
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking ...

7.2
Akitsu Hot Springs
IMDb: 7.2 1962 113 min 2 views
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal ...

8.2
Yojimbo
IMDb: 8.2 1961 110 min
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the ...

6.9
Our Marriage
IMDb: 6.9 1962 66 min 1 views
When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

7.5
Pigs and Battleships
IMDb: 7.5 1961 108 min 1 views
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

7.3
Untamed Woman
IMDb: 7.3 1957 121 min 1 views
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his ...

8.1
Tokyo Story
IMDb: 8.1 1953 137 min 2 views
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their ...

7
Ginza Cosmetics
IMDb: 7 1951 87 min 2 views
A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

7.8
Stray Dog
IMDb: 7.8 1949 122 min 1 views
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes ...

6.2
Apostasy
IMDb: 6.2 1948 99 min 1 views
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

7.1
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
IMDb: 7.1 1963 106 min 2 views
In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant’s daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought ...

7.8
The Ballad of Narayama
IMDb: 7.8 1958 98 min 3 views
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced ...