7.2
Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage
IMDb: 7.2 1966 82 min 8 views
Zatoichi’s trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent ...
6
Foujita
IMDb: 6 2015 126 min 10 views
A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and ...
7
Villain
IMDb: 7 2010 139 min 7 views
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services ...
7.2
Letter from the Mountain
IMDb: 7.2 2002 128 min 15 views
Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.
7.2
The Village
IMDb: 7.2 1976 127 min 10 views
This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead ...
6.2
The Far Road
IMDb: 6.2 1977 114 min 8 views
Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad ...
7.2
Rhapsody in August
IMDb: 7.2 1991 98 min 10 views
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for ...
6.4
47 Ronin
IMDb: 6.4 1994 129 min 9 views
Kon Ichikawa’s retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), ...
7.3
Madadayo
IMDb: 7.3 1993 134 min 11 views
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the ...
6.5
The Oil-Hell Murder
IMDb: 6.5 1992 115 min 11 views
The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents.
6.8
Basara: Princess Goh
IMDb: 6.8 1992 142 min 13 views
Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to ...
6.4
War and Youth
IMDb: 6.4 1991 112 min 9 views
An auto repairman’s daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man ...
7.7
Dreams
IMDb: 7.7 1990 119 min 10 views
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
6.8
Boiling Point
IMDb: 6.8 1990 96 min 9 views
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. ...
8.2
Ran
IMDb: 8.2 1985 160 min 9 views
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century ...
7
Demon Pond
IMDb: 7 1979 124 min 10 views
Outside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Their story is of revenge, tragedy, and the power of ...
6.8
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
IMDb: 6.8 1978 112 min 10 views
Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence ...
6.7
Tora-san’s Runaway
IMDb: 6.7 1970 88 min 10 views
After an encounter with a dying yakuza’s son and at his sister Sakura’s urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and ...
8.6
Harakiri
IMDb: 8.6 1962 135 min 10 views
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a ...
6.9
Bullet Ballet
IMDb: 6.9 1998 87 min 12 views
After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.
7.9
The Face of Another
IMDb: 7.9 1966 124 min 17 views
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.