Japan Movies

Onibaba is a movie starring Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, and Kei Satô. Two women kill samurais and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious...

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a TV movie starring Billie Mae Richards, Burl Ives, and Larry D. Mann. A misfit reindeer and his friends look for a place that will accept them.

A detective is assigned to protect a princess who prophecies the Earth's end with the arrival of a powerful space monster. Mothra and her fairies must persuade Godzilla and Rodan to set aside their differences or face the invader alo

Kaidan is a movie starring Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, and Misako Watanabe. A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.

In part five of the 8-part Shinobi No Mono Ninja film series the heroic ninja Kirigakure Saizo (Raizo Ichikawa, of Sleepy Eyes of Death fame) serves the daimyo Sanada, played by Lone Wolf and Cub star Tomisaburo Wakiyama. They are as

The blind swordsman tries to locate a girl's missing father.

Samurai is a movie starring Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, and Michiyo Aratama. February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the...

This film of the sleepy-eyed ronin series has the red-haired swordsman on his way to the city of Edo when he comes across the scene of a woman in the midst of a knife fight with a man. When he reluctantly and with considered hesitati

During WW2, a platoon of Marines crash-lands on a tiny Pacific island occupied by a small Japanese unit.

In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

Nemuri Kyôshirô: Mashôken is a movie starring Raizô Ichikawa, Michiko Saga, and Machiko Hasegawa. Tsurumatsu, a young boy, is supposed to be a new Lord but he's not really interested, he would rather be a carpenter. So he gets...

The story of Saizo's son, Kirigakure Saisuke, who after seeing his father die at the Battle Of Shimabara, grows up to be an expert ninja.

Ibun Sarutobi Sasuke is a movie starring Hiroshi Aoyama, Jun Hamamura, and Osamu Hitomi. The legendary samurai Sasuke Sarutobi gets caught in a web of political intrigue, deception and espionage during the early 17th century.

Kedamono no ken is a movie starring Mikijirô Hira, Gô Katô, and Shima Iwashita. After killing a counselor of his clan, a fugitive samurai befriends a couple poaching the shogun's gold in the mountains.

Zatôichi sakate giri is a movie starring Shintarô Katsu, Kanbi Fujiyama, and Eiko Taki. The blind masseur and swordsman, Zatoichi, searches for proof an imprisoned man's innocence.

Tôkyô orinpikku is a movie starring Abebe Bikila, Jack Douglas, and Ahmed Issa. Kon Ichikawa examines the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, creating a record of observations that range from the...

After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of

A sailor is desperate for fresh water to drink while adrift on a raft in the sea.

Ken ki is a movie starring Raizô Ichikawa, Michiko Sugata, and Kei Satô. A man of questionable birth peacefully raises flowers, but after he masters a special sword-fighting technique, his life takes a dark turn.

From out of the arctic comes a gigantic flying, fire-breathing turtle that sets its sights on destroying Tokyo.

Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with...a vampire?

Dai-bosatsu tôge is a movie starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, and Yûzô Kayama. Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.

Nemuri Kyôshirô: Tajôken is a movie starring Raizô Ichikawa, Yaeko Mizutani, and Ichirô Nakatani. Princess Kiku, Shogun's daughter, wants revenge on Nemuri Kyoshiro for embarrassing her.

While avoiding the mob and local authorities, a world-weary pornographer finds being a family man the most difficult as he wrestles with his own desires and afflictions.

Tôkyô nagaremono is a movie starring Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, and Hideaki Nitani. After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old...

Daimajin is a movie starring Miwa Takada, Yoshihiko Aoyama, and Jun Fujimaki. A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.

Kaitei daisensô is a movie starring Shin'ichi Chiba, Peggy Neal, and Franz Gruber. A group of surface dwellers comes upon an underwater city ruled by a mad scientist and his amphibious servants.

Furankenshutain no kaijû: Sanda tai Gaira is a movie starring Russ Tamblyn, Kumi Mizuno, and Kenji Sahara. An experimental lab animal called a gargantua escapes from his captors and is suspected to be the creature that is killing...

The hero avenges a band of samurai whose master was unceremoniously assassinated for seeking justice and better conditions for the citizens. The city shall burn for the elite's greed.

A teen searching for his brother stows away on a criminal's boat that shipwrecks on Letchi island, where terrorists have enslaved the Infant Island natives. Discovering Godzilla asleep, they decide to awaken him to liberate the nativ

Taekoesu Yonggary is a movie starring Yeong-il Oh, Jeong-im Nam, and Soon-jae Lee. Earthquakes in central Korea turn out to be the work of Yongary, a prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile that soon goes on a rampage through Seoul.

Jôi-uchi: Hairyô tsuma shimatsu is a movie starring Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, and Gô Katô. The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide...

Koroshi no rakuin is a movie starring Jô Shishido, Mariko Ogawa, and Annu Mari. After a badly done assignment, a hitman finds himself in conflict with his organisation, and one mysterious and dangerous fellow-hitman in particular.

Inspired by the Rankin/Bass cartoon, the evil Dr. Who captures King Kong to dig for Element X when his mechanical doppelganger, Mechani-Kong, is unable to do the task. Kong escapes and soon confronts his mechanical double.

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for

Midaregumo is a movie starring Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa, and Mitsuko Kusabue. A man falls in love with the widow of a man he killed in a car accident. Eventually she falls in love with him in return.

Nemuri Kyôshirô: Onna jigoku is a movie starring Raizô Ichikawa, Miwa Takada, and Yaeko Mizutani. Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict...

Kôshikei is a movie starring Kei Satô, Do-yun Yu, and Fumio Watanabe. A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the...

Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.

Our anti-hero discovers locals who are oppressed, held captive against their will. For the swordsman to succeed, he first must wade through traps and assassins, and a few seductive maidens.

Kiru is a movie starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Etsushi Takahashi, and Yuriko Hoshi. Two ronin - an ex-samurai and an ex-farmer - get caught up in a local official's complex game of murder and betrayal.

Taiyô no ôji: Horusu no daibôken is a movie starring Mikijirô Hira, Etsuko Ichihara, and Eijirô Tôno. A boy with a mythical sword wants to protect a Norse village from an evil ice wizard and his minions, who destroyed his family's...

At the turn of the century, Earth's monsters have been safely rounded up and studied on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleashes the monsters across the world.

Burû firumu no onna is a movie starring Miki Hashimoto, Keisuke Kawatô, and Reo Mizumori. A father's debt to a loan shark leads his wife and daughter to take desperate measures.

A collection of stories dealing with punishment toward women.

Nemuri Kyôshirô: Akujo-gari is a movie starring Raizô Ichikawa, Naoko Kubo, and Shiho Fujimura. Just when you think Kyoshiro's life can't get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and murdering, and leaving notes...

Aliens kidnap two children and take them to another planet for the purpose of getting knowledge from their brains, but Gamera follows and tries to rescue them.

High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation