Japan Movies

The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.

Akage is a movie starring Toshirô Mifune, Shima Iwashita, and Etsushi Takahashi. Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the...

After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appeared to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.

Shinsengumi is a movie starring Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, and Kin'ya Kitaôji. Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to...

A living snowman and a little girl struggle to elude a greedy magician who is after the snowman's magic hat.

Gojira-Minira-Gabara: Oru kaijû daishingeki is a movie starring Kenji Sahara, Machiko Naka, and Tomonori Yazaki. A latchkey child living in the industrial city of Kawasaki confronts his loneliness through his escapist dreams of...

The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.

Bakumatsu is a movie starring Kinnosuke Nakamura, Toshirô Mifune, and Keiju Kobayashi. The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own...

When an ancient statue is moved for display in Expo '70, a giant, vaguely Triceratops-like monster is released. The monster goes to Japan in pursuit of the statue and ends up battling Gamera, the giant flying turtle.

Kage no kuruma is a movie starring Shima Iwashita, Gô Katô, and Mayumi Ogawa. Hamajima is a quiet, hard-working man, whose life changes drastically when he reunites with a lovely childhood friend and her strange little boy.

Yûrei yashiki no kyôfu: Chi wo sû ningyô is a movie starring Kayo Matsuo, Akira Nakao, and Atsuo Nakamura. Keiko and her friend are trying to find her missing brother after he disappeared visiting his girlfriend Yuko.

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affair

Nora-neko rokku: Sekkusu hantaa is a movie starring Meiko Kaji, Rikiya Yasuoka, and Tatsuya Fuji. A street girl gang clashes with racist local gangsters after one of the girls starts dating an Afro-Japanese man.

Kureopatora is a movie starring Chinatsu Nakayama, Kotoe Hatsui, and Tsubame Yanagiya. In order to foil the enemy aliens' "Cleopatra Plan", three people from the future are spiritually sent back to Cleopatra's time to understand the...

A female Yakuza Okayo, also knows as Benten, is on the run from bounty hunters seeking to claim the tattoo on her back.

A mailman reveals the origin of Santa Claus.

Murase is a bodyguard in a yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical they look. They decide to trade places with each other.

After being robbed by a geisha, a ronin warrior carves a bloody path to seek revenge.

An angst-ridden teen dealing with his dysfunctional family hits the streets. The story is inter-cut with various psychedelic, energetic vignettes.

Gishiki is a movie starring Kenzô Kawarasaki, Atsuko Kaku, and Atsuo Nakamura. Upon receiving a shocking telegram from his cousin, a man recounts his early life, as a member of a broad family full of dark secrets that slowly reveal...

A doctor investigates the murders of several women at a lakeside resort. His investigation leads him to believe that a vampire is responsible for the murders. He sets out to track the vampire down.

Funshutsu kigan - 15-sai no baishunfu is a movie starring Aki Sasaki, Hiroshi Saitô, and Makiko Kim. A young girl, already a jaded sexual veteran, embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery to find out the true reasons for her...

Gekido no showashi: Okinawa kessen is a movie starring Keiju Kobayashi, Yûzô Kayama, and Tetsurô Tanba. Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War II's Battle of Okinawa - a massive...

The story of a Ronin (i.e. a masterless samurai) who wanders the countryside of Japan with his small child, having various adventures.

Tenshi no kôkotsu is a movie starring Ken Yoshizawa, Rie Yokoyama, and Yuki Aresa. The movie focuses on the actions of a revolutionary movement.

One woman's search to find the truth about her husband's death in World War II.

A manga artist becomes suspicious of his employers when a garbled message is discovered on tape. As he forms a team to investigate, Godzilla and Anguirus begin their own plan of action.

Trailed by a clan of female ninja, Ogami is paid to assassinate a clan traitor accompanied by three killers known as the Gods of Death.

Gendai yakuza: Hito-kiri yota is a movie starring Bunta Sugawara, Noboru Andô, and Mayumi Nagisa. A yakuza, who has an untamed rage and lack of respect for authority, finds himself leading the remnants of the gang he once belonged...

Masako is a prostitute who works at a bathhouse in downtown Tokyo. She is sexually involved with her neighbor in the next apartment. However, when his friend falls in love with a young woman this creates a problem for all three of th

Shiroi yubi no tawamure is a movie starring Ichirô Araki, Hiroko Isayama, and Gô Awazu. A girl falls for a pickpocketer who gets arrested, so she hooks up with his ex-girlfriend and his ex-cellmate.

In the late Tokugawa period, the Edo government is using Spies from Iga Province to cause the downfall of innocent provincial Daimyo. The Shogun needs to claim the assets of fallen clans in order to boost the failing economies of Edo

Joshû 701-gô: Sasori is a movie starring Meiko Kaji, Rie Yokoyama, and Yayoi Watanabe. After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and...

Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by the yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

After spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards led by the vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs.

Ogami is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin. Gunbei Yagyu, an enemy samurai, happens upon Ogami's son, and sees his chance for revenge.

Goyôkiba is a movie starring Shintarô Katsu, Yukiji Asaoka, and Mari Atsumi. Hanzo Itami is an incorruptible Edo officer who learns that an infamous killer has fled from his island prison. Hanzo begins tracking him down using his...

An inventor creates a humanoid robot named Jet Jaguar that is seized by the undersea nation of Seatopia. Using Jet Jaguar as a guide, the Seatopians send Megalon as vengeance for the nuclear tests that have devastated their society.

Erosu wa amaki kaori is a movie starring Hiroko Isayama, Kaori Momoi, and Maki Kawamura. Yukie, Koichi and Akira are rogues looking for a place to crash. Soon after getting settled, the hippies slip into a communal lifestyle. They...

Kanashimi no beradonna is a movie starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Katsuyuki Itô, and Aiko Nagayama. An evil feudal lord rapes a village girl on her wedding night and proceeds to ruin her and her husband's lives. After she's eventually...

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

Kozure Ôkami: Meifumadô is a movie starring Tomisaburô Wakayama, Michiyo Yasuda, and Akihiro Tomikawa. Five warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each holds a part of information needed to complete the assassination of a mad clan...

Goyôkiba: Kamisori Hanzô jigoku zeme is a movie starring Shintarô Katsu, Keiko Aikawa, and Kazuko Inano. During the currency devaluation by the Edo treasury, officer Hanzo deals with a temple priestess who sells her pupils as...

Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family affiliations prove themselves to be wildly unstable, causing gang conflicts to slowly escalate.

Shurayukihime is a movie starring Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, and Masaaki Daimon. A strikingly beautiful young woman is raised from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

Aiyoku no wana is a movie starring Genjiro Arato, Moeko Ezawa, and Nozomi Yasuda. A delirious roman porno re-imagining of Seijun Suzuki's 'Branded to Kill'. Directed by Atsushi Yamatoya and scripted by Yôzô Tanaka, both 'Branded to...

Joshû sasori: 701-gô urami-bushi is a movie starring Meiko Kaji, Masakazu Tamura, and Yumi Kanei. Once again on the lam, Matsu is helped by a strip club worker who holds a grudge against the detective who's trying to find her.