Japan Movies

Gekitotsu! Satsujin ken is a movie starring Shin'ichi Chiba, Goichi Yamada, and Yutaka Nakajima. After failing to reach a deal with her enemies, a mercenary karate master decides to protect the daughter of a recently deceased oil...

Goyôkiba: Oni no Hanzô yawahada koban is a movie starring Shintarô Katsu, Kô Nishimura, and Mako Midori. After extracting information by raping a ghost, Hanzo uncovers a plot among high officials to steal the shogunate's gold and...

An Okinawan prophecy appears to foretell Earth's destruction at the hands of Godzilla, only for the true Godzilla to reveal his doppelganger as a mechanical alien weapon.

Kozure Ôkami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigorô is a movie starring Tomisaburô Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, and Junko Hitomi. In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan...

Satsujin ken 2 is a movie starring Shin'ichi Chiba, Claude Gagnon, and Yôko Ichiji. Mercenary karate master Tsurugi gets mixed up in a plot by the American mafia to take over the karate dojos in Asia, aided by a corrupt dojo master.

To avoid a death sentence for her prior acts of bloodshed, the vengeful swordswoman Lady Snowblood is conscripted by the Japanese Secret Police to assassinate political dissidents.

Jingi naki tatakai: Kanketsu-hen is a movie starring Seizô Fukumoto, Nobuo Kaneko, and Jô Shishido. While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up...

A teacher assumes a position at a school that's run by a vampire.

Onna hissatsu ken is a movie starring Etsuko Shihomi, Shin'ichi Chiba, and Asao Uchida. A young martial artist is on a mission to rescue her brother who's being held captive by a sadistic drug lord.

Sukeban: Tamatsuki asobi is a movie starring Yûko Kanô, Ryôko Ema, and Noboru Shiraishi. Released from reform school, the Girl Boss (Yuko Kano) and her girl gang enter in conflict with another girl gang who are allied to the...

Ikenie fujin is a movie starring Naomi Tani, Nagatoshi Sakamoto, and Terumi Azuma. A woman must endure an extreme ritual when her ex-husband, who has recently escaped from jail, kidnaps her.

Gyakushû! Satsujin ken is a movie starring Shin'ichi Chiba, Reiko Ike, and Kôji Wada. Mercenary karate master Tsurugi is hired to retrieve a cassette tape which holds a very sensitive recording of governmental corruption. A back and...

Datsugoku Hiroshima satsujinshû is a movie starring Hiroki Matsukata, Tomisaburô Wakayama, and Naoko Ôtani. Masayuki Ueda is sent to prison for murder, but is unable to be contained for long.

Onna hissatsu ken: Kiki ippatsu is a movie starring Etsuko Shihomi, Tamayo Mitsukawa, and Michiyo Bandô. This time Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by...

American private-eye Harry Kilmer returns to Japan to rescue a friend's kidnapped daughter from the clutches of the Yakuza.

Jingi no hakaba is a movie starring Tetsuya Watari, Tatsuo Umemiya, and Yumi Takigawa. A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio...

Mekagojira no gyakushu is a movie starring Katsuhiko Sasaki, Tomoko Ai, and Akihiko Hirata. Attempts to salvage Mechagodzilla are thwarted by a new monster. This causes an Interpol investigation that uncovers the work of a shunned...

Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba is WOLFGUY, the only survivor of a clan of werewolves who relies on his feral, full-moon-activated superpowers to solve mysterious crimes. One night, a bizarre and bloody death in the Tokyo streets plunges him

Acting boss Hirotani of the Ohara gang uses his friendship with corrupt cop Kuno to usurp a staged land deal that rival yakuza gang Kawade had arranged through local politicians. Open warfare erupts between the two gangs.

Criminals plant a bomb on a high-speed train. It will explode when the train slows down, unless a ransom is paid.

Dersu Uzala is a movie starring Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, and Mikhail Bychkov. The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.

The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a movie starring Yûichirô Miura and Douglas Rain. This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effort to ski down the world's tallest mountain.

When Koryu's childhood friend Shurel is abducted by gangsters, the desperate young woman recruits a female martial artist and a tough-as-nails stranger to join her for a dangerous rescue mission.

Sonny Chiba plays the character referred to as "Mr Soh", who is based on the true life founder of Shorinji Kempo, Doshin So. Mr Soh has been acting as a secret agent in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation. He is first seen spyin

Ai no korîda is a movie starring Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, and Aoi Nakajima. A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.

Although not an official sequel (Shihomi plays a different character), the film is often referred to as a sequel to the series. Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. In o

Tokugawa onna keibatsu-emaki: Ushi-zaki no kei is a movie starring Yûsuke Kazato, Rena Uchimura, and Akira Shioji. Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1. During a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori...

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.

In 1977, the film was purchased and colorized by Luigi Cozzi in a terrible way of an old negative print. When American reporter Steve Martin investigates a series of mysterious disasters off the coast of Japan, he comes face to face

Hokuriku dairi sensô is a movie starring Hiroki Matsukata, Yumiko Nogawa, and Shin'ichi Chiba. A Yakuza group from Osaka with dreams of national dominance moves into the snowy Hokuriku region, sparking a bloody turf war with local...

Hausu is a movie starring Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, and Kumiko Ohba. A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.

Shiawase no kiiroi hankachi is a movie starring Ken Takakura, Chieko Baishô, and Kaori Momoi. Three complete strangers embark on a road-trip to Hokkaido.

Erosu gakuen: Kando batsugun is a movie starring Asami Ogawa, Asami Morikawa, and Jun Aki. A shady male student transfers into a high school full of nubile young schoolgirls. He has his way with most of the female student body on...

Yatsuhaka-mura is a movie starring Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Mayumi Ogawa, and Tsutomu Yamazaki. The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors.

Wakusei daisenso is a movie starring Kensaku Morita, Yûko Asano, and Ryô Ikebe. Earth is attacked by alien spacecraft from Venus. But a Japanese scientist has constructed a space craft, the Gohten, with which he may save humanity.

A thug is released after fifteen years in prison for the murder of a yakuza gang boss. Things were never going to be simple and bygones were never going to be bygones of course, but to make matters more complicated the murdered boss

Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman is a movie starring Katsuji Mori, Isao Sasaki, and Kazuko Sugiyama. A 'movie' version of several Gatchaman episodes.

Dan Oniroku bara no nikutai is a movie starring Naomi Tani, Ako, and Akira Takahashi. Naomi Tani plays Ritsuko , a popular madame of a nightclub. But, ever since her gangster husband got caught and imprisoned, her life has taken a...

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe.

Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari is a movie starring Ken Ogata, Rentarô Mikuni, and Chôchô Miyako. Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run.

Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.

Yomigaeru kinrô is a movie starring Yûsaku Matsuda, Jun Fubuki, and Kei Satô. Yusaka Matsuda stars as a seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salary man who leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of...

A young couple, meeting for a tryst at the site of a brutal rape/murder, witness another murder and have to decide whether to turn the killer in.

A dashing thief, his gang of desperadoes and an intrepid policeman struggle to free a princess from an evil count's clutches, and learn the hidden secret to a fabulous treasure that she holds part of a key to.

Tsigoineruwaizen is a movie starring Yoshio Harada, Naoko Ôtani, and Kisako Makishi. A surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in...

Kagemusha is a movie starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, and Ken'ichi Hagiwara. A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to...

When the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo falls in love with a barmaid and quickly loses his rebellious ideals, the rest of the gang feels betrayed. Especially the reputedly troubled kid Ken revolts against his former