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In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki

Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Masami Nagasawa

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiji Sada

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marlon Brando

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Akira Takarada

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Numasaki

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marlon Brando

The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Ryan

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.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōko Iida

Set in the 1950's, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied the team are stationed at the Showa Base in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takuya Kimura