Movies

Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while...

A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of...

Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.

A documentary on Teruo Ishii, the Japanese "King of Cult".

A veteran reporter and a young journalist doggedly pursue clues through sheer persistence and intuition to unravel the mystery behind the sudden...

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat...

On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped...

Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove they didn't steal it.

A tragic love story involving the 5th Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty and a woman who became one of his concubines.

When both a priceless jewel and the daughter of a rich heiress are stolen by a master criminal, Koga and his gang are hired to retrieve both. But a...

A gang of bank robbers plan a big robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the heist for different reasons.

It tells the story of a couple who fall into a trap set up by a sinister organization. One of them is a guy who is framed for the murder of his...

A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and...

When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.

With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pillbox as her weapons, female gambler Okatsu the...

Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a...

Japanese crime film

It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.

An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle...

Based on Ito Hajime's original story, this is the seventh installment in the "Bangaichi" series, adapted jointly by Kamba Fumio and Matsuda Hiroo,...