Keiju Kobayashi

A woman is discovered strangled inside a car, and Inspector Muta of the Yamashita police station hurries to the scene! The relationship between ...

Yawara Inokuma is a girl who aspires to an ordinary life but due to her innate talent is forced to practice judo by her authoritarian ...

Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, ...

Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding ...

Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several ...

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 ...

This tremendous blockbuster hit from 1970, showing the rise to power of Tojo Hideki, is perhaps the most important film to come out of Japan ...

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president’s daughter.

The president learns that the company’s biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

Second Instalment of the Shacho series

The third instalment in the Shacho Series.

A husband and wife’s pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) ...

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages ...

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In ...

The Kohayakawa family is thrown into distress when childlike father Manbei takes up with his old mistress, in one of Ozu’s most deftly modulated ...

Originally released in Japan as “The Return of Godzilla” in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled “Godzilla ...

Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been ...