7.5
Dolls
IMDb: 7.5 2002 114 min
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those ...
6.9
Hungry Soul, Part II
IMDb: 6.9 1956 97 min
A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with ...
7.4
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
IMDb: 7.4 1956 81 min 7 views
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job ...
6.8
The Imperial Navy
IMDb: 6.8 1981 145 min 6 views
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan’s greatest ...
7.5
Tora! Tora! Tora!
IMDb: 7.5 1970 144 min 8 views
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. ...
6.4
None But the Brave
IMDb: 6.4 1965 106 min 7 views
American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive ...
6.2
Adventure in Kigan Castle
IMDb: 6.2 1966 105 min 7 views
Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a ...
8.4
High and Low
IMDb: 8.4 1963 142 min 9 views
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur’s son is ...
7.6
Chûshingura
IMDb: 7.6 1962 207 min 10 views
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim ...
6.3
The Storm of the Pacific
IMDb: 6.3 1960 118 min 8 views
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan’s Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl ...
6.7
The Lovelorn Geisha
IMDb: 6.7 1960 111 min 9 views
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite ...
8
The Bad Sleep Well
IMDb: 8 1960 150 min 9 views
In this loose adaptation of “Hamlet,” illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and ...
6.3
The Human Vapor
IMDb: 6.3 1960 92 min 8 views
A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into ‘The Human Vapour’. He uses his new ...
