Hajime Izu

Turning Point (1994)

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials. ...

The Rocking Horsemen (1992)

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life i ...

Kidou Keiji Jiban: Great Explosion at the Monster Factory of Fear (1989)

Jiban goes into action to save Yoko and several captured children from Doctor Giba's plot of creating the ultimate lifeform. ...

Ningyo Sashichi: The Cat’s Golden Claws of Death (1984)

Sashichi is a dapper and handsome man. He is called a doll Sashichi because he is "a nice man like a doll." On top of that, he is a considerable young boss. This is a story in that Kanda solves the murder spree in Edo where a famous boss of Otamaga pond, S ...

Legend of the Cat Monster (1983)

A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which leads the two to live under the same roof. ...

Battle Anthem (1983)

The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait. ...

The Yoshida School (1983)

Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released, superimposed cast, a group image of real politicians centered on Shigeru Yoshida and political histor ...

This Is Noriko (1981)

Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers took the sedative thalidomide during pregnancy. Tsuji has stunted flipper-like arms amputated at the behes ...

The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979)

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to ...

Flying at Ya', Android Kikaider (1973)

A sinister organization launches a wave of audacious attacks in an attempt to gain world domination. Commanded by the evil Professor Gill, masked androids and fearsome DARK Destructoid monsters terrorize innocent victims and wreak havoc throughout Japan. ...

Kamen Rider vs. Shocker (1972)

Professor Daidōji has developed a gravity machine called the GX Device. Unfortunately, Shocker wants it; so they attack the professor and destroy his laboratory, but come home empty-handed. Shocker's agents find out that the plans for the GX Device are wi ...

The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps (1962)

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5. ...

The Three Treasures (1959)

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has con ...

The Capital of Love (1958)

Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the bar hostess. ...

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1) (1956)

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin. ...

Sudden Rain (1956)

Fumiko and Ryōtarō Namiki's marriage has gone stale, with both constantly arguing over what to do on a day off, or about her cutting out recipes from the newspaper before he finishes reading it. Their animosities are witnessed by Fumiko's niece Ayako, wh ...

The First Kiss (1955)

Portmanteau film about young lovers. ...

My Pistol Is Quick (1954)

Mako Osorubeshi (1954)

The Eagle of the Pacific (1953)

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the b ...

Youth of Heiji Senigata (1953)

Wife (1953)

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is ...

Sunflower Girl (1953)

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that her fellow workers think the women employees should not have to act in such a servile manner. When the wom ...

Today is Payday (1952)

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa ...

Love's Cheerleader (1952)

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals ...

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl (1952)

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her fi ...

The Skin of the South (1952)

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one end, they must contend with the local villagers who balk at the prospect of relocation; on the other, they f ...

Wedding March (1951)

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa ...

Sekidô matsuri (1951)

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki. Very little information availabe. ...

Wakôdo no uta (1951)

Swords and Brocade (1951)

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers. ...

Who Will Judge Me? (1951)

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi ...

Wakai musumetachi (1951)

Red Peony of Night (1950)

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them. ...

Alps Story: The Wild (1950)

1950 Japanese film ...

Listen to the Voices of the Sea (1950)

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The film is located to Burma. It shows the everyday problems of soldiers in contrast of their ideas and the cyni ...

Escape at Dawn (1950)

Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love with a prostitute named Harumi, she convinces him to desert the army and live with her. ...

Escape from Prison (1950)

Stray Dog (1949)

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 undercover, scavenging Tokyo's sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of c ...

The Blue Mountains: Part II (1949)

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later. ...

The Blue Mountains: Part I (1949)

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young man from Tokyo. ...

Utako's Story (1949)

Actress (1947)

During the late Meiji period, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu, a scholar who brought European realism to the Japanese stage. The relationship leads to the end of his marria ...

War and Peace (1947)

A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns. ...