Aki Takejo

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should...

Release : 1983.04.29
Popularity : 11.792

A movie starring Meijin Takahashi, the God of Famicom. Based on the Hacchaki Sensei manga.

Release : 1987.01.01
Popularity : 0.526

Release : 1979.02.24
Popularity : 0.298

Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small...

Release : 1985.08.31
Popularity : 1.966

Release : 1987.12.26
Popularity : 0.717

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.

Release : 1987.07.11
Popularity : 0.827

With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the friendship between a man who gambles and a man who lives in...

Release : 2004.02.14
Popularity : 1.184

If you loved movies such as Shonen Merikensack and GS Wonderland, then this one, which predates the former, will impress you as well. The story is...

Release : 2003.01.01
Popularity : 0.853

Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori was an official selection at the 5th Shanghai International Film Festival...

Release : 2002.02.09
Popularity : 0.914

Release : 1977.03.19
Popularity : 0.62

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which...

Release : 2014.01.25
Popularity : 7.139

Release : 1981.08.08
Popularity : 0.871

The comical battles between a handsome hoodllum, part-time handyman/problem solver and an ugly yakuza. (From a George Akiyama manga.)

Release : 1994.02.11
Popularity : 3.062

While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life...

Release : 2006.05.27
Popularity : 11.225

A young woman aspires to be a motorboat racing champion.

Release : 1988.05.14
Popularity : 0.489

Master director Sadao Nakajima brings to life the adventures of Shohachi, a ronin (masterless samurai) searching for his father's enemy. O-Tama, the...

Release : 1987.04.30
Popularity : 1.507

Release : 1977.12.24
Popularity : 0.954

Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown.

Release : 1983.11.12
Popularity : 1.883

It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following...

Release : 1977.08.27
Popularity : 1.394

Kunio Shibano was bankrupted. He visits a snowland spa area to commit suicide. But he meets Geisha Moeko, and she gives him power to face life one...

Release : 2002.01.19
Popularity : 1.805

Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.

Release : 1992.10.02
Popularity : 1.278

Oshin comes from a family of poor rice farmers. Her father and brother must work in the fields and her grandmother and mother, who is expecting...

Release : 1984.03.17
Popularity : 1.273

A former assassin is drawn into a conspiracy which leads him to return to his old ways, endangering his brother who suspects that something is...

Release : 1997.03.01
Popularity : 0.882

Six year old Momoko and Motoharu are turned suddenly into High school students. And more than that they have now psychic powers.

Release : 1985.07.06
Popularity : 1.141

Biwako is a vain, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder. Realizing that the very public life of the woman makes their sole witness...

Release : 1997.09.27
Popularity : 3.308

A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.

Release : 1996.06.15
Popularity : 3.3

A high school boy with violent impulsive tendencies begins a troubled relationship with an older woman he sees at a funeral.

Release : 1977.10.29
Popularity : 0.711

Middle-aged farmer Noda Masao (Daichi Yasuo) is a good, honest man, but his attempts for marriage have all met with failure. Through a friend, Masao...

Release : 2006.05.13
Popularity : 0.915

After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.

Release : 1980.12.27
Popularity : 2.583

A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.

Release : 1989.08.05
Popularity : 1.135

Release : 1989.04.08
Popularity : 2.297

Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated,...

Release : 1983.12.28
Popularity : 2.077

This film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue, which tells the story of a comedian who teams up with a strange man he...

Release : 1978.03.21
Popularity : 0.798

Release : 1997.12.29
Popularity : 1.579

This is the story of a young mother, Kitayama Nazuna, and her son Taiyo from Ohma, a small town at the tip of a peninsula in Aomori. Taiyo's father,...

Release : 2000.04.03
Popularity : 44.923

Release : 1983.02.19
Popularity : 51.909

"Don't pity me, just give me money." A smart little girl, Suzu, for the sake of her beloved sick mother, has no choice but to attempt all ways to...

Release : 1994.04.16
Popularity : 13.561