Isao Hashimoto

A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating subject. The huge tents and life-threatening...

Release : 1980.01.26
Popularity : 3.095

A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and...

Release : 1972.05.25
Popularity : 2.689

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange...

Release : 1991.01.15
Popularity : 2.28

"Young People" is a story about the lives of four brothers and a sister, Sato. After the death of his parents, the older brother, Taro, who works in...

Release : 1968.12.16
Popularity : 2.716

The second film tells about the life of matured brothers and sister Sato. Taro became a foreman. He saves every yen to fulfill his dream of building...

Release : 1969.05.10
Popularity : 0.583

The final part of the trilogy. It is about a younger brother, Suekichi. He learned well the lessons that life taught his older brothers. Therefore,...

Release : 1970.11.28
Popularity : 1.611

By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domen. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have...

Release : 1982.11.26
Popularity : 0.974

Kizaki, who moved to Tokyo from the Kansai region to become a manga artist, is assigned to work at a used electrical appliance store where he works...

Release : 1999.04.24
Popularity : 2.234

Comedy centered on a stripper agency

Release : 1971.07.24
Popularity : 0.442

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the...

Release : 1978.09.23
Popularity : 4.089

Release : 1956.10.16
Popularity : 1.431

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older...

Release : 1975.11.06
Popularity : 1.588

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of...

Release : 1977.10.29
Popularity : 4.801

Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to...

Release : 1978.07.01
Popularity : 3.92

Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to...

Release : 1966.01.15
Popularity : 1.794

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being...

Release : 1976.09.23
Popularity : 1.676

A woman's life is irrevocably altered when a young murderer stumbles into her home.

Release : 1984.06.12
Popularity : 0.876

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship...

Release : 1981.08.08
Popularity : 2.911

The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the...

Release : 1977.12.17
Popularity : 5.267

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

Release : 1981.11.07
Popularity : 3.444

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

Release : 1976.06.19
Popularity : 3.171

One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths....

Release : 1985.11.01
Popularity : 1.736

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and...

Release : 1981.11.07
Popularity : 2.979

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of...

Release : 1978.04.29
Popularity : 4.81

The last judgment.

Release : 1965.05.16
Popularity : 2.041

The Ebara family, a typical middle-class family living in downtown Tokyo. When her mother-in-law sold a mountain, a large amount of 70 million yen...

Release : 1991.11.22
Popularity : 0.69

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a...

Release : 1968.06.22
Popularity : 4.588

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 : 1.313

Release : 1989.04.12
Popularity : 1.247

An epic of love and death that depicts how soldiers and ordinary people lived and fought during the Russo-Japanese War, when Japan's very existence...

Release : 1981.01.07
Popularity : 6.056

In this TV series of the hit 1973 film, Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes shake Japan. Firestorms burn beautiful Japanese cities to the ground. A...

Release : 1974.10.06
Popularity : 6.569