Movies

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...

1961 Japanese movie

Comedy about residents of Shinjuku.

Romantic melodrama about the loves and adventures of Kageyama (Takarada) and his fellow oarsmen at Meikyo University.

A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a...

The third of four "The Surprising Legend of Jirocho" films.

A short musical comedy centered on seven star singers performing their hit songs. A tape recorder has been stolen, and it contains the star...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match...

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 in...

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

4 sisters inherited a sum of money and try to get married

Punch, Pinch, and Sentchi share a dorm room while working as caddies at a country club. Their easygoing routine is disrupted by clashes with wealthy...

During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

Hachigoro, a carpenter living in the Rakugo Tenement, is an honest and skilled craftsman, but he loves sake more than his three daily meals, and had...