Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance 1974

6.40

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.

1974

Lady Snowblood

Lady Snowblood 1973

7.50

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.

1973

The Face of Another

The Face of Another 1966

7.79

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

1966

Goyokin

Goyokin 1969

7.50

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

1969

None But the Brave

None But the Brave 1965

6.30

American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations. Told through the eyes of the American and Japanese unit commanders, who must deal with an atmosphere of growing distrust and tension between their men.

1965

Girls of the Night

Girls of the Night 1961

6.90

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life.

1961

Escape Zone

Escape Zone 1953

1

Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a beautiful woman with a sad face.

1953

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women 1956

6.70

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

1956

The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest 1973

6.50

Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estranged relationship.

1973

The Whisper of Spring

The Whisper of Spring 1952

1

After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt sweater.

1952

Red Target

Red Target 1972

6.00

A gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer discovers the set-up behind the killing - that a laboratory is being set up by a Nazi organization to capture and train talented youth and that the photographer was about to expose it.

1972

Hairpin Circus

Hairpin Circus 1972

5.60

A retired racing champion, now a driving instructor, gets involved with the speed tribes after impulsively taking to the streets to relive his former glory.

1972

Bitterness of Youth

Bitterness of Youth 1974

6.30

A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.

1974

The Fearless Avenger

The Fearless Avenger 1972

6.80

Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being captured by Yakuza. His life is spared by Boss Juzaburo, in order that the harmony of an important commemoration not be further disturbed. Though now even more of an outcast, Jokichi is asked by another Yakuza boss, Umezo, to guard Oyuki, the wayward daughter of Juzaburo. The tragic consequences of this assignment will lead him into a deadly trap and a final confrontation with Chogoro.

1972

Happiness of Us Alone

Happiness of Us Alone 1961

9.00

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.

1961

A Comedy: The University Around the Corner

A Comedy: The University Around the Corner 1965

1

#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to 25 years later, the students have each settled into their careers and cross paths with Professor Sakai's son, a P.E. teacher (also played by Sakai).

1965

Illusion of Blood

Illusion of Blood 1965

6.20

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

1965

The Maid Story

The Maid Story 1963

1

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.

1963