The Face of Another

The Face of Another 1966

7.80

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

1966

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

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

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

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

Girls of the Night

Girls of the Night 1961

6.90

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

1961

Doterai Man

Doterai Man 1975

9.00

Business is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon starring Teruhiko Saigo. Set in a wholesaler town in Osaka, it depicts the activities of the main character Takezo Yamashita who repels adversity with a man's stubbornness and guts.

1975

Hymn to a Tired Man

Hymn to a Tired Man 1968

7.80

Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming.

1968

Bot-chan

Bot-chan 1953

10.00

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

1953

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

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

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

Death on the Mountain

Death on the Mountain 1961

6.50

Three bankers, out on holiday, climb the Japanese Alps. One dies under mysterious circumstances, and later it is suggested that perhaps the man was murdered.

1961

Kigeki ekimae bentô

Kigeki ekimae bentô 1961

1

Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for advice from her childhood friends Kintaro, a textile manufacturer, and Magosaku, an entrepreneur, about a big-shot from Osaka who wants to invest in her shop. However, Kintaro and Magosaku suspect that things are not what they seem...

1961

Illusion of Blood

Illusion of Blood 1965

6.20

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

1965

Slaughter in the Snow

Slaughter in the Snow 1973

6.00

In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter, has not yet fully revenged the death of his wife and son. He searches for Kunisada Chuji, who in turn has hired the knife-throwing Windmill Kobunji to kill him. Kobunji and Jokichi meet in the winter, near Sasago Pass, when both have rescued women: Jokichi has saved the lute-playing Oyae whose clan and whose lover want her dead; Kobunji has rescued Oharu, a well-born woman married to an innkeeper. Is this rescue a whim or something deeper? And why does Jokichi become the consumptive Kobunji's protector? What ultimately will Jokichi do about Oyae?

1973

Room for Let

Room for Let 1959

6.00

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.

1959

Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi

Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi 1959

1

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.

1959