Country: Japan

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Akira Ishihama · Shima Iwashita

Synopsis Harakiri (1962) follows Tsugumo Hanshirō, a destitute rōnin, who arrives at the estate of the Iyi clan requesting to commit ritual suicide (seppuku) in their courtyard. As the clan prepares for the ceremony, they recount a similar incident involving another...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Kyôko Kagawa · Yutaka Sada · Takashi Shimura

Synopsis It is the story of Gondo, a shoe company executive (Toshirô Mifune) planning a boardroom intrigue to gain control of the company. He has raised the capital for his plan, when word comes that his son has been kidnapped for...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Yoshio Inaba · Seiji Miyaguchi

Synopsis In Seven Samurai (1954), a small farming village in 16th-century Japan is repeatedly raided by bandits. Desperate for protection, the villagers hire seven ronin (masterless samurai) to defend them. Each samurai brings unique skills and personalities, forming a reluctant bond...

Direction Yasuhiro Irie · Hiroshi Iketomi · Kazuo Miyake · Kiyomitsu Sato

Synopsis TV Series (2009-2012). 1 season. 64 episodes. Two brothers lose their mother to an incurable disease. With the power of "alchemy", they use taboo knowledge to resurrect her. The process fails, and as a toll for using this type of...

Direction Keiichirō Saitō

Synopsis TV Series (2023 - 2024). 28 Episodes. The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon...

Direction Yuichiro Hayashi

Synopsis Compilation film of the last 2 special episodes from the last season of "Attack on Titan".

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yûzô Kayama · Yoshio Tsuchiya · Kyôko Kagawa

Synopsis In the Nineteenth Century, in Japan, the arrogant and proud just-graduated Dr. Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) is forced to work in the Koshikawa Clinic, a non-profit health facility ruled by Dr. Kyojio Niide (Toshirô Mifune), a.k.a. "Red Beard". "Red Beard"...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Yoshiaki Hanayaki · Kyôko Kagawa · Eitarô Shindô

Synopsis In Sansho the Bailiff (1954), a compassionate governor is exiled, leaving his family—wife Tamaki, son Zushio, and daughter Anju—to fend for themselves. Separated by slavers, the children are sold to the ruthless Sansho, who forces them into brutal servitude. Years...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Takashi Shimura · Nobuo Kaneko · Kyôko Seki · Makoto Kobori

Synopsis In To Live (1952), directed by Akira Kurosawa, the story follows Kanji Watanabe, a middle-aged bureaucrat who discovers he has a terminal illness. Faced with the grim reality of his limited time, Watanabe embarks on a quest to find meaning...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Yusuke Kawazu · Tamao Nakamura

Synopsis The protagonist is the pacifistic Kaji. Strong-armed into the Japanese military during World War II, Kaji has reluctantly learned to kill on the battlefields. Upon his country's surrender, Kaji and some comrades embark on an epic journey on foot southward...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Chishu Ryu · Chieko Higashiyama · Setsuko Hara · Sô Yamamura

Synopsis An elderly couple visit their children in Tokyo, only to be passed around from family to family.

Direction Tetsurō Araki

Synopsis In the Death Note (TV Series) (2006), a brilliant high school student named Light Yagami discovers a mysterious notebook called the Death Note, which grants him the power to kill anyone whose name he writes in it. Believing he can...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Machiko Kyô · Mitsuko Mito · Kinuyo Tanaka · Masayuki Mori

Synopsis Tales of Ugetsu (1953) is a hauntingly beautiful Japanese film set during the chaos of civil war. It follows two ambitious men—a potter seeking wealth and a farmer dreaming of becoming a samurai—whose desires lead them away from their families...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yôko Tsukasa · Go Kato · Tatsuya Nakadai

Synopsis In 1725, during a peaceful period in Japan, Isaburo, a veteran samurai, lives placidly with his wife and his son. One day, his honor and moral principles will be at odds with his clan's. The conflict is inevitable and it...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Ineko Arima · Chikage Awashima

Synopsis During the Second World War, Kaji, a japanese pacifist, tries to avoid military service by accepting a job as a supervisor in the mines of Manchuria, in occupied territory. Kaji tries to improve the conditions of the workers but he...

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast Eiji Okada · Kyôko Kishida · Hiroko Ito · Hideo Kanze

Synopsis An entomologist looking for insects in the desert accepts locals' offer to stay with a widow whose house is at the bottom of a sandpit, accessible only by a rope ladder. But overnight, the ladder disappears and there's no way...

Direction Kenji Kamiyama

Synopsis TV Series (2003-2005). 26 Episodes. In a futuristic world where the internet and cybernetics has blurred the borders between societies; the members of Public Security Section 9 are reinstated to assist in solving numerous cases of cyber crime. A spate...

Direction Shōta Goshozono

Synopsis TV series (2023). 23 episodes. Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto were not always enemies. Long before what was supposed to be their final meeting during the Night Parade of the Hundred Demons, the two were fellow students, rivals and friends....

Direction Tatsuya Ishihara · Ichirou Miyoshi · Kazuya Sakamoto · Mitsuyoshi Yoneda

Synopsis TV Series (2008). 22 episodes + 3 special episodes. Events in After Story take place following immediately after the first season, following after Tomoya's final semester of high school. After declaring his love to Nagisa, they begin to have a...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Kyôko Kagawa · Yôko Minamida · Eitarô Shindô

Synopsis Set in 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is falsely accused of having an affair with the Ishun’s most trusted servant, Mohei, the two flee away. While on the run, Osan and...