Misako Watanabe Movies

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Youjin is a quirky young man living in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Yojin has a difficult time sitting still and can't focus on extended conversations....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Takahashi

Knowing that he has only a month to live, a pianist goes back to his beloved ocean. He meets a girl with a broken leg. She is the daughter of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

A sharpshooter kills two prisoners in a police van at night. The guard on the van is suspended for six months; he's Tamon, an upright, modest man. He...

Genre: Action

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Awkward and withdrawn, Masako kills her sister in an explosion of pent-up humiliation and rage that sends her tumbling into fugitive life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naomi Fujiyama

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, The Great...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryudo Uzaki

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kaoru Yachigusa

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Odagiri

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Tsugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoiled her and she is rough and selfish. However, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Riho Makise

Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular the Honganji lineage that had a slump in its...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Masaaki Daimon

On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

Minami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner named Wilson. Whenever Wilson comes, Yasuo spends his...

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Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsutomu Shimomoto

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...

Genre: War

Cast: Shirō Ōsaka

Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noriko Tsuji

The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi

Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kotaro Satomi

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A delinquent young man (Kobayashi Akira) from a wealthy family decides to get in on a blackmailing scheme targeting his young stepmother (Watanabe...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toyo Takahashi

Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and...

Genre: History

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival...

Genre: Western

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

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Cast: Kōji Wada

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misako Watanabe

Ayane is the daughter of a karaage (fried food) store owner, but she never liked karaage. Eventually, she left home, only to return 5 years later....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ai Takahashi

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

Yoshikawa and Kaji are alumni - Yoshikawa leads a life loyal to his company Toho Corporation, whilst Kaji works in the underground world for Aoyama,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryōji Hayama

A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to another. She dedicates herself to her...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

The supply of sea bream to the fish market has decreased, and the price has increased to a whopping 1 ryo, and unable to face his customers openly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of...

Genre: History

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.

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Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Two men perform a robbery on an airplane before parachuting to safety, and a newspaper reporter attempts to solve the crime.

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Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryōji Hayama

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Takahashi

Job-hunting Daisuke heads to the Antiquarian Bookshop Biblia in Kita-Kamakura with a book signed by Natsume Soseki that his deceased grandmother left...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haru Kuroki

Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

The first postwar war movie depicting the tragedy of a special force that shook the world at the end of the Pacific War, with thrill and speed

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Cast: Ryōji Hayama

In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to avenge his father's death continues. His discovery of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shoichi Ozawa

Shun is a young man, who sells his paintings on a city corner. Kasumi is a children's story writer, living alone in a mountain in Shinsyuu. One day,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kei Tanaka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miki Shimamura

An illustration of the tragic lives of geishas at a popular geisha house, Shinonomero. Shortly after being sold to a geisha house at age 5, Shizu is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rino Katase

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōichirō Kawarasaki

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Cast: Mie Kitahara

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Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

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Cast: Ichirō Sugai

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koreya Senda

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...

Genre: Western

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misako Watanabe

Ryota Tanaka, a young man who was struggling to become a manga artist in Tokyo, came back to his hometown in Fukuoka, feeling the limits of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kanta Sato

A suspense drama based on Osamu Takahashi's original work starring Shinobu Otake. The shooting location of Gunkanjima is a famous tourist attraction....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinobu Otake

A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the concerns and aspirations of a high school student.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

A true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a sailor who embarked on a single underworld to...

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm.

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Cast: Ryōji Hayama

A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). Becoming a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miyu Yoshimoto

Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes,...

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.

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Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misako Watanabe

In a quiet farming village in northeastern Japan, there lives an elderly couple. One day, a notice arrives in the mail about an antique camera sale...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kume

In post-war Japan, a publisher goes to visit her former teacher for help on a modern translation of a legend about a mummified Buddhist monk who was...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Misako Watanabe

A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bakery and café called Mani. One...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tomoyo Harada

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jō Shishido

Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton club. Her father, Kinzo, remodeled her barn and...

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Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shūji Sano

The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taiji Tonoyama

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Misako Watanabe

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Miyuki Kuwano

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Miyuki Kuwano

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mie Kitahara

A blockbuster youth action film that explodes with the charm of Maiko Guy and Akira, based on the serialized novel in Nikkan Sports by Yoshirō...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shoichi Ozawa