Noriko Sengoku Movies

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...

Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a...

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.

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

Bored Hatamoto film #20

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

1960 Japanese movie

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...

Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).

“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh....

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV...

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...

Rai pedals his bike and trailer about town, collecting old iron and sowing flower seeds. Because his face never seems to show emotion, everybody...

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series.