Akira Ifukube Movies

A yakuza man who dreads being released from prison, yet the day of his release arrives. Awaiting him are a woman’s burning gaze and the muzzle...

Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political...

Roar and Earth

In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known...

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were...

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful...

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.

Japanese mystery thriller.

A group of Japanese nursing students and their instructor is serving at an army camp in China. When Japan loses the war the group sets out to depart...

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

1968 film

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.