Search results for "Eijirō Tōno"
Zatoichi’s Cane Sword

Zatoichi’s Cane Sword

Zatoichi’s Cane Sword
IMDb: 7.5
93

Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged gambling game. Of course, the…

Illusion of Blood

Illusion of Blood

Illusion of Blood
IMDb: 6.5
105

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

Genre: Horror
An Autumn Afternoon

An Autumn Afternoon

An Autumn Afternoon
IMDb: 8
114

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life,…

Genre: Drama
Twin Sisters of Kyoto

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

Twin Sisters of Kyoto
IMDb: 7.1
106

In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant’s daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck,…

Genre: Drama
Akitsu Hot Springs

Akitsu Hot Springs

Akitsu Hot Springs
IMDb: 7.2
113

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama
IMDb: 7.8
98

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old…

Genre: Drama
Pale Flower

Pale Flower

Pale Flower
IMDb: 7.7
96

Muraki, a hardboiled Yakuza gangster, has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder. Revisiting his old gambling haunts, he meets Saeko, a striking young upper-class woman…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
The Fight of the Gamblers

The Fight of the Gamblers

The Fight of the Gamblers
IMDb: N/A
91

Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother,…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow

Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow

Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow
IMDb: 7.3
100

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl’s dreams of higher education.

Genre: Drama
Untamed Woman

Untamed Woman

Untamed Woman
IMDb: 7.1
121

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with…

Genre: Drama
Sword of the Beast

Sword of the Beast

Sword of the Beast
IMDb: 7.6
85

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha’s Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His…

Genre: Action, Drama
Kill!

Kill!

Kill!
IMDb: 7.5
114

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai….

Genre: Action, Comedy
Yojimbo

Yojimbo

Yojimbo
IMDb: 8.2
110

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Pigs and Battleships

Pigs and Battleships

Pigs and Battleships
IMDb: 7.5
108

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story
IMDb: 8.2
137

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and…

Genre: Drama
Stray Dog

Stray Dog

Stray Dog
IMDb: 7.9
122

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!
IMDb: 7.5
144

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. “Tora! Tora! Tora!”, named…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Horus: Prince of the Sun

Horus: Prince of the Sun

Horus: Prince of the Sun
IMDb: 6.6
82

Horus, a kid living in an unnamed Scandinavian/Eastern Europe culture of the Iron Age, recovers the Sword of the Sun from the rock giant Maug and learns from his dying…

Samurai Assassin

Samurai Assassin

Samurai Assassin
IMDb: 7.5
122

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of…

Genre: Action, Drama, History
Apostasy

Apostasy

Apostasy
IMDb: 6.3
99

A teacher at a Japanese school tries to hide his outcast upbringing.

Genre: Drama
Our Marriage

Our Marriage

Our Marriage
IMDb: 7.1
66

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

Genre: Drama
Black River

Black River

Black River
IMDb: 7.1
114

The story follows a university student who moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Ginza Cosmetics

Ginza Cosmetics

Ginza Cosmetics
IMDb: 6.9
87

Italy is usually cited as the anchor of the neo-realist movement in cinema, but Mikio Naruse’s Ginza Cosmetics (1951) is a reminder that Japan had its own output equally rooted…

Genre: Drama
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
IMDb: 6.9
103

A salaryman’s drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life’s story.

Genre: Comedy, Drama