Eijirō Tōno

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.

The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.

In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective seeks advice from a seasoned colleague while trying to track down his stolen Colt pistol.

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

Musashi Miyamoto returns to Kyoto after years of absence. After a series of fights against the Yoshioka School, he challenges its master to a duel.

In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.

An aging Japanese industrialist becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family.

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.

A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.

A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.

Two ronin - an ex-samurai and an ex-farmer - get caught up in a local official's complex game of murder and betrayal.

After killing a counselor of his clan, a fugitive samurai befriends a couple poaching the shogun's gold in the mountains.

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to prevent a massacre from taking place.

When a samurai clan attempting to assassinate a feudal lord begin to suspect a traitor, they start an investigation on a ronin who is helping their cause.

Zatoichi, while fighting off the usual group of gangsters, meets the apprentice of the swordsman who created his blade, who relays bad news about the sword.

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to his team.

Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War II's Battle of Okinawa - a massive amphibious assault by U.S. troops that left more than 150,000 Japanese civilians dead.

A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a young, smart boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to other people's needs, she will end by taking part herself in one of the many disguises of Ginza.

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.

A prince, framed for murder and starved for affection from his father, is sent on a quest.

This comedy portrays the everyday life of an ordinary salary-man who uses himself as a model to write a novella.

When we last saw the intrepid ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizo Ichikawa), he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even harder to kill. With the help of the enigmatic Hattori Hanzo, Goemon lives to s...

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 a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong pers...

Two twin girls are separated at birth. One grows up in a loving family. The other one doesn't. They finally meet by complete accident on a town fair. No one ever told them about the other one so they begin familiarizing with each ...

Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.

Set in Kawaguchi, just north of Tokyo in the early 60s, the movie chronicles the lives of poor foundry workers and their families; and one girl's dreams of self-improvement through going on to higher education.

Two sisters living in poverty reach the age when they start to attract marriage proposals. They must decide between marrying for love or money.

While revelations of his lower class past threaten his job, a school teacher fights for freedom and equality.

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.