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1. The Idiot (1951)
Not Rated | 166 min | Drama, Romance
A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga
Votes: 5,668
2. The Castle of Sand (1974)
143 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Gô Katô, Kensaku Morita, Yôko Shimada
Votes: 1,538
3. Scandal (1950)
Approved | 105 min | Drama
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi, Noriko Sengoku
Votes: 4,675
4. The Demon (1978)
110 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After a married man stops providing for his mistress, she abandons their three young children with him and his wrathful wife.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Ken Ogata, Hiroki Iwase, Miyuki Yoshizawa
Votes: 967
5. Amagi Pass (1983)
99 min | Drama, Mystery
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an ... See full summary »
Director: Haruhiko Mimura | Stars: Tsunehiko Watase, Yûko Tanaka, Mikijirô Hira, Yôichi Ito
Votes: 153
6. Zero Focus (1961)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Teiko's new husband disappears on a business trip. She discovers a pair of mysterious postcards hidden away in a book that may be clues to his fate.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Yoshiko Kuga, Hizuru Takachiho, Ineko Arima, Kôji Nanbara
Votes: 728
7. Village of Eight Gravestones (1977)
151 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Mayumi Ogawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yôko Yamamoto
Votes: 414
8. The Street of Desire (1984)
125 min | Drama
A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.
Director: Haruhiko Mimura | Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Yûko Natori, Rentarô Mikuni, Tsunehiko Watase
Votes: 19
9. Stakeout (1958)
116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two cops on stakeout wait for a murderer.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Minoru Ôki, Takahiro Tamura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Hideko Takamine
Votes: 443
10. Maboroshi no mizuumi (1982)
164 min
A woman works as a prostitute and attendant to make a living at a bathhouse. She is athletic and is an avid runner. She has met and adopted a white dog and the two have become inseparable. ... See full summary »
Director: Shinobu Hashimoto | Stars: Reiko Nanjô, Daisuke Ryû, Kin'ya Kitaôji, Hatsunori Hasegawa
Votes: 44
11. Suspicion (1982)
127 min | Drama, Crime, Mystery
The story follow a court case of a woman accused of having killed her husband.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Kaori Momoi, Shima Iwashita, Akira Emoto, Akihiko Hanyû
Votes: 203
12. Hakkodasan (1977)
169 min | Drama
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army tackled Mount Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.
Director: Shirô Moritani | Stars: Shôgo Shimada, Ken Takakura, Hideji Ôtaki, Kin'ya Kitaôji
Votes: 215
13. Furueru shita (1980)
114 min | Drama, Horror
A five-year-old girl gets a tiny scratch on her finger while playing with mud in a marsh. After that, she suffers all kinds of horrible spasms including biting her tongue.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Tsunehiko Watase, Yukiyo Toake, Mayuko Wakamori, Tomoe Hiiro
Votes: 224
14. Miyamoto Musashi (1973)
148 min | Action, Drama
A darker, deconstructionist depiction of the legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto.
Director: Tai Katô | Stars: Jirô Tamiya, Keiko Matsuzaka, Mitsuko Baishô, Hideki Takahashi
Votes: 67
15. The Wicked (1980)
129 min | Drama, Mystery
A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Takao Kataoka, Keiko Matsuzaka, Junko Miyashita, Mariko Fuji
Votes: 73
16. Fukkatsu no asa (1992)
111 min
Director: Takeshi Yoshida | Stars: Shinobu Ôtake, Emi Wakui, Masayuki Watanabe, Rie Yokoyama
Votes: 7
17. The Shadow Within (1970)
97 min | Drama
Hamajima is a quiet, hard-working man, whose life changes drastically when he reunites with a lovely childhood friend and her strange little boy.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Gô Katô, Mayumi Ogawa, Yûsuke Takita
Votes: 217
18. Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies (1986)
135 min | Comedy, Drama
This is Japanese melo-dramatist director Yoji Yamada's ode to 1930s film production during the transition from silent film to talkies. With many loose associations we can see the rise of a ... See full summary »
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Kiyoshi Atsumi, Kiichi Nakai, Narimi Arimori, Chieko Baishô
Votes: 191
19. The Incident (1978)
138 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged ... See full summary »
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinobu Ôtake, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Tsunehiko Watase
Votes: 166
20. Call from Darkness (1981)
125 min | Drama, Mystery
A mysterious story involving the disappearance of Tatsuo's three brothers. Tatsuo, thinks that he too may disappear and has a nervous breakdown. His fiance visits a neurologist, who ... See full summary »
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Asami Kobayashi, Kaoru Kobayashi, Tsunehiko Watase, Makoto Fujita
Votes: 39
21. The Politicians (1983)
136 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal murder ensue. And the existence of secret love letters changes the situation.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Yukiji Asaoka, Shinsuke Ashida, Mitsuru Hirata, Ayumi Ishida
Votes: 10
22. Flower and Dragon: Story of Youth - Story of Love - Story of the Angry Wave (1973)
168 min | Action, Drama
Director: Tai Katô | Stars: Tetsuya Watari, Jirô Tamiya, Muga Takewaki, Yoshiko Kayama
Votes: 16
23. The Strangers Upstairs (1961)
56 min | Comedy
After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon discover the woe of being landlords.
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Kazuya Kosaka, Kyôko Aoi, Toyo Takahashi, Masaaki Hirao
Votes: 35
24. Theater of Life: Youth, Lust and Spirit (1972)
167 min | Drama
Director: Tai Katô | Stars: Muga Takewaki, Jirô Tamiya, Hideki Takahashi, Tetsuya Watari
Votes: 10
25. Kiken na onnatachi (1985)
122 min | Mystery
Shuhei, a mystery writer, is invited to a dinner party at a country house. The guests include Tanase and his wife Noriko. Next day, Tanase is shot and Noriko with a gun stands near him. Tanase calls one of the guest's name and dies.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Mariko Fuji, Tomoe Hiiro, Kimiko Ikegami, Kôji Ishizaka
Votes: 10
26. The Scarlet Camellia (1964)
117 min | Crime, Drama
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Yoshi Katô, Sachiko Hidari, Takahiro Tamura
Votes: 51
27. Haikei tenno heika sama (1963)
100 min | Comedy, War
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Kiyoshi Atsumi, Hiroyuki Nagato, Meiko Nakamura, Sachiko Hidari
Votes: 35
28. The Left Handed Sniper: Tokyo Bay (1962)
90 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
An undercover Japanese cop meant to operate within a gang, which deals in drugs is killed, by a sniper. The police are searching for a left-handed man as they determined the killer to be. A young detective is in charge.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Jirô Ishizaki, Hiromi Sakaki, Kyôko Aoi, Kô Nishimura
Votes: 19
29. The Three Undelivered Letters (1979)
130 min | Drama, Mystery
A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household, and gets entangled in a sinister plot of murder.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Shin Saburi, Nobuko Otowa, Mayumi Ogawa, Komaki Kurihara
Votes: 64
30. Watch Your Heart, Tamegoro (1971)
84 min | Action, Crime
An easygoing gambler played by Atsumi (later to gain fame as Tora-san) gets caught in the crossfire of two gangs' warfare.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Kiyoshi Atsumi, Sachiko Mitsumoto, Kei Tani, Ichirô Zaitsu
31. Haikei sôri daijin sama (1964)
89 min | Comedy
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Kiyoshi Atsumi, Hiroyuki Nagato, Mariko Miyagi, Kei Yamamoto
32. Bomeiki (1955)
Drama
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Keiko Kishi, Keiji Sada, Wei Hong, Yûnosuke Itô
33. Danryû (1966)
89 min | Drama
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Chieko Baishô, Mikijirô Hira, Toshiyuki Hosokawa
34. Xiang Gang Dong Jing mi yue lu xing (1957)
Comedy
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Linda Lin, Chun Yen, Keiko Kishi, Ineko Arima
35. Kon'na watashi ja nakatta ni (1952)
88 min
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Shin'ichi Himori, Hanko Kagurazaka, Kokinji Katsura, Yûji Kawakita
36. Onna no issho (1967)
Drama
One of many Japanese adaptations of Guy de Maupassant's first novel, "Un vie" [A Woman's Life], this film tells the story of a gentle young woman who gradually becomes embittered after marrying a demanding, unfaithful suitor.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Asahi Kurizuka, Masakazu Tamura, Muga Takewaki
37. It's Me Here, Bellett (1964)
27 min | Short
A promotional film for the automobile manufacturer Isuzu Jidosha.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Asao Satô, Sumie Katô, Saburô Bôya, Akiko Koyama
Votes: 44
38. Jinsei gekijô (1972)
167 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and Tobigashikaku.
Director: Tai Katô | Stars: Muga Takewaki, Jirô Tamiya, Hideki Takahashi, Tetsuya Watari
39. Shinano River (1973)
87 min | Drama
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Shinsuke Minami, Mitsuko Baishô, Munenori Oyamada, Hideko Yoshida
Votes: 10
40. The Last Trump Card (1960)
Action, Crime
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Keiko Hibino, Yoshi Katô, Miyuki Kuwano, Seiji Miyaguchi
41. Tenshi mo yume o miru (1951)
84 min
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Kôji Tsuruta, Keiko Tsushima, Keiji Sada, Tokuji Kobayashi
42. Yoake no futari (1968)
101 min | Drama
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Yukio Hashi, Tokue Hanazawa, Mie Minami, Jun Mayuzumi
43. Nezumi Kozô kaitô den (1984)
98 min | Drama
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Yoshi Katô, Yuko Kazu, Keiko Matsuzaka, Yôko Moriguchi
44. Naniga nandemo tamegorô (1970)
88 min | Comedy
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Hajime Hana, Kei Tani, Sachiko Mitsumoto, Eitarô Ozawa
45. Tekirei san'nin musume (1951)
84 min
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Toshio Hosokawa, Michiko Ikuno, Tokuji Kobayashi, Toshiko Kobayashi
46. Tokyo do mannaka (1974)
90 min | Drama
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Kensaku Morita, Chieko Baishô, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Jô Shishido
47. Haitoku no mesu (1961)
87 min | Thriller
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Takahiro Tamura, Hizuru Takachiho, Reiko Hitomi, Sô Yamamura
48. Dame Oyaji (1973)
87 min | Comedy
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Shinsuke Minami, Mitsuko Baishô, Shinju Sano, Yumiko Arizaki
49. Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha (1953)
96 min
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Shôgo Shimada, Kazunari Motomatsu, Kenjirô Ishiyama, Eijirô Yanagi
50. Konto Gojugo-go to Miko no zettai zetsumei (1971)
89 min
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Jirô Sakagami, Kin'ichi Hagimoto, Kaoru Yumi, Kiwako Taichi