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1. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
G | 144 min | Action, Drama, History
The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.
Directors: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda, Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 37,205 | Gross: $29.55M
2. The Challenge (1982)
R | 108 min | Action, Drama
A down-and-out American boxer becomes involved in a feud between two Japanese brothers.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Scott Glenn, Toshirô Mifune, Donna Kei Benz, Atsuo Nakamura
Votes: 2,668 | Gross: $3.53M
3. Submersion of Japan (1973)
PG | 143 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
The shorted re-edited American version of Submersion of Japan, in which Japan slowly sinks into the sea as the US and Japan work together to stop it.
Directors: Shirô Moritani, Andrew Mayer | Stars: Lorne Greene, Keiju Kobayashi, Rhonda Hopkins, Hiroshi Fujioka
Votes: 527
4. Japan's Longest Day (1967)
157 min | Drama, History, War
A dramatization of the 24-hour period in which the Japanese government was deadlocked over the decision to accept or reject the Allies' demand for an unconditional surrender following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Director: Kihachi Okamoto | Stars: Seiji Miyaguchi, Rokkô Toura, Chishû Ryû, Sô Yamamura
Votes: 1,011
5. Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988)
135 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming city.
Director: Akio Jissôji | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Kyûsaku Shimada, Mieko Harada, Jun'ichi Ishida
Votes: 459
6. The Setting Sun (1992)
152 min | Drama
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.
Director: Rou Tomono | Stars: Masaya Katô, Diane Lane, Biao Yuen, Donald Sutherland
Votes: 137
7. Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (1964)
Not Rated | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Zatoichi is mistaken for a thief. To clear his name he must find and defeat the real villain.
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Shôgo Shimada, Mikiko Tsubouchi, Machiko Hasegawa
Votes: 1,831
8. 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
9. Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990)
114 min | Comedy, Drama
Her childhood was hardly ideal as she was abandoned and grew up without parental love. She finds a home and a profession as a geisha who is particularly popular because she has that lucky ... See full summary »
Director: Jûzô Itami | Stars: Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Tsugawa, Hiroshi Ohkôchi, Ryûnosuke Kaneda
Votes: 333
10. Satan's Sword (1960)
106 min | Action, Drama
The story follows the life of Ryunosuke Tsukue, an amoral samurai and a master swordsman with an unorthodox style.
Director: Kenji Misumi | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Kôjirô Hongô, Tamao Nakamura, Fujiko Yamamoto
Votes: 276
11. Kai (1985)
Not Rated | 134 min | Drama
The story of Iwago, a troubled Japanese man who has grave personal problems and strained relationships with his wife and step children.
Director: Hideo Gosha | Stars: Ken Ogata, Yukiyo Toake, Yûko Natori, Mariko Ishihara
Votes: 141
12. Blue Christmas (1978)
133 min | Sci-Fi
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest ... See full summary »
Director: Kihachi Okamoto | Stars: Hiroshi Katsuno, Keiko Takeshita, Eiji Okada, Kaoru Yachigusa
Votes: 135
13. Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro no endan (1993)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring Mitsuo back home, himself falls in love... See full summary »
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masami Shimojô
Votes: 73
14. Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza (1968)
109 min | Action, Crime
Director: Tomu Uchida | Stars: Kôji Tsuruta, Ken Takakura, Sumiko Fuji, Tomisaburô Wakayama
Votes: 29
15. Nogiku no haka (1981)
91 min | Drama, Romance
Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. On the day of the Autumn Festival, while picking cotton in a ... See full summary »
Director: Shin'ichirô Sawai | Stars: Seiko Matsuda, Tadashi Kuwabara, Tetsurô Tanba, Shôgo Shimada
Votes: 31
16. Magino Village: A Tale (1987)
222 min | Documentary, Drama
The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years after the collective moved to Magino village. Unique to this film are fictional reenactments of the ... See full summary »
Director: Shinsuke Ogawa | Stars: Tatsumi Hijikata, Junko Miyashita, Takahiro Tamura, Chôichirô Kawarasaki
Votes: 64
17. Gateway to Glory (1970)
122 min | Drama, War
Director: Mitsuo Murayama | Stars: Kichiemon Nakamura, Shôgo Shimada, Eiko Azusa, Jun Fujimaki
Votes: 60
18. Nagadosu chûshingura (1962)
97 min | Action
Director: Kunio Watanabe | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Ken Utsui, Katsuhiko Kobayashi, Shiho Fujimura
19. The Falcon Fighters (1969)
100 min | Drama, War
In the days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Kato Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps trains new crop of volunteers from the Amry's ... See full summary »
Director: Mitsuo Murayama | Stars: Makoto Satô, Shiho Fujimura, Sei Hiraizumi, Kôjirô Hongô
Votes: 37
20. Showa zankyo-den: Ippiki okami (1966)
90 min | Action, Crime
Takei Shigejiro belongs to the Shimazu family. When his boss gets killed, he takes revenge and ends up in prison.
Director: Kiyoshi Saeki | Stars: Ken Takakura, Ryô Ikebe, Sumiko Fuji, Shôgo Shimada
Votes: 42
22. A Man's Crest: We Kill (1965)
84 min | Crime
As a drifter Yakuza boss who might as well walk on water by all the good deeds he does and always trying non-violent/honorable solutions first...gets to finally draw his blade and get in touch with his old friend, Murder.
Director: Motomu Ida | Stars: Eiji Gô, Saburô Hiromatsu, Masako Izumi, Asao Koike
Votes: 13
23. Tenshu monogatari (1995)
105 min | Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Director: Tamasaburô Bandô | Stars: Tamasaburô Bandô, Sadanji Ichikawa IV, Yoshie Minami, Rie Miyazawa
Votes: 18
24. Dai Tôkyô tanjô - Ôedo no kane (1958)
Action
Director: Tatsuo Ôsone | Stars: Michiyo Aratama, Harold Conway, Manami Fuji, Kôshirô Matsumoto
25. Musashi and Kojiro (1952)
96 min | Action
Director: Masahiro Makino | Stars: Masao Akizuki, Chikage Awashima, Kamatari Fujiwara, Hachirô Gunji
26. Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no mon (1974)
119 min | Drama, War
Director: Mitsuo Murayama | Stars: Terumi Niki, Yumiko Fujita, Kawai Okada, Keiko Torii
Votes: 23
27. Young Challengers (1968)
96 min | Drama
Director: Yasuki Chiba | Stars: Keiju Kobayashi, Toshio Kurosawa, Yumi Shirakawa, Shôichi Ozawa
28. The Performers (1970)
94 min | Drama
Director: Umetsugu Inoue | Stars: Hibari Misora, Shin'ichi Mori, Shôgo Shimada, Yoichi Hayashi
29. Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha (1953)
96 min
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Shôgo Shimada, Kazunari Motomatsu, Kenjirô Ishiyama, Eijirô Yanagi
30. Aniki (1977– )
45 min | Drama
Stars: Ken Takakura, Reiko Ôhara, Chieko Baishô, Kumiko Akiyoshi
Votes: 7
31. Fûun sanjô gawara (1955)
95 min
Director: Kyôtarô Namiki | Stars: Shôgo Shimada, Ryûtarô Tatsumi, Hisako Yamane, Sachiko Tôyama
32. Otoko no daimon (1972)
91 min | Action, Crime
Director: Kôsaku Yamashita | Stars: Hideki Takahashi, Kyôsuke Machida, Minoru Ôki, Bin Amatsu
33. Showa no inochi (1968)
165 min | Action, Crime
THIS WAS ONE OF NIKKATSU'S BIGGEST RELEASES OF 1968.
Director: Toshio Masuda | Stars: Yûjirô Ishihara, Ryûtarô Tatsumi, Hideki Takahashi, Mie Hama
34. Jigoku no kengô Hirate Miki (1954)
Director: Eisuke Takizawa | Stars: Masao Akizuki, Hachirô Gunji, Shôha Hatanaka, Otoha Hatsuse
35. Kunisada Chûji (1954)
Director: Eisuke Takizawa | Stars: Masao Akizuki, Takako Chihaya, Kogiku Hanayagi, Shôha Hatanaka
36. Yûbue (1967)
91 min | Adventure
There is a high school student whose family went broke. They lose their house. The student stands in front of his former house. He stares at the flowers in the garden and sees a schoolgirl ... See full summary »
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa | Stars: Kazuo Funaki, Chieko Matsubara, Shôgo Shimada, Akiko Kazami
37. Ezo yakata no ketto (1970)
131 min | Action
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.
Director: Kengo Furusawa | Stars: Yûzô Kayama, Rentarô Mikuni, Shôgo Shimada, Mitsuko Baishô
Votes: 25
38. Meisô chizu (1992 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
A large number of people are involved in the conflict inside the ruling political party. The story follows their interaction in flashback. In the process, scandals, a murder and a car accident happen.
Director: Akira Sakazaki | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Hideaki Nitani, Takerô Morimoto, Midori Kiuchi
39. Rokunin no ansatsusha (1955)
107 min | Drama
Director: Eisuke Takizawa | Stars: Shôgo Shimada, Osamu Takizawa, Isao Yamagata, Kunitarô Sawamura
40. Soman kokkyô 2-gô sakusen: Kieta chûtai (1955)
93 min
Director: Akira Mimura | Stars: Ryûtarô Tatsumi, Ken'ichirô Kawamura, Goro Matsuki, Katsumi Ôyama
41. Onna toseinin: ota no mushimasu (1971)
103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
It is hard to think of another ninkyô yakuza film that leaves the main protagonist - a chivalrous female at that - in so much pain and sorrow, such an emotional abyss of desolation at the ... See full summary »
Director: Kôsaku Yamashita | Stars: Tatsuo Endô, Sumiko Fuji, Shôtarô Hayashi, Nobuo Kaneko
42. Challenge at Dawn (1971)
141 min | Action, Crime
Director: Toshio Masuda | Stars: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Tetsuya Watari, Mitsuko Baishô, Tatsuya Nakadai
43. Ôshô ihidai (1955)
115 min | Drama
Director: Daisuke Itô | Stars: Ryûtarô Tatsumi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Michiyo Kogure, Kyôko Kagawa
44. Seki no yatappe (1955)
85 min
Director: Kunio Watanabe | Stars: Shôgo Shimada, Ken'ichirô Kawamura, Masao Akizuki, Kôjirô Miyamoto
45. Haha taru koto wa jigoku no gotoku (1981 TV Movie)
120 min | Biography, Drama
Biography of Miki Sawada who established Elizabeth Saunders Home, an orphanage for biracial children. The story follows Miki Sawada's efforts to raise money in flashbacks, and one orphan's current efforts to find his birth mother.
Director: Yoshiko Sembon | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Daisuke Ryû, Shinobu Ôtake, Yatsuko Tan'ami
46. Fuyô no Hito (1977– )
54 min | Drama
Stars: Sumire Aoki, Michiko Godai, Kôjirô Miyamoto, Katsuo Nakamura
47. Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gôshi (1954)
101 min
Director: Eisuke Takizawa | Stars: Shôgo Shimada, Yukiko Shimazaki, Osamu Takizawa, Akitake Kôno
48. Kukkake toki Jirô (1954)
98 min
Director: Kiyoshi Saeki | Stars: Shôgo Shimada, Mitsuko Mito, Yoshihisa Kagawa, Ryûtarô Tatsumi
49. Ôtone no taiketsu (1955)
81 min
Director: Taizô Fuyushima | Stars: Shôgo Shimada, Ryûtarô Tatsumi, Akira Shimizu, Ken'ichirô Kawamura
50. Hissatsu bakuchi-uchi (1969)
93 min | Crime
A Gambler's Certain Death.
Director: Kiyoshi Saeki | Stars: Tatsuo Endô, Yûko Hama, Isamu Nagato, Shôgo Shimada