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1. High and Low (1963)
Not Rated | 143 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa
Votes: 53,285
2. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama
In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô
Votes: 18,245
3. The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary, History
A comprehensive history of the medium and art of motion pictures.
Stars: Mark Cousins, Juan Diego Botto, Aleksandr Sokurov, Norman Lloyd
Votes: 4,834
4. Red Beard (1965)
Not Rated | 185 min | Drama
In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan
Votes: 21,128
5. A Man in the Storm (1957)
95 min | Action, Adventure
Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert.
Director: Senkichi Taniguchi | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Kyôko Kagawa, Akio Kobori, Jun Tazaki
Votes: 25
6. Tokyo Story (1953)
Not Rated | 136 min | Drama
An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura, Setsuko Hara
Votes: 68,692
7.
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
Episode:
The Golden Age of World Cinema
(2011)
Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary, History
1918-1932, the great rebel filmmakers around the world. Novel and remarkable experiments in silent cinema; French impressionism and surrealism, German expressionism, Soviet, Japanese and Chinese cinematic innovation.
Director: Mark Cousins | Stars: Mark Cousins, Naum Kleiman, Aleksandr Sokurov, Donald Richie
Votes: 274
8. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Not Rated | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
Votes: 14,035
9. A Story from Chikamatsu (1954)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Ishun is a wealthy but unsympathetic master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô, Eitarô Ozawa
Votes: 4,951
10. Rainy Night Duel (1956)
96 min | Action, Drama
Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo school because of his propensity for ... See full summary »
Director: Senkichi Taniguchi | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Shin Saburi, Akio Kobori, Kyôko Kagawa
Votes: 15
11.
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
Episode:
Sex & Melodrama
(2011)
Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary, History
The Story of Film examines cinema in the period of 1953-1957. It looks at the growth of movie-making around the world and examines how sex and melodrama dominated the period. It looks at ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Cousins | Stars: Mark Cousins, Youssef Chahine, Soumendu Roy, Sharmila Tagore
Votes: 214
12. Shall We Dance? (1996)
PG | 136 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.
Director: Masayuki Suô | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eri Watanabe
Votes: 11,741 | Gross: $9.68M
13. Onna de aru koto (1958)
100 min
Married for a decade, a couple have no child. He is a lawyer, however, and as a result of one of his cases has the daughter of an imprisoned man living with them. The girl, who is ... See full summary »
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Masayuki Mori, Setsuko Hara, Yoshiko Kuga, Tatsuya Mihashi
Votes: 13
14. Kin no tamago: Golden girl (1952)
Comedy
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuki Chiba | Stars: Yukiko Shimazaki, Kazuo Masubuchi, Chieko Nakakita, Keiju Kobayashi
Votes: 9
15. After Life (1998)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Fantasy
After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitô
Votes: 13,773 | Gross: $0.80M
16. Deep River (1995)
130 min | Drama
Three Japanese tourists - a soldier, a divorced woman, and a salaryman - make a pilgrimage to the Ganges River in India, each in hopes of finding some spiritual release or meaning in life.
Director: Kei Kumai | Stars: Kumiko Akiyoshi, Eiji Okuda, Hisashi Igawa, Kyôko Kagawa
Votes: 110
17. Mother (1952)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Eiji Okada, Akihiko Katayama
Votes: 863
18. Tôkyô no kyûjitsu (1958)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes of having a quiet vacation without being... See full summary »
Director: Kajirô Yamamoto | Stars: Shirley Yamaguchi, Akira Takarada, Hiroshi Koizumi, Keiju Kobayashi
Votes: 14
19. The Family (1974)
211 min | Drama
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto | Stars: Shin Saburi, Yumeji Tsukioka, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Yamamoto
Votes: 64
20. Akai kujira to shiroi hebi (2006)
102 min | Drama
On her way to Chikura to live with her son, Yasue Amami gets off at the Tateyama train station. "I want to see my old house," she explains to Akemi Tanaka, the granddaughter accompanying ... See full summary »
Director: Yoshiko Sembon | Stars: Miyoko Asada, Mari Banno, Kyôko Kagawa, Kirin Kiki
Votes: 20
21. Lightning (1952)
87 min | Drama
Poor, pathetic mother Ose has four children, three daughters and a son, by four different men.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Hideko Takamine, Mitsuko Miura, Kyôko Kagawa, Chieko Murata
Votes: 817
22. Sasameyuki (1950)
145 min | Drama
Director: Yutaka Abe | Stars: Ranko Hanai, Yukiko Todoroki, Hisako Yamane, Hideko Takamine
Votes: 18
23. Death on the Mountain (1961)
87 min | Crime, Drama
Masako cannot understand why her brother, an experienced climber, died in a valley. She asks an expert climber to analyze a magazine article on the accident written by a survivor.
Director: Toshio Sugie | Stars: Hisaya Itô, Takashi Wada, Kiyoshi Kodama, Kyôko Kagawa
Votes: 31
24. Jôshû to tomo ni (1956)
146 min | Drama
The woman-only prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had an affair. She loves the jailed ... See full summary »
Director: Seiji Hisamatsu | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Kinuyo Tanaka, Michiyo Kogure, Kyôko Kagawa
Votes: 16
25. Little Peach (1958)
110 min | Drama
Kyoko, the daughter of a successful novelist, marries an aspiring writer. However, her husband's difficulties with his writing and his resentment over her father cause deep strains in the marriage.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Sô Yamamura, Kyôko Kagawa, Isao Kimura, Keiju Kobayashi
Votes: 178
26. Madadayo (1993)
134 min | Drama
Following World War II, a retired professor approaching his autumn years finds his quality of life drastically reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with his adoring students.
Directors: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Tatsuo Matsumura, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro, Masayuki Yui
Votes: 6,161 | Gross: $0.05M
27. Onna bakari no yoru (1961)
93 min | Drama
A prostitute tries to change her life after the enforcement of an anti-prostitution law.
Director: Kinuyo Tanaka | Stars: Chisako Hara, Akemi Kita, Kyôko Kagawa, Chikage Awashima
Votes: 301
28. Who Knows a Woman's Heart (1951)
80 min | Drama
Director: Kajirô Yamamoto | Stars: Mieko Takamine, Ryô Ikebe, Toshirô Mifune, Kyôko Kagawa
Votes: 12
29. The Lower Depths (1957)
Not Rated | 137 min | Drama
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.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Ganjirô Nakamura
Votes: 5,952
30. Mifune: The Last Samurai (2015)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Biography
A feature-length documentary about the life and films of legendary actor Toshiro Mifune, weaving together film clips, archival stills, and interviews with such luminaries as Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. Narrated by Keanu Reeves.
Director: Steven Okazaki | Stars: Wataru Akashi, Kyôko Kagawa, Takeshi Katô, Hisao Kurosawa
Votes: 1,382 | Gross: $0.06M
31. Amida-do dayori (2002)
127 min | Drama
An urban Japanese couple decide to move to the country.
Director: Takashi Koizumi | Stars: Akira Terao, Kanako Higuchi, Shoji Arano, Hisashi Igawa
Votes: 297
32. Sudden Rain (1956)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
This wry chamber piece from director Mikio Naruse focuses on a couple whose pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Shûji Sano, Kyôko Kagawa, Akemi Negishi
Votes: 370
33. Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975)
132 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary film on the life and works of director Kenji Mizoguchi.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Takako Irie, Daisuke Itô, Kyôko Kagawa, Matsutarô Kawaguchi
Votes: 324
34. An Osaka Story (1957)
97 min | Drama
Story follows a poor peasant family that through hardship gets some money and how that change them.
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Shintarô Katsu, Michiko Ono
Votes: 77
35. Scars of Honor (1960)
90 min | Drama
It's 1643 in Japan. As the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in the time-honored tradition of their clan, by drawing their blades in a duel to the death. The survivor will become the target of .
Director: Tokuzô Tanaka | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Seizaburô Kawazu, Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Votes: 14
36. Love Letter (1953)
98 min | Drama, Romance
Explores the wounds of war, the limits of love and the need to forgive. A sad and troubled man, Reikichi Mayumi finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Director: Kinuyo Tanaka | Stars: Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga, Jûkichi Uno, Jûzô Dôsan
Votes: 519
37. Himeyuri no tô (1953)
130 min | Drama, War
High school girls, impressed to provide nursing care for the soldiers on Okinawa, find themselves on the front line during fierce onslaughts by American forces and are left to fend for themselves when the Japanese army dissolves.
Director: Tadashi Imai | Stars: Kyôko Kagawa, Susumu Fujita, Keiko Tsushima, Eiji Okada
Votes: 114
38. Jiyû ren'ai (2005)
117 min | Drama, Romance
Set during Japan's Taisho Era (1912-1926), "Bluestockings" tells the tale story of a love triangle between wealthy businessman Yuichiro (Etsushi Toyokawa), his wife Akiko (Kyoko Hasegawa), and Kiyoko (Yoshino Kimura).
Director: Masato Harada | Stars: Kyoko Hasegawa, Yoshino Kimura, Etsushi Toyokawa, Mark Chinnery
Votes: 45
39. The Intermission (2013)
112 min | Comedy
On the eve of the closure of a cinema, an examination of what this means for film and for Japan as a whole from the point-of-view of the viewing public and the cast who staffed many of the ... See full summary »
Director: Naofumi Higuchi | Stars: Kumiko Akiyoshi, Bin Furuya, Yôko Hatanaka, Shinji Higuchi
Votes: 14
40. Kunshô (1954)
120 min
Director: Minoru Shibuya | Stars: Eitarô Ozawa, Keiji Sada, Kyôko Kagawa, Eijirô Tôno
Votes: 11
41. Ginza Cosmetics (1951)
87 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Ranko Hanai, Yûji Hori, Kyôko Kagawa
Votes: 401
42. Swindle Detective (2019)
Mystery
Karen Imamiya is a detective who deals with fraud and scam cases. She arrests Hayato Kaji, who is involved in a voice phishing case. Karen and her colleagues do not know who is at the top ... See full summary »
Stars: Min Tanaka, Munetaka Aoki, Kyôko Kagawa, Fumino Kimura
Votes: 8
43. The Shiinomi School (1955)
100 min | Drama
Both the young sons of a professor are stricken by polio. The elder son dreams of starting a school for lame children and his father fulfills it. In the midst of an agile, outdoor daily life in this special school, one of the student dies.
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu | Stars: Kyôko Kagawa, Yukiko Shimazaki, Jûkichi Uno, Ranko Hanai
Votes: 80
44. Yagyû bugeichô: Sôryû hiken (1958)
105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is ... See full summary »
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Kôji Tsuruta, Toshirô Mifune, Nobuko Otowa, Yoshiko Kuga
Votes: 108
45. Kurosawa Akira: Tsukuru to iu koto wa subarashii (2002– )
45 min | Documentary, Biography
An in depth look at the making of Kurosawa's films.
Stars: Masayuki Yui, Yoshirô Muraki, Teruyo Nogami, Takao Saitô
Votes: 142
46. Tora-san's Dream of Spring (1979)
104 min | Comedy, Romance
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Kiyoshi Atsumi, Herb Edelman, Chieko Baishô, Masami Shimojô
Votes: 99
47. Aisureba koso (1955)
80 min
Directors: Tadashi Imai, Satsuo Yamamoto, Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Shinsuke Ashida, Yasumi Hara, Chieko Higashiyama, Satomi Hosono
Votes: 10
48. Mothra (1961)
Passed | 101 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
An expedition to Infant Island discovers a native population and tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity. Named Mothra, she sets out to rescue her fairies after they are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman.
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Furankî Sakai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kyôko Kagawa, Yumi Itô
Votes: 5,308
49. The Three Treasures (1959)
112 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A prince, framed for murder and starved for affection from his father, is sent on a quest.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Akihiko Hirata, Kyôko Kagawa
Votes: 368
50. A Cat and Two Women (1956)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A timid and aimless man's love for his cat is his only solace in a life dominated by his mother and the two women she chooses for him to marry.
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Yuko Minami
Votes: 155