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1. Castle in the Sky (1986)
PG | 125 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Mayumi Tanaka, Keiko Yokozawa, Kotoe Hatsui, Minori Terada
Votes: 182,091
2. Cleopatra (1970)
X | 112 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
To decipher a scheme plotted by enemy aliens, three agents from the future travel to Cleopatra's time, where they witness her romances with Caesar and Mark Antony.
Directors: Osamu Tezuka, Eiichi Yamamoto | Stars: Chinatsu Nakayama, Kotoe Hatsui, Tsubame Yanagiya, Nobuo Tsukamoto
Votes: 850
3. Pigs and Battleships (1961)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 2,586
4. Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song (1973)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Once again on the lam, Matsu is helped by a strip club worker who holds a grudge against the detective who's trying to find her.
Director: Yasuharu Hasebe | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Masakazu Tamura, Yumi Kanei, Hiroshi Tsukata
Votes: 1,599
5. Story of a Prostitute (1965)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War
In WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Tamio Kawaji, Yumiko Nogawa, Isao Tamagawa, Shôichi Ozawa
Votes: 1,594
6. Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)
Not Rated | 79 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Michitarô Mizushima, Misako Watanabe, Shôichi Ozawa, Shinsuke Ashida
Votes: 1,172
7. Ballad of Orin (1977)
109 min | Drama
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on people's behavior.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Yoshio Harada, Tomoko Naraoka, Kirin Kiki
Votes: 644
8. Rakuyôju (1986)
105 min | Drama
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Keiju Kobayashi, Nobuko Otowa, Ichirô Zaitsu, Meiko Kaji
Votes: 1,082
9. Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970)
120 min | Drama
After leaving high school, Michio Yamada (Norio Nagayama in the real life incidents) becomes involved in the shudan shushoku, a post-war Japanese government work program which involves ... See full summary »
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Daijirô Harada, Nobuko Otowa, Keiko Torii, Kiwako Taichi
Votes: 197
10. Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! (1963)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Police detective Tajima, tasked with tracking down stolen firearms, turns an underworld grudge into a blood-bath. Suzuki transforms a colorful pot-boiler into an on-target send-up of cultural colonialism and post-war greed.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Jô Shishido, Tamio Kawaji, Reiko Sasamori, Nobuo Kaneko
Votes: 981
11. Kôsatsu (1979)
116 min | Drama
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Kô Nishimura, Nobuko Otowa, Tsutomu Kariba, Akemi Negishi
Votes: 102
12. Everything Goes Wrong (1960)
71 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, with the lover of the latter and with a girl in love with him.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Tamio Kawaji, Yoshiko Nezu, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Shinako Nakagawa
Votes: 582
13. The House of the Sleeping Virgins (1968)
95 min
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills... See full summary »
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Takahiro Tamura, Yoshiko Kayama, Taiji Tonoyama, Sanae Nakahara
Votes: 14
14. Poruno no teiô (1971)
88 min | Crime
Umemiya stars as a sexist son-of-a-bitch yakuza involved with the sex business.
Director: Makoto Naitô | Stars: Tatsuo Umemiya, Shingo Yamashiro, Tomoko Mayama, Naoko Fujiyama
15. Konketsuji Rika (1972)
92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.
Director: Kô Nakahira | Stars: Rika Aoki, Kazuko Nagamoto, Masami Souda, Michi Nono
Votes: 259
16. Imôto (1974)
92 min | Drama, Romance
Akio's sister, Neri has separated from her boyfriend. They lived in Kamakura. She moves in with her brother. Her ex-boyfriend's sister, Eiko comes to see Neri. She wonders if the separation... See full summary »
Director: Toshiya Fujita | Stars: Kumiko Akiyoshi, Ryûzô Hayashi, Yumiko Fujita, Takenori Murano
Votes: 56
17. Voice Without a Shadow (1958)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ishikawa, a newspaper journalist, unexpectedly meets Asako, a woman who used to work for his company some time ago as a phone operator. Three years ago, she accidentally heard the voice of ... See full summary »
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Yôko Minamida, Hideaki Nitani, Nobuo Kaneko, Toshio Takahara
Votes: 301
18. Dark Room (1983)
122 min | Drama, Romance
Nakata, a writer, lives with the painful memory of the death of his wife, whose life was cut short a few years earlier. Was it an accident or was it suicide? Doubt persists. In order to ... See full summary »
Director: Kiriô Urayama | Stars: Kôji Shimizu, Rie Kimura, Mayumi Miura, Yoshimi Ashikawa
Votes: 76
19. Nishi Ginza Station (1958)
52 min | Comedy, Drama
While his wife and children are away on holiday, a henpecked, daydreaming pharmacist begins a flirtatious relationship with the pretty girl in the boutique opposite. Almost a Japanese screwball comedy.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Frank Nagai, Shin'ichi Yanagisawa, Hisano Yamaoka, Masahiko Shimazu
Votes: 344
20. Smashing the 0-Line (1960)
Not Rated | 83 min | Action, Crime
Two reporters of divergent morals investigate a drug ring, delving deeper into the underworld in the process.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Yûji Odaka, Mayumi Shimizu, Sanae Nakahara
Votes: 172
21. Hymn (1972)
112 min | Drama
The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind Shamisen teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel beatings.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Tokuko Watanabe, Jiro Kawarazaki, Daijirô Harada
Votes: 117
22. Temptation (1957)
91 min | Comedy
The middle-aged Shokichi, shop owner and widower, could never forget his first love. One day, Akiko, a painter, appears in the gallery with the painting titled "Woman". Shokichi surprised to find that painting is actually his first love.
Director: Kô Nakahira | Stars: Hideyo Amamoto, Tomio Aoki, Reiko Arai, Izumi Ashikawa
Votes: 60
23. The Sleeping Beast Within (1960)
Not Rated | 86 min | Action, Crime
A businessman returns from an extended trip, but something seems off. Criminal operations and religious cults come into play, while the man's daughter and her journalist boyfriend race to find the truth.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Shinsuke Ashida, Kô Nishimura
Votes: 210
24. Yanusu no kagami (1985–1986)
Drama, Thriller
Stars: Miyuki Sugiura, Kotoe Hatsui, Shinji Yamashita, Chikako Kaku
25. Fudôtoku kyôiku kôza (1959)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
Debauchee pretends to be a high-ranking official and tries to take advantage of that position to live his life as he pleases.
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa | Stars: Shirô Ôsaka, Kinzô Shin, Hiroyuki Nagato, Mayumi Kiyokawa
Votes: 10
26. Rica 3: Juvenile Lullabay (1973)
85 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from corrupt reform schools? Rica could be ... See full summary »
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Rika Aoki, Jiro Kawarazaki, Taiji Tonoyama, Kotoe Hatsui
Votes: 108
27. Age of Nudity (1959)
54 min | Action, Crime
The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. However, everything gets screwed up when they accidentally steal big bucks from the Yakuza.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Keiichirô Akagi, Kyôko Hori, Bokuzen Hidari, Saburo Fujimaki
Votes: 91
28. Shiosai (1975)
93 min | Drama, Romance
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about ... See full summary »
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa | Stars: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Ichirô Arishima, Keiko Tsushima
Votes: 64
29. Chikuzan hitori tabi (1977)
119 min | Drama
After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s the rough-hewn blind shamisien player and folk-song collector named Chikuzan became a musical sensation. This ... See full summary »
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Ryûzô Hayashi, Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Baishô, Dai Kanai
Votes: 110
30. The Last Song (1975)
94 min | Romance
Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his father's wishes, Junkichi decides to run away with Koyuki to start a new.
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa | Stars: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Shirô Ôsaka, Tokue Hanazawa
Votes: 74
31. Abayo dachikô (1974)
95 min | Action, Crime
When Takeo Natsuki with his two sidekick troublemakers meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site, they come up with their own plans to solve the problem.
Director: Yukihiro Sawada | Stars: Yûsaku Matsuda, Kenzô Kawarasaki, Masaaki Okado, Eiji Gô
Votes: 23
32. The Young Boss (1967)
79 min | Action, Crime
Action film about young outlaws around the year 1910.
Director: Motomu Ida | Stars: Hideki Takahashi, Yôko Yamamoto, Kotoe Hatsui, Kenjirô Ishiyama
Votes: 18
33. Teenage Yakuza (1962)
Not Rated | 72 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A high school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighboring city.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Tamio Kawaji, Noriko Matsumoto, Keiko Sugiyama, Kayo Matsuo
Votes: 156
34. Keirin shônin gyôjyôki (1963)
One summer day, the priest of the Hojuuin Temple dies. As soon as he hears the news, Harumichi returns to town and organizes a grand funeral. He was never willing to take over the family ... See full summary »
Director: Shôgorô Nishimura | Stars: Eimei Esumi, Toyo Fukuda, Kotoe Hatsui, Hiroshi Hijikata
Votes: 15
35. Bakuhatsu! Boso zoku (1975)
86 min | Action, Crime
Wild-hearted mechanic boy Iwaki falls in love with the innocent but gang tied Michiko.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Kôichi Iwaki, Tomoko Ai, Junko Matsudaira
Votes: 30
36. Seishun no mon: Jiritsu hen (1977)
161 min | Drama
Director: Kiriô Urayama | Stars: Ken Tanaka, Shinobu Ôtake, Ayumi Ishida, Tatsuo Umemiya
Votes: 11
37. Location (1984)
99 min
Melodramatic story of a pink eiga film crew's tragi-comedic adventures on location as they struggle to complete the film and how their personal lives touch their professional lives.
Director: Azuma Morisaki | Stars: Toshiyuki Nishida, Michiyo Yasuda, Jun Miho, Akira Emoto
Votes: 18
38. Blood-Red Water in the Channel (1961)
85 min | Action, Crime
Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coast guard action stories" was the perfect... See full summary »
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Kôji Wada, Ryôji Hayama, Yuriko Hanabusa, Mayumi Shimizu
Votes: 31
39. Keiji monogatari (1982)
110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Director: Yûsuke Watanabe | Stars: Tetsuya Takeda, Hisayo Ariga, Noboru Nakaya, Mariko Endo
Votes: 48
40. The Crest of Man (1964)
119 min | Drama
Miko meets Mako when she was hospitalized for a bone cancer. They start writing to each other and continue to do it after she is hospitalized again.
Director: Buichi Saitô | Stars: Mitsuo Hamada, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Chishû Ryû, Tanie Kitabayashi
Votes: 27
41. Waga michi (1974)
130 min | Drama
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Rokkô Toura, Dai Kanai
Votes: 40
42. Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women (1963)
99 min | Action, Crime
Director: Nozomu Yanase | Stars: Jô Shishido, Ryôji Hayama, Reiko Sasamori, Nobuo Kaneko
43. The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass (1961)
Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Kôji Wada, Mayumi Shimizu, Nobuo Kaneko, Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Votes: 94
44. Tora-san, the Go-between (1985)
108 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Mitsuru Hirata, Masami Shimojô
Votes: 74
45. Tokyo Megure Keishi (1978)
54 min | Mystery
The Japanese adaptations of Georges Simenon's Maigret novels relocating the plots to 1978 Tokyo.
Stars: Kin'ya Aikawa, Nobuo Kaneko, Atsuo Nakamura, Fujio Tokita
46. Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu (1978– )
55 min | Drama
Stars: Momoe Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Saburô Shinoda, Yûsuke Natsu
47. Daitokai - Tatakai no hibi (1976– )
54 min | Action, Drama
Sergeant Raisuke Kuroiwa (Tetsuya Watari) and the Kuroiwa Force, a special Flying Squad-esque division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police solves crimes and cracks down on their perpetrators.
Stars: Tetsuya Watari, Kaku Takashina, Takehiko Ono, Yûjirô Ishihara
Votes: 10
48. Burakkubôdo (1986)
110 min | Drama
Black Board tells the story of middle school bullying taken to the point of homicide.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Terutake Tsuji, Nobuko Otowa, Kazuki Minabuchi, Leo Morimoto
Votes: 53
49. Ai to shi no katami (1962)
Director: Buichi Saitô | Stars: Ruriko Asaoka, Hiroyuki Nagato, Yûji Odaka, Sumiko Minami
50. The Horizon (1984)
136 min | Drama
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Toshiyuki Nagashima, Miwako Fujitani, Nobuko Otowa, Kumiko Akiyoshi
Votes: 12