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1. Tampopo (1985)
Not Rated | 114 min | Comedy
A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.
Director: Jûzô Itami | Stars: Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Koji Yakusho
Votes: 22,627 | Gross: $0.22M
2. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada
Votes: 10,727
3. Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
Depicts the early life of the legendary warrior Musashi Miyamoto; his years as an aspiring warrior, an outlaw and finally a true samurai.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentarô Mikuni, Kurôemon Onoe
Votes: 9,520
4. Late Autumn (1960)
Not Rated | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada
Votes: 6,193
5. Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)
TV-PG | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
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.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa
Votes: 6,969
6. Floating Clouds (1955)
123 min | Drama, Romance
A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada, Isao Yamagata
Votes: 3,154
7. Eros + Massacre (1969)
Not Rated | 216 min | Biography, Drama
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Yûko Kusunoki, Kazuko Inano
Votes: 2,324
8. The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)
159 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Tsunehiko Watase, Masaomi Kondô
Votes: 594
9. A Taxing Woman (1987)
127 min | Comedy, Crime
If tax evasion is an art, wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo is Rembrandt. And so, a determined taxing woman gets the tough assignment of trying to catch him.
Director: Jûzô Itami | Stars: Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masahiko Tsugawa, Yasuo Daichi
Votes: 2,249
10. Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)
TV-PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Musashi Miyamoto is challenged to a duel by a confident swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. He agrees to fight him in a year's time.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa
Votes: 6,707
11. Yagyû ichizoku no inbô (1978– )
Action
Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Etsuko Shihomi, Yumi Takigawa, Ryô Tamura
Votes: 55
12. Proof of the Man (1977)
100 min | Crime, Drama
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police Detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York City. There he is joined by Detective Shuftan, and together they sort out the crime.
Director: Jun'ya Satô | Stars: George Kennedy, Mariko Okada, Yûsaku Matsuda, Broderick Crawford
Votes: 443
13. A Story Written with Water (1965)
120 min | Drama
A young man who's about to marry is torn between his fiancée and the love for his mother. His past, dreams and desires unfold simultaneously.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Yasunori Irikawa, Ruriko Asaoka, Isao Yamagata
Votes: 443
14. Heroic Purgatory (1970)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy
An engineer's wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and reality.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Kaizo Kamoda, Kazumi Tsutsui, Naho Kimura
Votes: 837
15. Flowing (1956)
117 min | Drama
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta ... See full summary »
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takamine, Mariko Okada
Votes: 1,192
16. The Affair (1967)
97 min | Drama, Romance
A woman, unhappily married to a cheating executive, starts meeting her dead mother's lover and gets thrown into a romantic dilemma after succumbing to a rough laborer.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Yoshie Minami, Tadahiko Sugano, Shigako Shimegi
Votes: 439
17. Akitsu Springs (1962)
113 min | Drama, Romance
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato, Sô Yamamura, Jûkichi Uno
Votes: 1,191
18. The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979)
113 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Ikkô Furuya, Kunie Tanaka, Miyoko Akaza, Chiyonosuke Azuma
Votes: 137
19. My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? (2005)
107 min | Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infected by pictures. People, once infected, come down with the disease, which ... See full summary »
Director: Shinji Aoyama | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Aoi Miyazaki, Mariko Okada, Masaya Nakahara
Votes: 627
20. Woman of the Lake (1966)
102 min | Drama
A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Tamotsu Hayakawa, Keiko Natsu
Votes: 727
21. Tetsuko no heya (1976– )
35 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Meiko Nakamura, Makoto Ôtake, Tomio Umezawa
Votes: 33
22. I Am a Cat (1975)
116 min | Comedy, Drama
The cat of the title roams around the house of a poor schoolteacher in the late 19th century, observing the goings-on of the teacher and his neighbors.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kuriko Hano, Jûzô Itami, Nobuto Okamoto
Votes: 262
23. The Geisha House (1998)
113 min | Drama
Young Tokiko works at a geisha house as a maid, waiting for her maiko practice (apprenticeship of geisha) to begin. The movie depicts detailed lifestyle of geishas at that time, showing their rules, loves, beauties and humanities.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Maki Miyamoto, Sumiko Fuji, Kaho Minami, Mai Kitajima
Votes: 257
24. Coup d'Etat (1973)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Yasuo Miyake, Akiko Kurano, Tadahiko Sugano
Votes: 536
25. Asunaro monogatari (1955)
109 min
Director: Hiromichi Horikawa | Stars: Akira Kubo, Isao Kimura, Yoshiko Kuga, Mariko Okada
Votes: 35
26. Illusion of Blood (1965)
105 min | Fantasy, Horror
A samurai warrior is haunted by the spirit of his first wife.
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mariko Okada, Junko Ikeuchi, Mayumi Ôzora
Votes: 322
27. The Scent of Incense (1964)
88 min | Drama
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Mariko Okada, Takeshi Katô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eiji Okada
Votes: 98
28. Husband and Wife (1953)
87 min | Drama
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Ken Uehara, Yôko Sugi, Rentarô Mikuni, Keiju Kobayashi
Votes: 188
29. Farewell to the Summer Light (1968)
96 min | Drama, Romance
A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic bombings. The two protagonists travel around Europe trying to find themselves.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Tadashi Yokouchi, Paul Beauvais, Hélène Soubielle
Votes: 264
30. Appassionata (1984)
129 min | Biography, Drama
Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school.
Director: Sadao Nakajima | Stars: Mariko Okada, Yûko Natori, Morio Kazama, Kei Satô
Votes: 45
31. Tsuma futari (1967)
94 min | Drama, Mystery
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Mariko Okada, Kôji Takahashi, Takao Itô
Votes: 77
32. Yagyû bugeichô (1957)
106 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: Toshirô Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga, Kyôko Kagawa, Mariko Okada
Votes: 155
33. Sanada Taiheiki (1985–1986)
Drama, History
Based on Shôtarô Ikenami's novel by the same title. The drama focuses on the history of the Sanada clan during the late Sengoku period.
Stars: Yûki Kudô, Tetsurô Tanba, Mariko Okada, Keiko Tsushima
Votes: 26
34. 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: 109
35. Confessions Among Actresses (1971)
124 min | Drama
The lives of three movie actresses unfold, transform and get exposed. Each of them owes their choice of profession to a respective traumatic event.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Ruriko Asaoka, Ineko Arima, Miyoko Akaza
Votes: 266
36. This Year's Love (1962)
82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister Mikako at first sight. Although she gave the cold shoulder to Tadashi, she gradually became fond of Tadashi.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Mariko Okada, Teruo Yoshida, Masakazu Tamura, Ryûji Ishikawa
Votes: 46
37. Affair in the Snow (1968)
97 min | Drama, Romance
In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover, and her ex-boyfriend, who she had platonic feelings for.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Isao Kimura, Yukio Ninagawa, Miyoko Akaza
Votes: 322
38. Flame and Women (1967)
101 min | Drama
A sterile man arranges for his disapproving wife to receive artificial insemination, after which she starts nourishing a strong desire for the child's biological father.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Isao Kimura, Mayumi Ogawa, Takeshi Kusaka
Votes: 254
39. Kagami no onna-tachi (2002)
129 min | Drama
Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Yoshiko Tanaka, Sae Isshiki, Hideo Murota
Votes: 249
40. Shishunki (1952)
Drama
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
Director: Seiji Maruyama | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Mariko Okada, Akira Kubo, Tatsuyoshi Ehara
41. Saraba Rabauru (1954)
106 min | War, Romance
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots at a lonely Rabaul airbase realises that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have little regard for... See full summary »
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Okada, Rentarô Mikuni, Chieko Nakakita
Votes: 63
42. Nihon no jingi (1977)
106 min | Action, Crime
Director: Sadao Nakajima | Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Shin'ichi Chiba, Kôji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada
Votes: 22
43. Making of 'Tampopo' (1986 Video)
87 min | Documentary
Director: Toshirô Uratani | Stars: Toshiya Fujita, Isao Hashizume, Seigo Hosogoe, Hisashi Igawa
Votes: 29
44. Conquest (1982)
142 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the pieces and carry on the legacy.
Director: Sadao Nakajima | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Bunta Sugawara, Tomisaburô Wakayama
Votes: 43
45. Kôge - Nibu: Mitsumata no shô (1964)
116 min | Drama
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Takeshi Katô, Eiji Okada, Mariko Okada, Haruko Sugimura
Votes: 18
46. When It Rains, It Pours (1957)
105 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Noboru Nakamura | Stars: Sadako Sawamura, Mariko Okada, Masami Taura, Miyuki Kuwano
Votes: 31
47. Sing, Young People! (1963)
86 min | Comedy
A college student receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Tsutomu Matsukawa, Yûsuke Kawazu, Shin'ichirô Mikami, Kei Yamamoto
Votes: 77
48. Koi-gesho (1955)
82 min | Comedy
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Hiroshi Koizumi, Fubuki Koshiji, Mariko Okada
Votes: 15
49. Kindaichi Kôsuke shirîzu: Hakurô no shibijin (2004 TV Movie)
114 min | Mystery
Director: Atsushi Yamamoto | Stars: Mariko Okada, Aya Sugimoto, Kôji Shimizu, Satoshi Hashimoto
50. Radishes and Carrots (1965)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Minoru Shibuya | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Nobuko Otowa, Mariko Kaga, Isao Yamagata
Votes: 33