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1. Rashomon (1950)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 180,622 | Gross: $0.10M
2. Ugetsu (1953)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito
Votes: 25,839 | Gross: $0.01M
3. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama
A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan
Votes: 4,834
4. Bad Girl (1949)
85 min | Drama
A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular "bad girl" and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Isamu Kosugi, Michiko Hoshi, Masayuki Mori, Akihiko Katayama
Votes: 11
5. 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
6. The Eternal Breasts (1955)
106 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a poetess. The beginning of her successful ... See full summary »
Director: Kinuyo Tanaka | Stars: Yumeji Tsukioka, Ryôji Hayama, Junkichi Orimoto, Hiroko Kawasaki
Votes: 639
7. 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
8. 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: 3,149
9. Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960)
123 min | Drama
The story of a family in Tokyo who live under the same roof in a large house and include the widowed sixty-year-old mother, older son and his wife, the youngest daughter and the older ... See full summary »
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Hideko Takamine, Reiko Dan
Votes: 418
10. Bushido (1963)
122 min | Action, Drama
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he remembers his gruesome family history, which sees his ancestors sacrificing themselves for the sake of their cruel lords, and realizes that he's about to repeat their mistakes.
Director: Tadashi Imai | Stars: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Eijirô Tôno, Kyôko Kishida, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 506
11. The Heart (1955)
120 min | Drama
At the end of Meiji era a young student befriend an older man who as a proof of trust but also as a kind of exorcism entrust him his secret, a story about jealousy, betrayal, shame and guilt.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Masayuki Mori, Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Mihashi, Shôji Yasui
Votes: 487
12. Anjô-ke no butôkai (1947)
89 min | Drama
After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the house before leaving. The ... See full summary »
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Yumeko Aizome, Osamu Takizawa, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 442
13. Untamed Woman (1957)
121 min | Drama
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Daisuke Katô, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 271
14. Bijo to touzoku (1952)
80 min | Adventure
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which ... See full summary »
Director: Keigo Kimura | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Rentarô Mikuni, Minoru Chiaki
Votes: 17
15. This Way, That Way (1952)
92 min | Comedy
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Yoshiko Kuga, Masayuki Mori, Mitsuko Mito, Chiharu Ôtomo
Votes: 22
16. Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Adventure, Action
Zatoichi meets an infamous blind leader of a gangster organization as he contends with a gloomy ronin widower.
Director: Kenji Misumi | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Reiko Ôhara, Pîtâ, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Votes: 1,554
17. Poignant Story (1961)
106 min | Drama
The real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, the hostess of a Ginza bar the family frequents.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Hideko Takamine, Chikage Awashima, Masayuki Mori, Tatsuya Nakadai
Votes: 212
18. Musashino fujin (1951)
88 min | Drama, Romance
Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become close.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Yukiko Todoroki, Masayuki Mori, Akihiko Katayama
Votes: 712
19. Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953)
86 min | Drama
In Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruse's adaptation of an oft-filmed popular novel by Saisei Murô, the eldest daughter (Machiko Kyô) of a rural family comes home pregnant, ... See full summary »
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga, Yûji Hori
Votes: 486
20. A Whistle in My Heart (1959)
126 min | Drama
In the outskirts of a city in Hokkaido, an indigenous Ainu family faces discrimination from their Japanese neighbors, as well as various inter-family problems.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Ken Yamauchi, Yoshiko Kôda, Masayuki Mori, Akira Takarada
Votes: 107
21. Kanikôsen (1953)
112 min | Drama
With Japan already suffering economically at the rise of Hirohito, the Depression adds to the tyrannical bullying by bosses,and outright kidnapping of needed labor. Can the working class achieve solidarity under these conditions?
Director: Sô Yamamura | Stars: Sô Yamamura, Sumiko Hidaka, Shôjirô Ogasawara, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 23
22. 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
23. The Balloon (1956)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub... See full summary »
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Masayuki Mori, Tatsuya Mihashi, Mie Kitahara, Sachiko Hidari
Votes: 308
24. Night Drum (1958)
95 min | Drama
When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders pay with their lives. However, the woman's husband blames himself for his wife's ... See full summary »
Director: Tadashi Imai | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Ineko Arima, Masayuki Mori, Sumiko Hidaka
Votes: 161
25. Yôkihi (1955)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, History, Romance
In 8th-century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the ... See full summary »
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura, Eitarô Shindô
Votes: 2,061
26. 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
27. Alone on the Pacific (1963)
104 min | Adventure
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Yûjirô Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ruriko Asaoka
Votes: 504
28. Northern Elegy (1957)
116 min | Drama
A young woman falls for a middle aged business man, but things get complicated when she also starts having feelings for his wife.
Director: Heinosuke Gosho | Stars: Yoshiko Kuga, Masayuki Mori, Mieko Takamine, Akira Ishihama
Votes: 115
29. Onna no kunshô (1961)
110 min | Drama
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Jirô Tamiya, Ayako Wakao, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 27
30. Gateway to Glory (1970)
122 min | Drama, War
Director: Mitsuo Murayama | Stars: Kichiemon Nakamura, Shôgo Shimada, Eiko Azusa, Jun Fujimaki
Votes: 60
31. Brother (1960)
98 min | Drama
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Keiko Kishi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 483
32. A Broken Drum (1949)
108 min | Comedy, Drama
A tyrannical father (the broken drum) squashes the dreams of his family.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Tsumasaburô Bandô, Sachiko Murase, Masayuki Mori, Chûji Kinoshita
Votes: 123
33. Admiral Yamamoto (1968)
131 min | Drama, War
A biography of one of the only beloved postwar figures of Japan's disastrous Pacific War. A common-sense soldier knows the war is doomed, but gamely goes ahead and does the best with what he's given.
Director: Seiji Maruyama | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa, Toshio Kurosawa
Votes: 212
34. Senba zuru (1953)
122 min | Drama
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Michiyo Kogure, Nobuko Otowa, Haruko Sugimura, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 15
35. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945)
Not Rated | 59 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
A Japanese general and his men disguise themselves as monks in order to pass an enemy border patrol.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Ken'ichi Enomoto, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 4,374
36. Love New and Old (1961)
82 min | Drama
A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Miyuki Kuwano, Yûsuke Kawazu, Masayuki Mori, Yumeji Tsukioka
Votes: 90
37. The Sun Above, Death Below (1968)
87 min | Crime, Drama
Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his employer.
Director: Hiromichi Horikawa | Stars: Yûzô Kayama, Ruriko Asaoka, Masayuki Mori, Jun Funato
Votes: 29
38. This Greedy Old Skin (1960)
108 min | Comedy
A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who makes a meagre living stripping taxicabs.
Director: Yasuki Chiba | Stars: Aiko Mimasu, Chinatsu Nakayama, Tadao Takashima, Hisako Hara
Votes: 7
39. Those Who Make Tomorrow (1946)
82 min | Drama
Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking railroad workers, ... See full summary »
Directors: Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Sekigawa, Kajirô Yamamoto | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Kenji Susukida, Masayuki Mori, Sumie Tsubaki
Votes: 203
40. Zen-ma (1951)
108 min | Drama
Two journalists and their lovers share an uncertain future.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Masayuki Mori, Chikage Awashima, Rentarô Mikuni, Yôko Katsuragi
Votes: 96
41. Onna keizu: Yushima no shiraume (1955)
116 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa | Stars: Fujiko Yamamoto, Kôji Tsuruta, Masayuki Mori, Sumiko Fujita
Votes: 19
42. Ningen gyorai shutsugekisu (1956)
85 min | Action, War
Director: Takumi Furukawa | Stars: Masayuki Mori, Ryôji Hayama, Yûjirô Ishihara, Toshizô Kudô
Votes: 13
43. The Most Beautiful Day of My Life (1948)
101 min | Drama
A retired officer who killed a pacifist governor becomes a dance club door man.
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Jûkichi Uno, Masao Inoue, Yoshi Katô, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 12
44. Nusumareta koi (1951)
102 min | Drama
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Michiko Katô, Asami Kuji, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 19
45. Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two (1945)
Not Rated | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Sugata returns to prove his judo mastery in a match against Western opponents.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata, Akitake Kôno
Votes: 2,708
46. Hikaru umi (1963)
125 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Kô Nakahira | Stars: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Mitsuo Hamada, Mieko Takamine, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 12
47. Raigekitai Shutsudô (1944)
95 min | Drama, War
Wartime film dealing with a Japanese torpedo bomber squadron at war.
The film opens with the Battle of Midway, The enemy carriers and ships are sunk with the IJN suffering minimal losses. ... See full synopsis »
Director: Kajirô Yamamoto | Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Katsuhiko Haida, Akitake Kôno
Votes: 45
48. Chijin no ai (1949)
89 min | Drama
Director: Keigo Kimura | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Jûkichi Uno, Masayuki Mori, Ichirô Sugai
49. Onna wa yoru kesshô suru (1961)
101 min
Director: Yoshio Inoue | Stars: Fujiko Yamamoto, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Masayuki Mori, Ken Uehara
50. Junpaku no yoru (1951)
106 min | Drama
A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the psychology of their marriage with elegant and a controversial touch. Love, art and suffering until the tragic and absurd ending.
Director: Hideo Ôba | Stars: Shûichi Doki, Seizaburô Kawazu, Michiyo Kogure, Yukio Mishima