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1.
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (1974–1979)
Episode:
A Cane-Sword Burning in Anger
(1976)
Action, Adventure, Drama
A yakuza gang leader has a man killed so that he can steal the man's wife. The only hitch in this plan is Zatoichi.
Director: Shintarô Katsu | Stars: Kenji Imai, Shintarô Katsu, Kôjirô Kusanagi, Kyôko Maya
Votes: 6
2. Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)
G | 93 min | Biography, Drama, Family
Professor Wilson discovers a lost Akita puppy on his way home. Despite objections from his wife, Hachi endears himself to the family and grows to be Parker's loyal companion. As their bond grows deeper, a beautiful relationship unfolds.
Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Richard Gere, Joan Allen, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Sarah Roemer
Votes: 310,002
3. Hachi-ko (1987)
107 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The true story about a dog's loyalty to its master, even after his death.
Director: Seijirô Kôyama | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kaoru Yachigusa, Toshinori Omi, Toshirô Yanagiba
Votes: 5,808
4. The Naked Island (1960)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka, Masanori Horimoto
Votes: 6,140
5. Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)
96 min | Drama, Mystery, War
One woman's search to find the truth about her husband's death in World War II.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Sachiko Hidari, Shinjirô Ebara, Isao Natsuyagi
Votes: 1,162
6. Onibaba (1964)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô, Jûkichi Uno
Votes: 21,700
7. Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (1974–1979)
45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Blind masseur Zatôichi travels from town to town gambling, drinking, and fighting off the local gangs.
Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Renji Ishibashi, Keizô Kanie, Shintarô Akatsuki
Votes: 257
8. Shokkaku (1970)
104 min | Drama
A film that explores sexual instincts, centering on the psychological conflicts between a mother and son, and between a son and his lover.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi, Jiro Daimaru, Daigo Kusano
Votes: 14
9. Black Cat (1968)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Horror
Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô, Rokkô Toura
Votes: 8,527
10. Seisaku's Wife (1965)
93 min | Drama, Romance, War
On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Takahiro Tamura, Nobuo Chiba, Yûzô Hayakawa
Votes: 668
11. 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: 1,080
12. The Beauty and the Dragon (1955)
106 min | Fantasy
Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempts a self righteous priest.
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Chiyonosuke Azuma, Nobuko Otowa, Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Yoshizaburo Arashi
Votes: 13
13. Heat Wave Island (1969)
103 min | Drama
Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Jûzô Itami, Daigo Kusano, Ichirô Sugai
Votes: 16
14. Onna no saka (1960)
107 min | Drama
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada, Nobuko Otowa, Kunitarô Sawamura
Votes: 14
15. Children of Hiroshima (1952)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, War
Post war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to call on old friends.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Osamu Takizawa, Masao Shimizu, Jûkichi Uno
Votes: 1,369
16. Operation Negligee (1968)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Eiko Yamagishi, Taiji Tonoyama, Hideo Kanze
Votes: 18
17. Yukie (1998)
93 min | Drama, Romance
Romance story about a Korean War veteran and his undying love for a beautiful Japanese nurse.
Director: Hisako Matsui | Stars: Mitsuko Baishô, Bo Svenson, Joe Chrest, Richard Ken Mustered
Votes: 50
18. I Lived, But... (1983)
123 min | Documentary
A documentary about Ozu's life and career.
Director: Kazuo Inoue | Stars: Ineko Arima, Chikage Awashima, Shôhei Imamura, Shima Iwashita
Votes: 247
19. The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)
99 min | Drama, History
The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Hideko Takamine, Yûnosuke Itô
Votes: 216
20. The Tale of the Blue Beka Boat (1962)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Eijirô Tôno, Sachiko Hidari, Nobuko Otowa
Votes: 17
21. 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: 443
22. Human (1962)
117 min | Drama
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô, Kei Yamamoto
Votes: 221
23. Dobu (1954)
111 min | Drama
Postwar Tokyo. Pin (Jukichi Uno) and Toku (Taiji Tonoyama) live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Ranko Akagi, Kamatari Fujiwara, Bokuzen Hidari, Noriko Honma
Votes: 119
24. Ronin of Ako (1961)
151 min | Action, Drama
A famous story of the 47 loyal samurai. When Lord Asano is unjustly executed, his loyal retainers strike back for revenge.
Director: Sadatsugu Matsuda | Stars: Kusuo Abe, Kyôko Aoyama, Chiyonosuke Azuma, Shinobu Chihara
Votes: 35
25. Onna no issho (1953)
136 min | Drama
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Koreya Senda, Jûkichi Uno, Akira Yamanouchi
Votes: 14
26. Ashizuri misaki (1954)
108 min | Drama
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Isao Kimura, Keiko Tsushima, Shin Morikawa, Ranko Akagi
Votes: 12
27.
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (1974–1979)
Episode:
Autumn Road for a Weeping Maid
(1976)
Action, Adventure, Drama
Zatoichi assists a girl who has just been sold to a brothel.
Director: Akikazu Ota | Stars: Nishiki Imadegawa, Kikuo Kaneuchi, Shintarô Katsu, Atsuko Kawaguchi
Votes: 5
28. The Graceful Brute (1962)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Yûnosuke Itô, Hisano Yamaoka, Yûko Hamada
Votes: 391
29. Flame of My Love (1949)
96 min | Drama, Romance
A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, ... See full summary »
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Votes: 479
30. 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: 160
31. Ôkami (1955)
127 min | Drama
Time; a few years after the surrender of Japan in the Second World War. The country is in ruins, economy devastated, and the vulnerable masses deprived of work; let alone the basic ... See full summary »
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Sanae Takasugi, Taiji Tonoyama, Jun Hamamura
Votes: 109
32. 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: 116
33. The Horizon (1984)
136 min | Drama
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Toshiyuki Nagashima, Miwako Fujitani, Nobuko Otowa, Kumiko Akiyoshi
Votes: 12
34. Harukanaru sôro (1980)
134 min | Biography, Drama, History
Director: Jun'ya Satô | Stars: Kôshirô Matsumoto, Masakane Yonekura, Takahiro Tamura, Yôko Tsukasa
Votes: 9
35. Nishijin no shimai (1952)
Drama
A family of silkweavers are hit hard by industrialization.
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Yumiko Miyagino, Mitsuko Miura, Yûko Tsumura, Kinuyo Tanaka
Votes: 13
36. Eiga kantoku tte nanda! (2006)
88 min | Documentary
Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Kyôko Koizumi, Yusuke Narita, Shirô Sano, Maki Ishikawa
Votes: 12
37. The 47 Ronin (1941)
241 min | Drama, History
The legendary Forty-seven ronin plot to avenge the death of their lord, Asano Naganori, by killing Kira Yoshinaka, a shogunate official responsible for Asano being forced to commit seppuku.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Utaemon Ichikawa, Kan'emon Nakamura
Votes: 2,664
38. Irezumi (1966)
86 min | Drama
A seductive woman gets kidnapped into prostitution. After getting a spider tattoo made on her back, she grows vengeful, leaving several men in her path.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Akio Hasegawa, Gaku Yamamoto, Kei Satô
Votes: 1,340
39. Sanmon yakusha (2000)
126 min | Drama, Romance
Film inspired by the life of Japanese actor Taiji Tonoyama, with whom Kaneto Shindo had worked on many occasions, with the help of archive images and fragments of the most famous films of ... See full summary »
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Naoto Takenaka, Keiko Oginome, Hideko Yoshida, Nobuko Otowa
Votes: 127
40. Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (1966)
Not Rated | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Michiyo Yasuda, Kunie Tanaka, Hisashi Igawa
Votes: 1,190
41. Akutô (1965)
119 min | Drama, History
A morally-suspect and self-serving retainer rashly baits her high-ranking employer, a regional governor, with a salacious story of a former acquaintance and catastrophe ensues.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Kyôko Kishida, Eitarô Ozawa, Isao Kimura
Votes: 110
42. 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: 325
43. Lost Sex (1966)
97 min | Drama
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Hideo Kanze, Nobuko Otowa, Eimei Esumi, Daigo Kusano
Votes: 27
44. Thousand Cranes (1969)
96 min | Drama, Romance
The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Machiko Kyô, Mikijirô Hira, Eiko Azusa
Votes: 48
45. Devil's Temple (1969)
76 min | Drama
An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women, and a vicious killer.
Director: Kenji Misumi | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Hideko Takamine, Michiyo Aratama, Kei Satô
Votes: 173
46. Clothes of Deception (1951)
103 min | Drama
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Yasuko Fujita, Keiju Kobayashi, Emiko Yanagi
Votes: 97
47. Epitome (1953)
131 min | Drama
Shusei Tokuda's starkly realistic novel about a poor girl pressed into becoming a geisha was forcefully adapted by Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba). When Ginko (Nobuko Otowa, Shindo's wife) falls in... See full summary »
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Sumiko Hidaka, Isuzu Yamada, Sô Yamamura
Votes: 120
48. Tadare (1962)
88 min | Drama
Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adaptation by Kaneto Shindo, Masumura Yasuzo directs. A battle of woman competing for the same man. Masuko (Ayako Wakao) is the number one ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Jirô Tamiya, Yaeko Mizutani, Eiji Funakoshi
Votes: 64
49. 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: 75
50. Ginza no onna (1955)
Ikuyo is the boss of Shizumoto, a geisha residence that employs four other women. All of them, simultaneously, reveal the extreme hardships of the profession. From the frustrated search for... See full summary »
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Sumiko Hidaka, Yukiko Todoroki, Jô Shishido
Votes: 39