Toshitaka Itō

Run, Genta, Run!

Tomotaka Tasaka

Ineko Arima, Michiyo Kogure

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.

あゝ野麦峠

Satsuo Yamamoto

Shinobu Ōtake, Mieko Harada

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.

青葉繁れる

Kihachi Okamoto

Masao Kusakari, Yoshitaka Tanba

Based on the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue.

食卓のない家

Masaki Kobayashi

Tatsuya Nakadai, Mayumi Ogawa

One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths. Although the parents of all the other perpetrators have either resigned from their professional positions or taken their own lives, Nobuyuki Kidoji tries to remain adamant that he was not responsible for his son's actions.

Mount Hakkoda

Shirô Moritani

Ken Takakura, Hideji Ôtaki

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.

大空のサムライ

Seiji Maruyama

Hiroshi Fujioka, Tarō Shigaki

Cold Rice, Osan, Chan

Tomotaka Tasaka

Kinnosuke Nakamura, Yoshiko Mita

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

べらんめえ芸者

Eiichi Koishi

Hibari Misora, Shinjirô Ehara

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argument between their two fathers. Can their love survive in spite of the bitterness between their two families?

男はつらいよ　寅次郎かもめ歌

Yoji Yamada

Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho

After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.

あゝ予科練

Shinji Murayama

Koji Tsuruta, Teruhiko Saigô

The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.

連合艦隊

Shûe Matsubayashi

Keiju Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Nagashima

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.

ブルークリスマス

Kihachi Okamoto

Hiroshi Katsuno, Keiko Takeshita

UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.

戦国自衛隊

Kōsei Saitō

Shin'ichi Chiba, Jun Etô

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.

沖田総司

Masanobu Deme

Masao Kusakari, Kyôko Maya

Personal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

吶喊

Kihachi Okamoto

Tsutomu Hiura, Toshitaka Itō

During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate in order to fight Imperial troops. But Sentaro's friendship with a pickpocket, who switches sides whenever it suits his needs, leads to complications that could cost Sentaro his life as they infiltrate enemy lines.

狼の紋章

Masashi Matsumoto

Tarō Shigaki, Yōko Ichiji

Enigmatic teenager Akira Inugami is, by night, a powerful werewolf, who falls for a beautiful young teacher, and copes with a ruthless teen gang leader, whose yakuza father murdered Akira's parents years before.