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Fires on the Plain
Japanese Movie - 19597.6
An agonizing portrait of desperate Japanese soldiers stranded in a strange land during World War II, a compelling descent into psychological and physical oblivion. Denied hospital treatment for tuberculosis and cast…
The Idiot
Japanese Movie - 19517.6
After narrowly escaping death during the recent war, Kameda returns to Japan from Okinawa, where he has been confined to an asylum. Because he is subject to seizures of epilepsy, he is considered to be mentally ill.…
A Bloody Spear on Mount Fuji
Japanese Movie - 19557.6
A young samurai, Sawaka Kojuro, travels on the Tokaido to Edo with his two servants, Genta and Gonpachi. Gonpachi has been told by Shojuro's mother to prevent his Master from drinking... The road is not safe. On the…
Swords in the Moonlight 1
Japanese Movie - 19577.6
Set in the chaotic and transitory late Edo Period, the story follows the nihilistic antihero Ryunosuke Tsukue, a psychotic samurai who senselessly massacres a helpless pilgrim in the opening scene. From this point on…
Swords in the Moonlight 2
Japanese Movie - 19587.6
In the second episode of the trilogy, samurai Ryunosuke’s circumstances change: now blinded, he struggles to make a living as a mendicant flute-player. Otoyo, a woman whose husband was killed by Ryunosuke, works to…
Swords in the Moonlight 3
Japanese Movie - 19597.6
In this final episode, Ryunosuke, a psychotic samurai, is in Kofu (west of the Japanese capital of Edo, as Tokyo was then known), where he is employed to test a new sword each evening by killing a passerby. But the ghosts…
Fencing Master
Japanese Movie - 19507.6
Written by one of cinema's greatest directors, Kurosawa Akira, Tateshi Danpei is a story about the fight to keep the art of the samurai sword fighting scene alive in a Japan that is becoming ever more modern
Tokyo Profile
Japanese Movie - 19537.5
A little girl named Michiko gets lost from her mom in the neighborhood of Ginza. A friendly couple, a sign carrier and and a shoe-shine girl, start helping her. The mother is simultaneously looking for the lost child.…
Red Pier
Japanese Movie - 19587.5
50s subculture icon Yujiro Ishihara (Crazed Fruit) stars in Masuda's Red Pier as "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent. Shortly after arriving in Kobe, he witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns…
Eight Hours Of Terror
Japanese Movie - 19577.5
A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers. (Source: TMDB)
Gate of Hell
Japanese Movie - 19537.5
It tells the story of a samurai who tries to marry a woman he rescues, only to discover that she is already married to someone else. Filmed using Eastmancolor film, Gate of Hell was both Daiei Film's first color film…
Ikebana
Japanese Movie - 19567.5
The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the director's father Teshigahara Sofu worked as the grand master of the school.
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Japanese Movie - 19547.4
The movie is about the joys and struggles of a young couple living and working with the husband’s family. Roychi is a responsible and dedicates shop owner; his wife is making her best to fit in the new family; the…
The Guiding Light
Hong Kong Movie - 19537.2
13-year old Bruce Lee plays San, a child up for adoption. Finally accepted by his surrogate parents, he is faced with a dilemma when his real parents show up and want him back. (IMDB)
The Palace of Ambition
Korean Movie - 19577.4
A nobleman bribes a maidservant to gain access to the palace and poison the crown prince. Another noble, loyal to the royal family, learns the of the plot and must learn the identity of the would-be assassin before he…
The Munekata Sisters
Japanese Movie - 19507.3
Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back…
The Ghost Story of Yotsuya
Japanese Movie - 19597.4
A greedy young warrior plots to murder his wife by mixing poison into her tea. Her health deteriorates into a slow agonizing death. From the afterlife, she takes her revenge on her murderer's sanity through a series…
Sword for Hire
Japanese Movie - 19527.4
Soldiers Satsuta Hayatenosuke and Kagami Yaheiji leave their besieged castle on a secret mission into the enemy camp. Hayatenosuke has left behind his lover, Kano. In the camp, Hayatenosuke is wounded and cared for by…
Odd Obsession
Japanese Movie - 19597.3
A man who suspects his wife is having an affair with his daughter's fiance places the two in dangerous situations in order to satisfy his voyeuristic curiosity. (Source: Wikipedia)
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