Hideyo Amamoto Movies

The story, set in the Heian era, depicts the conflict between Korean painter Yoshihide (Nakadai) and his Japanese patron, the cruel and egotistical...

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

The second film in Toho's series on the military history of the Showa era, Hiromichi Horikawa's war drama offers a look at the career of...

Three cute, sexy ninjas, around the age of 20, have been in training, building their powers for some vague future threat. Their destined mission...

Takeshi Hashimoto, on the brink of turning 30, struggles with insomnia. He finds himself repeatedly dreaming the same dream. Despite seeming to have...

Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who...

Thriller about a narcotics investigator uncovering a dope ring.

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange...

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

Ichikawa Shinichi, who actually participated as a scriptwriter in the tokusatsu series Ultra Seven, depicts behind-the-scenes stories from the...

1961 Japanese movie

A musical- style comedy movie set in Hakata.

An anthology of strange horror tales featuring yokai. It begins with astronauts finding a katana on the moon.

A man Tetsuo (Kosuke Toyohara) met at a racetrack offered him a job of 100,000 yen per diem, and although he was suspicious, he was urged by the...

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

A drama filled battle that goes beyond acting unfolds!

Rising from the lowliest of country samurai to the heights of power as Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is one of the pivotal figures of the Sengoku period.

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

The eleventh film in the comedy series starring Japan's leading comedy group, the Crazy Cats. Susumu Sakamori and his friends travel to Mexico to...