Diary of a Mad Old Man (1962)
A wealthy old man, Utsugi has recently suffered a stroke which has paralyzed his right hand and significantly reduced his quality of life He currently operates a large household with a number of live in staff, including a round the
Swastika (1964)
A childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model
Princess from the Moon (1987)
Based on a centuries old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter Not the same as the original tale, though, in which the girl was a fairy from the mo
The Red Angel (1966)
During the Sino Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor whos addicted to morphine
Irezumi (1966)
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
The Blue Sky Maiden (1957)
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is actually the love child of her wealthy businessman father and his ex secretary
A Wife Confesses (1961)
Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain Ayako was having an affair, apparently with her husbands approval, and this complicates the trial
Shinobi No Mono 3: Resurrection (1963)
When we last saw the intrepid ninja Ishikawa Goemon Raizo Ichikawa, he was about to be boiled alive But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even harder to kill With the help of the enigmatic Hattori Hanzo, Goemon lives to skul
Bamboo Doll of Echizen (1963)
Haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his fathers prostitute as his wife
Bridge of Japan (1956)
For his 1st color film, Ichikawa did an Edo era story of two geishas scheming against each other for control of the Nihonbashi bridge area, and vying for the affections of a young doctor
A Geisha (1953)
A seasoned geisha and her apprentice maiko are forced to give in to their clients sexual advances to survive
Street of Shame (1956)
The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leaders bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same
Afraid to Die (1960)
Takeo is a young yakuza who renounces his former criminal activities after being released from prison But sometimes escaping the past is not so easy
Saiko shukun fujin (1959)
In the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to break all ties with their previous lives and form the Japanese spy service
The Graceful Brute (1962)
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