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Sansho the Bailiff
(山椒大夫)
A family is tragically separated after the patriarch is sent into exile.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1954
- Director Kenji Mizoguchi
- Cast Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyōko Kagawa, Eitarō Shindō, Akitake Kôno, Masao Shimizu
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
After Life
(ワンダフルライフ)
What is the one memory you would take with you?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1998
- Director Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Cast Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitō, Kei Tani, Kyōko Kagawa
- Genre Fantasy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
High and Low
(天国と地獄)
A wealthy executive becomes the victim of an extortion plot after his chauffeur’s son is kidnapped.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1963
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Isao Kimura, Kenjirō Ishiyama
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Red Beard
(赤ひげ)
A look into the tumultuous relationship between an arrogant young doctor and a compassionate clinic director.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1965
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan, Miyuki Kuwano, Kyōko Kagawa
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel
Tokyo Sonata
(トウキョウソナタ)
When Megumi accidentally finds out Ryûhei's secret and doesn't tell him, her trust in him, and their marriage, suffers.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, Netherlands, Hong Kong • 2008
- Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Cast Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi, Kai Inowaki, Yū Koyanagi, Koji Yakusho, Haruka Igawa
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, Tubi TV
The Wolves
(出所祝い)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1971
- Director Hideo Gosha
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Noboru Andô, Komaki Kurihara, Kyōko Enami, Toshio Kurosawa, Isao Natsuyagi
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Madadayo
(まあだだよ)
The tale of a German professor’s life after he resigns prior to WWII to pursue a career as a writer.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1993
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Tatsuo Matsumura, Kyōko Kagawa, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro, Masayuki Yui, Akira Terao
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Adventures of Milo and Otis
(子猫物語)
Milo is one lucky cat. He's got nine lives and a best friend.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1986
- Director Masanori Hata
- Cast Dudley Moore, Kyoko Koizumi, Milo, Otis, Shigeru Tsuyuki
- Genre Adventure, Drama, Family
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Dolls
(ドールズ)
Love is eternal—for better or for worse.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2002
- Director Takeshi Kitano
- Cast Miho Kanno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tatsuya Mihashi, Chieko Matsubara, Kyoko Fukada, Tsutomu Takeshige
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Beautiful Boxer
A man who wishes to have a sex change operation enters the brutal world of Thai boxing to pay for it.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Thailand • 2004
- Director Ekachai Uekrongtham
- Cast Asanee Suwan, Sorapong Chatree, Ornanong Panyawong, Nukkid Boonthong, Sitiporn Niyom, Kyôko Inoue
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Three… Extremes
(쓰리, 몬스터)
An anthology of nightmare films from three different East Asian horror masters.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hong Kong, Japan, Korea • 2004
- Director Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike, Fruit Chan
- Cast Kyoko Hasegawa, Atsuro Watabe, Mai Suzuki, Yuu Suzuki, Mitsuru Akaboshi, Bai Ling
- Genre Horror
- Available on Peacock, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Freevee, Plex
Friends
(フレンズ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, Korea • 2002
- Creator Yoshikazu Okada, Hwang Sun-young
- Cast Won Bin, Han Hye-jin, Lee Dong-gun, Kyoko Fukada, Lee Ho-jae
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Mifune: The Last Samurai
Nearly 20 years after his death, Toshiro Mifune remains a true giant of Japanese cinema.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2016
- Director Steven Okazaki
- Cast Keanu Reeves, Kyōko Kagawa, Yōko Tsukasa, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Takeshi Katō, Kaoru Yachigusa
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Penance
(贖罪)
God may forgive you, but she never will.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2012
- Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Cast Kyoko Koizumi, Yu Aoi, Eiko Koike, Sakura Ando, Chizuru Ikewaki, Hazuki Kimura
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Kamikaze Girls
(下妻物語)
The extraordinary adventures of a Lolita-look aficionado and a tough biker gang chick.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2004
- Director Tetsuya Nakashima
- Cast Kyoko Fukada, Anna Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Ryoko Shinohara, Sadawo Abe, Yoshinori Okada
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai
(発情家庭教師 先生の愛汁)
- ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2003
- Director Mitsuru Meike
- Cast Emi Kuroda, Yukijiro Hotaru, Kikujirō Honda, Takeshi Itō, Tetsuaki Matsue, Kyôko Hayami
- Genre Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations
(葵 徳川三代)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2000
- Creator
- Cast Kyoko Mitsubayashi, Masahiko Tsugawa, Yoshiko Tokoshima, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Toshiyuki Nishida, Shima Iwashita
- Genre Drama, War & Politics
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Woman in the Dunes
(砂の女)
An entomologist suffers extreme psychological and sexual torture after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1964
- Director Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Cast Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Ginzô Sekiguchi, Kôji Mitsui, Sen Yano
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Fujiko
(フジコ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2015
- Creator
- Cast Machiko Ono, Mitsuki Tanimura, Tomomi Maruyama, Lily Franky, Miyoko Asada, Kyôko Maya
- Genre Mystery
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Lone Wolf and Cub
(子連れ狼)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2002
- Creator
- Cast Kinya Kitaoji, Tsubasa Kobayashi, Keiko Tokoshima, Isao Natsuyagi, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Kyōko Kishida
- Genre
- Available on Tubi TV, The Roku Channel
Suika
(すいか)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2003
- Creator
- Cast Satomi Kobayashi, Rie Tomosaka, Ruriko Asaoka, Mikako Ichikawa, Kyoko Koizumi, Katsumi Takahashi
- Genre Family, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Bad Sleep Well
(悪い奴ほどよく眠る)
A young executive hunts down his father's killer in this chilling corporate take on "Hamlet."
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1960
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kamatari Fujiwara, Takeshi Katō, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
- Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Crucified Lovers
(近松物語)
The tortured heart behind the cultivated image.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1954
- Director Kenji Mizoguchi
- Cast Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyōko Kagawa, Eitarō Shindō, Eitarō Ozawa, Yôko Minamida, Haruo Tanaka
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Vudu
SCANDAL
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2008
- Creator
- Cast Kyoka Suzuki, Kyoko Hasegawa, Kazue Fukiishi, Kaori Momoi, Ikki Sawamura, Fumiyo Kohinata
- Genre Family, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Face of Another
(他人の顔)
A man with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1966
- Director Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Machiko Kyō, Mikijiro Hira, Kyōko Kishida, Eiji Okada, Miki Irie
- Genre Drama, Science Fiction
- Available on Criterion Channel
Women in Prison
(女囚と共に)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1956
- Director Seiji Hisamatsu
- Cast Setsuko Hara, Michiyo Kogure, Kyōko Kagawa, Yoshiko Kuga, Kyôko Anzai, Yôko Sugi
- Genre Drama, Crime
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Life's Punchline
(コントが始まる)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2021
- Creator
- Cast Masaki Suda, Kasumi Arimura, Taiga Nakano, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Kotone Furukawa, Kyoko Yoshine
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Space Sheriff Shaider
(宇宙刑事シャイダー)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1984
- Creator Saburô Hatte
- Cast Hiroshi Tsuburaya, Wakiko Kano, Kyoko Nashiro, Naomi Morinaga, Tōru Ōhira, Masayuki Suzuki
- Genre Action & Adventure
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Rainy Night Duel
(Kuro-obi sangokushi)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1956
- Director Senkichi Taniguchi
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Shin Saburi, Akio Kobori, Kyōko Kagawa, Mariko Okada, Asami Kuji
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
An Inn at Osaka
(大阪の宿)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1954
- Director Heinosuke Gosho
- Cast Shūji Sano, Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Mito, Hiroko Kawasaki, Sachiko Hidari, Kyōko Anzai
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Trapp Family Story
(トラップ一家物語)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1991
- Creator
- Cast Masako Katsuki, Hiromi Ishikawa, Junko Hagimori, Kyoko Irokawa, Maria Kawamura, Masato Hirano
- Genre Animation, Family, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Mountain Woman, Wall Woman
(山おんな壁おんな)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2007
- Creator
- Cast Kyoko Fukada, Misaki Ito, Eiko Koike, Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Shosuke Tanihara, Hidetoshi Nishijima
- Genre Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Mother
(おかあさん)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1952
- Director Mikio Naruse
- Cast Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyōko Kagawa, Eiji Okada, Akihiko Katayama, Daisuke Katō, Yônosuke Toba
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Three Outlaw Samurai
(三匹の侍)
One...two...three Samurai filling the giant screen with flashing swordplay
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1964
- Director Hideo Gosha
- Cast Tetsurō Tamba, Isamu Nagato, Mikijirō Hira, Miyuki Kuwano, Yoshiko Kayama, Kyoko Aoi
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Uncut Story of Mewtwo's Origin
(ミュウツーの誕生)
The Uncut Story of Mewtwo's Origin
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1999
- Director Kunihiko Yuyama
- Cast Yousuke Akimoto, Showtaro Morikubo, Kyoko Hikami, Etsuko Kozakura, Yuji Ueda, Satomi Korogi
- Genre Animation
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Space Sheriff Gavan
(宇宙刑事ギャバン)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1982
- Creator Saburo Yatsude
- Cast Kenji Ohba, Wakiko Kano, Kyoko Nashiro, Shin'ichi Chiba, Tamie Kubota, Masayuki Suzuki
- Genre Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
- Available on No streaming locations found.
God, Please Give Me More Time
(神様、もう少しだけ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1998
- Creator
- Cast Takeshi Kaneshiro, Kyoko Fukada, Yukie Nakama, Yoshiko Tanaka, Rie Miyazawa, Shin Yazawa
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Little Women II: Jo's Boys
(若草物語ナンとジョー先生)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1993
- Creator Kōzō Kusuba
- Cast Hazuru Matsukura, Eiko Yamada, Yousuke Akimoto, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Kyōko Minaimi
- Genre Drama, Animation, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Ping Pong Club
(行け!稲中卓球部)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1995
- Creator
- Cast Mahito Tsujimura, Asako Dodo, Yukiko Iwai, Kyoko Hikami, Yukana, Yuko Nagashima
- Genre Animation, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Survive Style 5+
What is your function in life?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2004
- Director Gen Sekiguchi
- Cast Tadanobu Asano, Reika Hashimoto, Kyoko Koizumi, Hiroshi Abe, Ittoku Kishibe, Yumi Asou
- Genre Mystery, Comedy, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Sea and Poison
(海と毒薬)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1986
- Director Kei Kumai
- Cast Eiji Okuda, Ken Watanabe, Takahiro Tamura, Kyōko Kishida, Mikio Narita, Shigeru Kôyama
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Lightning
(稲妻)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1952
- Director Mikio Naruse
- Cast Hideko Takamine, Mitsuko Miura, Kyōko Kagawa, Chieko Murata, Jun Negami, Eitarō Ozawa
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Family
(華麗なる一族)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2007
- Creator Toyoko Yamasaki
- Cast Takuya Kimura, Saki Aibu, Kazue Fukiishi, Kyoka Suzuki, Kyoko Hasegawa
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Postman Blues
(ポストマン・ブルース)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1997
- Director SABU
- Cast Shinichi Tsutsumi, Kyôko Tôyama, Ren Osugi, Keisuke Horibe, Hiroshi Shimizu, Ryoko Takizawa
- Genre Crime, Drama, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Bushido, Samurai Saga
(武士道残酷物語)
A man recounts his gruesome family history after his fiancée attempts suicide.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1963
- Director Tadashi Imai
- Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura, Ineko Arima, Satomi Oka, Kyôko Kishida, Misako Watanabe, Yoshiko Mita
- Genre History, Action, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Aura Battle Dunbine: The Tale of Neo Byston Well
(聖戦士ダンバイン)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1988
- Director Toshifumi Takizawa
- Cast Makoto Ataka, Mika Doi, Kyôko Irokawa, Maria Kawamura, Hidemi Osaka, Yumi Takada
- Genre Science Fiction, Adventure, Animation
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Residential Complex
(隣の家族は青く見える)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2018
- Creator
- Cast Kyoko Fukada, Kenichi Matsuyama, Hiroyuki Hirayama, Maryjun Takahashi, Hidekazu Mashima, Takumi Kitamura
- Genre Family, Drama, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Will You Marry Me…Again?
(もう一度君に、プロポーズ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2012
- Creator
- Cast Emi Wakui, Yutaka Takenouchi, Kouhei Matsushita, Akira Onodera, Kyôko Maya
- Genre Family, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Stay Tuned!
(チャンネルはそのまま!)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2019
- Creator
- Cast Kyoko Yoshine, Hiroki Iijima, Kanako Miyashita, Takuro Osada, Taisei Shima, Hikaru Takihara
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
5-Meter Radius
(半径5メートル)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2021
- Creator
- Cast Kyoko Yoshine, Hiromi Nagasaku, Katsuya Maiguma, Sei Matobu, Maho Yamada, Yukiya Kitamura
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Petero no Soretsu
(ペテロの葬列)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2014
- Creator Miyuki Miyabe
- Cast Kotaro Koizumi, Kyoko Hasegawa, Ryoko Kuninaka, Tsuyoshi Muro, Shigeru Muroi
- Genre Mystery, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
I Live in Fear
(生きものの記録)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1955
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Masao Shimizu, Eiko Miyoshi, Kyoko Aoyama
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
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