Movies

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover...

The first of four "Comic Storyteller' features.

The second "Comic Storyteller" feature.

Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.

Masao Shinoda, an office worker at Tozai Trading, is feeling down because his colleague Hiraoka was promoted ahead of him, and when he gets home, his...

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Seven Samurai" (1954).

The third "Comic Storyteller" feature. A comedy set in historic Edo.

Part one of The Masterless 47.

1957 Japanese movie.

In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student medical school newsletter and attempts to find a...

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His biggest scheme involves winning the business of a...