Daiei Film Popular Movie

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Yakusho

The continuing adventures of Matsuzaki, a racing tipster for a sports paper. Matsuzaki befriends a mysterious old track bettor named Tokudaiji. The...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eiji Okuda

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Haruhiko Kato

A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Yuriy Solomin

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Machiko Kyō

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emmanuelle Riva

A strange meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect-like "Legion" creatures bent on colonizing the Earth. When the military fails to...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nagashima

Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Matsumura

Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Keizō Kawasaki

A ship runs aground on a mysterious atoll leading to an investigation by insurance representative Kusanagi, who discovers an ancient bead that he...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tsuyoshi Ihara

The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a memorial ceremony for the late Chigusa lord,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur pits. A...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Hideki Ninomiya

The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as an aggressive warrior, the battles he won until...

Genre: History

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka