Seiji Miyaguchi Movies

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Minoru Ōki

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

A Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and cultural boundaries.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Takahashi

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fumio Watanabe

Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isamu Nagato

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

After a woman is framed for the murder of her fisherman husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge on the corrupt businessmen responsible.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Mari Shirato

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the...

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Cast: Mayumi Ogawa

Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between...

Genre: Action

Cast: Scott Glenn

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

Uta married a priest who saved her when she tried to commit suicide at a waterfall. The love triangle between a lustful priest, his second wife and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rumiko Koyanagi

A Japanese girl and a French boy make strides in overcoming the cultural barriers that prevent them from fully expressing the love they have for one...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renaud Verley

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masayuki Mori

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hibari Misora

In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emiko Takahashi

Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of exposing their affair.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yōko Katsuragi

After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

A story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toyozō Yamamoto

A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find...

Genre: History

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder...

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Cast: Homare Suguro

In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly...

Genre: History

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926) designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Isidro Puig Boada

While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Masayuki Yui

Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Negami

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.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroshi Mizuhara

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

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Cast: Chishū Ryū

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Susumu Fujita

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

A modern love story involving different affairs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misa Uehara

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masumi Harukawa

lchiro, the president of Mihara & Co., is henpecked by his wife Momoko, a clever and beautiful woman, but prattling and intrusive. She makes her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Utsui

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A woman works as a prostitute and attendant to make a living at a bathhouse. She is athletic and is an avid runner. She has met and adopted a white...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reiko Nanjo

The story concerns a homeless boy named Ted. After seeing a movie about Gulliver he meets Professor Gulliver himself in a forest. Gulliver is now an...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Kyū Sakamoto

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese...

Genre: War

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Hidaka

A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

Genre: History

Cast: Yatsuko Tan'ami

Inochi uruwashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess of the bar calls him "the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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Cast: Mayumi Ogawa

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Comedy-drama about university tennis players.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yuriko Hoshi

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Cast: Takahiro Tamura

Remake of 1949 film

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomokazu Miura

"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter's marriage. The play was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chitose Kobayashi

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

A greedy Japanese barmaid serves her aged escort too many noodles.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Mie Hama

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

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Cast: Chōei Takahashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Ishihara

Pure love story

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Akira Takarada

A film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River".

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Mie Hama