Hiroshi Akutagawa Movies

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

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...

Genre: War

Cast: Martin Balsam

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

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

Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Yukio Aoshima

This celebrated documentary, filmed in colour, depicts one of the most famous of all Japanese temples. Horyu-ji, in the small town of Ikaruga outside...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hiroshi Akutagawa

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Uninvited guests crash a former student radical's wedding and accuse him, his bride and other guests of ignoring their political commitments.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miyuki Kuwano

Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a geisha residence, the Katsura Imperial Villa, and the Gion...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hiroshi Akutagawa

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshitaka Zushi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinzō Shin

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

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

This is the sequel to Jose Torres (1959), the portrayal of Puerto Rican boxer Jose Torres, who won a silver medal in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. We...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hiroshi Akutagawa

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka