Eisei Gekijo Popular Movie

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bae Doona

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yukie Nakama

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenji Sawada

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Raised by assassins, Yuki is the last of the Takemikazuchi royal bloodline. A deadly weapon in her own right, she learns the gruesome truth about the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yumiko Shaku

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist....

Genre: Family

Cast: Mirai Shida

Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Aso

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small seaside town in Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mikako Ichikawa

Amechiyo (the banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised as human). This is an operetta which includes...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Zhang Ziyi

Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko keeps everyone at arm's length, whether it's her father and stepmother or...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yo Hitoto

A 30-something Gundam fan and engineer is forced to live with his recluse brother Maury and younger sister Lisa to take care of their Japanese...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masako Motai

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Odagiri

A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Odagiri