
7
Alone Across the Pacific
IMDb: 7 1963 97 min
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his ...

6.5
Love New and Old
IMDb: 6.5 1961 81 min
A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

7.9
The Bad Sleep Well
IMDb: 7.9 1960 150 min
In this loose adaptation of “Hamlet,” illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and ...

8
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
IMDb: 8 1960 111 min
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she’s a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life’s vicious cycle: ...

7.4
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
IMDb: 7.4 1960 123 min
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former ...

7.4
Untamed Woman
IMDb: 7.4 1957 121 min
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 ...

7.1
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
IMDb: 7.1 1955 92 min
In 8th-century China, the Emperor grieves the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may ...

7.6
Floating Clouds
IMDb: 7.6 1955 123 min
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. ...

8.1
Ugetsu
IMDb: 8.1 1953 96 min
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 ...

7.3
Brother and Sister
IMDb: 7.3 1953 86 min
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal ...

7.1
The Idiot
IMDb: 7.1 1951 166 min
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the ...

8.1
Rashomon
IMDb: 8.1 1950 88 min
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife.

6
Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two
IMDb: 6 1945 83 min
A few years after his breakthrough, Sanshiro resumes his path to judo mastery—testing his discipline against an American prizefighter and later ...

6.7
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail
IMDb: 6.7 1952 59 min
A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a hostile checkpoint.

5.4
Battle Troop
IMDb: 5.4 1944 95 min
Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for ...