Movies

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

This time around, Sashichi is investigating a case of serial murders believed to be perpetrated by a giant bear.

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short,...

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much...

Comedy-horror film by Masaki Môri.

On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped...

The year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The rotted corpse of a young woman is found at the bottom...

Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of...

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.

The fifth volume of the Ningyo Sana Torimonocho series. Based on the original work by Seishi Yokomizo, the film was adapted by Mitsuo Kaneda (The...

A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei with Hideko Takamine portraying...

The All Girl's Rugby Team try to keep their private college from falling into the hands of Yakuza and unscrupulous businessmen.

Young men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Army and Navy. By the time of the filming, the...

Japanese comedy film.

Sashichi investigates the mysterious murders of four beauties, all of whom were stabbed in the chest.

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi