Search results for "Kamatari Fujiwara"
The Funeral

The Funeral

The Funeral
IMDb: 7.2
124

When Wabisuke’s father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
IMDb: 6.6
94

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. His first adventure sees him investigating his superior officer’s…

Genre: Action, Drama
Double Suicide

Double Suicide

Double Suicide
IMDb: 7.6
105

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu,…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Mickey One

Mickey One

Mickey One
IMDb: 6.3
93

A former comic is on the run from the mob.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Three Outlaw Samurai

Three Outlaw Samurai

Three Outlaw Samurai
IMDb: 7.6
93

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes…

Genre: Action, Drama
Sanjuro

Sanjuro

Sanjuro
IMDb: 8
96

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In this companion piece and sequel to “Yojimbo,” jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic…

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
The Bad Sleep Well

The Bad Sleep Well

The Bad Sleep Well
IMDb: 8
150

In this loose adaptation of “Hamlet,” illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Sun’s Burial

The Sun’s Burial

The Sun’s Burial
IMDb: 6.9
87

In Osaka’s slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi,…

Genre: Drama
Samurai Saga

Samurai Saga

Samurai Saga
IMDb: 6.9
111

Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as…

Genre: Action, Drama
The Hidden Fortress

The Hidden Fortress

The Hidden Fortress
IMDb: 8.1
139

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress…

Tokyo Twilight

Tokyo Twilight

Tokyo Twilight
IMDb: 8.1
141

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
Mr. Pu

Mr. Pu

Mr. Pu
IMDb: 6.4
98

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Genre: Comedy
Ikiru

Ikiru

Ikiru
IMDb: 8.3
143

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 look for the meaning of his…

Genre: Drama
The Munekata Sisters

The Munekata Sisters

The Munekata Sisters
IMDb: 7.3
112

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to…

Genre: Drama
Wife! Be Like a Rose!

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

Wife! Be Like a Rose!
IMDb: 7.5
74

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and…

Genre: Drama