Movies: Kō Nishimura

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her....

Based on the manga by Sadao Jouji which has been running in the magazine Shukan Gendai since 1969....

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes....

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the Japanese Navy attempted one of the most daring and unlikely evacuation...

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without res...

A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza....

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply....

One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With onl...

In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure years of tribulations until he can return....

Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World War II, where in the first two years of training, ordinary people were turned into inhuman killers. ...

Original work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which began airing on Asahi TV in the second half of the 1970s and gained popularity. Famous actor Tian Zhimao plays detective wise Kogoro. A magician who target...

Japanese drama....

In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld....

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie...

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After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home....

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform forced labor. Living conditions on the island are terrible and the men soon become rebellious. Based...

A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation....

Based off of the novel, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and the ballet, "The Nutcracker", Sanrio shows their take on the classic story in a stop-motion animated film....

1962 Japanese movie...