Kaoru Yachigusa Movies

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sawada

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Cast: Keiko Takeshita

The story follows Mamoru Masaki, a resort developer, and Koai, a career woman at a rival company. The appearance of Masaki, who does not live in work...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saburo Tokito

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a...

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Cast: Masako Izumi

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kantarō Suga

Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, The Great...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

Haru is a rather cool fifth-grade elementary school student who shares the same tastes as her mother’s younger sister Yuko (Kaho) and can tell...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

1958 Japanese movie

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

A biographical drama depicting the life full of love and suffering of the writer and poet Kenji Miyazawa, who celebrated his 100th birthday in 1996.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Mikami

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kaoru Yachigusa

When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes on to rob banks to fund his dancer girlfriend's...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Yoshio Tsuchiya

A daughter from an island in the Seto Inland Sea takes a job as a nanny in Tokyo. She thrills the hearts of fishmongers and milkmen.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masako Izumi

High school student Ayumi is trained by his grandmother to act as a "tsunagu," an intermediary for people who want to reach the dead.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tori Matsuzaka

Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

The story of Takuro Yazawa, a day trader who claims he can earn hundreds of millions of yen in one day, and those around him as they attempt to cope...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make an equally strong impression on his reluctant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eita Nagayama

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes power and tyranny with his will and spirit.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Senjaku Nakamura

The movie revolves around Mitsuba, who studies traditional art of rakugo. Rakugo is a form of comical story telling, sometimes referred to as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taichi Kokubun

Shizuru Tamai lives in a small mountain town in rural Japan with her mother and grandmother. Her grandmother is partially unable to move, and...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Takako Tokiwa

Yamashita Takako works in the food section of a department store. She pays frequent visits to a reputable local Chinese restaurant about opening an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miki Nakatani

In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Masachika Ichimura

A radio DJ, Mai starts a new program called, "Love Letters from the Drawer" to assist people who need an extra push to send out their simple yet very...

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Cast: Takako Tokiwa

Army Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda (Nakamura Shido) has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the jungles of Lubang Island in the Philippines with his...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Shido Nakamura

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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Cast: Keiko Takeshita

UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Hiroshi Katsuno

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keanu Reeves

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shinji Yamada

Japanese-Italian adaptation of Puccini's opera.

Genre: Music

Cast: Kaoru Yachigusa

Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of...

Genre: War

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This film tells the story of Saizo’s...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A young Tokyo couple’s blissful newlywed life is turned upside down when an unexpected pregnancy arrives, sending them on a whirlwind quest for...

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Depicts the life of best-selling Japanese poet Toyo Shibata. Toyo Shibata first began writing poems at the age of 92 and published her first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaoru Yachigusa

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Two sisters, Kyoko and Hisako, run a restaurant in Kyoto. But an incident with the latter's fiancé puts their relationship, and the future of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shiho Fujimura

Period romantic drama.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Norihei Miki

Ryou is a girl isolated by everyone else in her class, she doesn't even have a cell phone because no one would call her anyway. One day, she suddenly...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Riko Narumi

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombings in 1945— followed by a spectacular...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Éric Chantelauze

A sequel to "The Pierrot Prays to the Moon", which won the "Gold Medal Prize" at the Chicago International Film Festival Television Awards. A...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tomoyo Harada

An elderly woman sets out to see in person a painting by a famous artist.She believes she was the inspiration for the painting.

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Cast: Kaoru Yachigusa

A rare grouping of the three Tamura brothers, Masakazu, Takahiro, and Ryu highlight this exciting tale of a series of attempts on the life of Shogun...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Hashizume

Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The Domain" Each a stand alone film in it's own,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with other members of her family in Osaka Castle, by a...

Genre: History

Cast: Machiko Kyō

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoshirô Otani

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Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a private detective to investigate.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinobu Otake

After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Keio universities play one final game...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nagashima

1953 Hiroshi Inagaki movie.

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Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A group of kids find interest in birdwatching.

Genre: Family

Cast: Kaoru Yachigusa

In this movie, Japan's top negotiator confronts a formidable foe threatening Tokyo's subways. As high-stakes tension brews, Mashita must outsmart an...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yusuke Santamaria

1958 Japanese movie

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Rie Miyazawa

This movie depicts poor yet kind and modest people, focusing on sibling love.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Yamaguchi

Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion of Manchuria. He is offered a position in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

An omnibus comedy set in a newly built housing complex, the film follows seven interconnected stories about the everyday vices simmering behind thin...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII

Toshiro, a naval reserve student, is a kamikaze pilot. Unsure of how long he will live, Toshiro had no intention of marrying. However, after...

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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Cast: Yōko Sugi

The story of the hardships facing women working as maids and waitresses at a resort hotel restaurant.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Miura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miki Mori

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Cast: Tomokazu Miura