The Face of Another

The Face of Another 1966

7.80

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

1966

Lady Snowblood

Lady Snowblood 1973

7.50

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.

1973

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance 1974

6.40

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.

1974

Goyokin

Goyokin 1969

7.50

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

1969

None But the Brave

None But the Brave 1965

6.30

American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations. Told through the eyes of the American and Japanese unit commanders, who must deal with an atmosphere of growing distrust and tension between their men.

1965

Girls of the Night

Girls of the Night 1961

6.90

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently release from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life.

1961

The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest 1973

6.50

Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estranged relationship.

1973

Illusion of Blood

Illusion of Blood 1965

6.20

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

1965

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women 1956

6.70

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

1956

Red Target

Red Target 1972

6.00

A gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer discovers the set-up behind the killing - that a laboratory is being set up by a Nazi organization to capture and train talented youth and that the photographer was about to expose it.

1972

Bitterness of Youth

Bitterness of Youth 1974

6.30

A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.

1974

Sweet Sweat

Sweet Sweat 1964

1

This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to keep her family together. Her 17-year-old daughter Takeko becomes increasingly upset by her mother's constant drinking and yakuza boyfriend, and runs away from home. Kyo's performance was highly praised.

1964

The Twilight Story

The Twilight Story 1960

8.00

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.

1960

The Trail of Blood

The Trail of Blood 1972

6.20

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi pursues his father's craft. After three years, the gangs he embarrassed when he saved his wife find the family and leave Jokichi in grief, vowing revenge. To parry his terrible swift sword, rival gangs join forces, hiring a prostitute to pose as a woman needing help and breaking the code of honor to double cross the drifter. He finds unlikely allies: a thief who aids him for fun and a one-eyed swordsman who may be Jokichi's equal in skill and honor.

1972

Women in Prison

Women in Prison 1956

1.00

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had an affair. She loves the jailed criminals and almost sees them as family. One day at a workshop someone faints while working hard to make money because she has a poor boyfriend. Another inmate is knocked up Another is a mother and has her child with her.

1956

Room for Let

Room for Let 1959

6.00

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.

1959

Hairpin Circus

Hairpin Circus 1972

5.60

A retired racing champion, now a driving instructor, gets involved with the speed tribes after impulsively taking to the streets to relive his former glory.

1972

Happiness of Us Alone

Happiness of Us Alone 1961

9.00

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.

1961