Search results for "Hisashi Igawa"
After the Rain

After the Rain

After the Rain
IMDb: 7.6
91

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the trapped travelers.

Genre: Drama
Foujita

Foujita

Foujita
IMDb: 6.1
126

A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese styles.

Genre: Drama, History
Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage

Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage

Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage
IMDb: 7.2
82

Zatoichi’s trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.

Genre: Drama
Bullet Ballet

Bullet Ballet

Bullet Ballet
IMDb: 6.9
87

After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Far Road

The Far Road

The Far Road
IMDb: 6.2
114

Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker in the…

Genre: Drama
47 Ronin

47 Ronin

47 Ronin
IMDb: 6.4
129

Kon Ichikawa’s retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai)…

Genre: Action, Drama
Basara: Princess Goh

Basara: Princess Goh

Basara: Princess Goh
IMDb: 6.8
142

Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of…

Genre: Drama, History
Tora-san’s Runaway

Tora-san’s Runaway

Tora-san’s Runaway
IMDb: 6.7
88

After an encounter with a dying yakuza’s son and at his sister Sakura’s urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.

Genre: Comedy
The Face of Another

The Face of Another

The Face of Another
IMDb: 7.9
124

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

Double Suicide of Sonezaki

Double Suicide of Sonezaki

Double Suicide of Sonezaki
IMDb: 6.7
112

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new…

Demon Pond

Demon Pond

Demon Pond
IMDb: 6.6
124

Outside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Their story is of revenge, tragedy, and the power of real love. A classical tale…

Genre: Fantasy, Romance
The Oil-Hell Murder

The Oil-Hell Murder

The Oil-Hell Murder
IMDb: 6.5
115

The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents.

Genre: Drama
Rhapsody in August

Rhapsody in August

Rhapsody in August
IMDb: 7.2
98

The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, who lost her husband in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Dreams

Dreams

Dreams
IMDb: 7.8
120

A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Villain

Villain

Villain
IMDb: 6.9
139

Shimizu Yuichi (Tsumabuki Satoshi) is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and going on random encounters…

Genre: Drama
Madadayo

Madadayo

Madadayo
IMDb: 7.3
134

This film tells the story of professor Uehida Hyakken-sama (1889-1971), in Gotemba, around the forties. He was a university professor until an air raid, when he left to become a…

Genre: Drama
Boiling Point

Boiling Point

Boiling Point
IMDb: 6.8
96

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Harakiri

Harakiri

Harakiri
IMDb: 8.6
135

An unusual request for ritual suicide on a feudal lord’s property leads to the unwinding of a greater mystery that challenges the clan’s integrity.

Genre: Action, Drama, History
Ran

Ran

Ran
IMDb: 8.2
160

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life masterpiece, a profound…

Genre: Action, Drama, History
House on Fire

House on Fire

House on Fire
IMDb: 7
133

In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work

Genre: Drama
War and Youth

War and Youth

War and Youth
IMDb: 6.2
112

An auto repairman’s daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up, and the girl is able…

Genre: Drama
Letter from the Mountain

Letter from the Mountain

Letter from the Mountain
IMDb: 7.2
128

As the film begins, Takao (Akira Terao) and Michiko (Kanako Higuchi) have already pulled up their Tokyo roots and moved to a village that is Takao’s ancestral home. They visit…

Genre: Drama
The Village

The Village

The Village
IMDb: 7.1
127

This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and,…

Genre: Drama