Search results for "Jun Hamamura"
The Demon

The Demon

The Demon
IMDb: 7.4
110

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi – and his very…

Genre: Drama
Koto: The Ancient City

Koto: The Ancient City

Koto: The Ancient City
IMDb: 6.6
125

Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she learned that her parents are…

Genre: Drama
Case of the Disjointed Murder

Case of the Disjointed Murder

Case of the Disjointed Murder
IMDb: 5.9
140

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses,…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip

Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip

Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip
IMDb: 3.5
76

Akira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who work at a pachinko parlour. Hiroshi is a ladies’ man but always loses at pachinko. Akira is a virgin at 25 but always…

Genre: Comedy
Bamboo Doll of Echizen

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

Bamboo Doll of Echizen
IMDb: 7.3
103

Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father’s prostitute as his wife.

Genre: Drama
Zatoichi’s Vengeance

Zatoichi’s Vengeance

Zatoichi’s Vengeance
IMDb: 7.3
83

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to “Taichi”. Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a…

Genre: Action, Drama
For Kayako

For Kayako

For Kayako
IMDb: 7
117

A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Ballad of Orin

Ballad of Orin

Ballad of Orin
IMDb: 7.4
118

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.

Genre: Drama
Himiko

Himiko

Himiko
IMDb: 7
100

The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.

Genre: Drama, History
The Catch

The Catch

The Catch
IMDb: 6.8
105

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with…

Genre: Drama, War
Fighting Elegy

Fighting Elegy

Fighting Elegy
IMDb: 6.9
86

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical…

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Lost Love

Lost Love

Lost Love
IMDb: 6.8
106

At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local nuclear power-plant, are…

Genre: Drama
The Broken Commandment

The Broken Commandment

The Broken Commandment
IMDb: 6.8
119

Ushimatsu’s father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination.

Genre: Drama
Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
IMDb: 6.5
80

A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in back. But he makes the…

Genre: Horror
Bitter End of a Sweet Night

Bitter End of a Sweet Night

Bitter End of a Sweet Night
IMDb: 7
85

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

Genre: Drama
The Vampire Doll

The Vampire Doll

The Vampire Doll
IMDb: 6.5
71

A young man travels out into the countryside to meet his fiance, Yuko. When he arrives at the secluded house he is told by her mother that she has died…

Genre: Horror
An Actor’s Revenge

An Actor’s Revenge

An Actor’s Revenge
IMDb: 7.4
113

While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier, and plans his revenge, firstly…

Genre: Drama
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
IMDb: 7.6
89

In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to…

Genre: Action, Drama
Cruel Story of Youth

Cruel Story of Youth

Cruel Story of Youth
IMDb: 6.9
96

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
The Burmese Harp

The Burmese Harp

The Burmese Harp
IMDb: 8.1
116

In the War’s closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.

Genre: Drama, Music, War
The Man with a Shotgun

The Man with a Shotgun

The Man with a Shotgun
IMDb: 6.5
84

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town’s…

Genre: Action, Crime
Play it, Boogie-Woogie

Play it, Boogie-Woogie

Play it, Boogie-Woogie
IMDb: 6.2
130

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships.

Genre: Drama
Watch Out, Crimson Bat!

Watch Out, Crimson Bat!

Watch Out, Crimson Bat!
IMDb: 6.4
87

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a…

Our Marriage

Our Marriage

Our Marriage
IMDb: 7.1
66

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

Genre: Drama
Samurai from Nowhere

Samurai from Nowhere

Samurai from Nowhere
IMDb: 7.1
93

Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan’s chief counselor…

Genre: Action, Adventure
Gamera, the Giant Monster

Gamera, the Giant Monster

Gamera, the Giant Monster
IMDb: 5.1
79

A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire…

Intimidation

Intimidation

Intimidation
IMDb: 7.2
65

Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The…

Genre: Crime
The Inferno

The Inferno

The Inferno
IMDb: 6.2
131

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother’s grief from beyond the grave.

Genre: Horror
The Makioka Sisters

The Makioka Sisters

The Makioka Sisters
IMDb: 7.2
140

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle…

Genre: Drama, Romance