6.8
Taboo
IMDb: 6.8 1999 100 min 3 views
Set during Japan’s Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of ...
6.5
Sing a Song of Sex
IMDb: 6.5 1967 103 min 2 views
Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking ...
6.2
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
IMDb: 6.2 1969 96 min 20 views
In Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.
6
Max My Love
IMDb: 6 1986 97 min 45 views
The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.
7.2
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
IMDb: 7.2 1983 124 min 51 views
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. ...
7
Empire of Passion
IMDb: 7 1978 105 min 43 views
In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver’s wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to ...
6.6
In the Realm of the Senses
IMDb: 6.6 1976 105 min 56 views
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
7.5
Boy
IMDb: 7.5 1969 98 min 50 views
A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the war, the father ...
7.5
Death by Hanging
IMDb: 7.5 1968 118 min 47 views
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
6.4
Three Resurrected Drunkards
IMDb: 6.4 1968 80 min 50 views
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action ...
6.7
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
IMDb: 6.7 1967 99 min 44 views
A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, ...
6.9
Pleasures of the Flesh
IMDb: 6.9 1965 104 min 44 views
A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail ...
6.8
The Catch
IMDb: 6.8 1961 105 min 38 views
Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official ...
6.9
The Sun’s Burial
IMDb: 6.9 1960 87 min 42 views
In Osaka’s slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity ...
7
Cruel Story of Youth
IMDb: 7 1960 96 min 45 views
A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.
6.8
Night and Fog in Japan
IMDb: 6.8 1960 107 min 42 views
Uninvited guests crash a former student radical’s wedding and accuse him, his bride and other guests of ignoring their political commitments.
