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- An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in the complex political games in feudal Japan.
- After a dinosaur-like beast - awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing - ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it.
- An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.
- In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
- An English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan.
- An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.
- Disillusioned with the world she knows, a woman searches for meaning and affirmations of life with a dashing Yakuza gangster in Tokyo.
- A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
- An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
- A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
- Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.
- A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.
- A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
- Three interwoven stories about a terrible curse. A young woman encounters a malevolent supernatural force while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo; a mean high school prank goes horribly wrong; a woman with a deadly secret moves into a Chicago apartment building.
- A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.
- A reporter, notorious for working on pseudo-documentaries, must uncover the legend of the three guardian monsters who must rise to defend Japan from the vengeful spirits within Godzilla.
- A new Godzilla causes the JSDF to construct a cyborg countermeasure from the original monster's remains. The beast's restless soul is discovered to inhabit the machine as the pilot must learn to find value in her own life.
- A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.
- The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
- In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.
- During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.
- Three generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
- A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
- A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.
- Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.
- Following World War II, a retired professor approaching his autumn years finds his quality of life drastically reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with his adoring students.
- The daughter of a politically disgraced university professor struggles to find a place for herself in love and life, in the uncertain world of Japan leading into WWII.
- Sugata, a young man, struggles to learn the nuance and meaning of judo, and in doing so comes to learn something of the meaning of life.
- In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
- A Japanese general and his men disguise themselves as monks in order to pass an enemy border patrol.
- An aging Japanese industrialist becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family.
- Musashi Miyamoto returns to Kyoto after years of absence. After a series of fights against the Yoshioka School, he challenges its master to a duel.
- World War II film about female volunteer workers at an optics plant who do their best to meet production targets.
- During a Sunday trip into war-ravaged Tokyo, despairing Yuzo and optimistic Masako look for work and lodging, as well as affordable entertainments to pass the time.
- Sugata returns to prove his judo mastery in a match against Western opponents.
- Original Japanese version. Research in the Tohoku region comes across a monster known to the locals as the mountain god Baradagi.
- Ten Americans, many of whom have never traveled beyond the borders of the United States, head to Japan to compete in the ultimate Japanese game show. Hilarity presumably ensues. The final winner will take home $250,000.
- Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking railroad workers, one of whom boards with the sisters and their parents. The girls' father argues with them about their strike, but finds his views changing when he himself loses his job.
- Set in a fictional Japanese city in 1949, a master criminal hones in on his latest victim.
- A biography of one of the only beloved postwar figures of Japan's disastrous Pacific War. A common-sense soldier knows the war is doomed, but gamely goes ahead and does the best with what he's given.
- Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese merchant marine officer. Part spy thriller and part Shanghai travelogue, it was part of a popular series known as "Chinese Continental Friendship" made by the occupying Japanese in China.
- A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.
- Biopic of Australian 3 Time Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer Dawn Fraser.
- Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the army. Ine struggles to prevent the sale.
- Four ex-samurai are hired to find and kill ninja infiltrators who are intent on destroying the Matsuyama clan.
- Hsin Lin, the only daughter of a Hong Kong physician, meets and falls for Toru, a student at her college in Japan. But due to their busy scheduals, neither is willing to make a move on the other and they both fabricate stories about themselves so that they will not get engaged.
- The film gives us a behind-the-scenes glimpse of making the original Gojira, and tells the story of Haruo Nakajima "The Faceless Star" who suffered incredible hardships to play Godzilla -- and yet remained almost completely anonymous.