Release Date: 1954-03-31

Overview: In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.

Rating: 8.095 (394 votes)

Release Date: 1939-10-13

Overview: In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.

Rating: 7.845 (116 votes)

Release Date: 1952-04-17

Overview: In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Rating: 7.749 (177 votes)

Release Date: 1940-10-25

Overview: An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.

Rating: 6.9 (81 votes)

Release Date: 1953-08-12

Overview: Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve their professional integrity, must face the selfishness and ambition of several petty people.

Rating: 7.519 (53 votes)

Release Date: 1947-08-05

Overview: Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.

Rating: 6.952 (21 votes)

Release Date: 1974-03-09

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

Rating: 7.1 (25 votes)

Release Date: 2016-07-07

Overview: Nob leads a happy life in a small town with his wife and young son. But when his son dies and his wife leaves him, he is unable to cope.

Rating: 5.8 (5 votes)

Release Date: 1967-08-03

Overview: Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.

Rating: 7.1 (28 votes)

Release Date: 1959-04-12

Overview: On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.

Rating: 10 (1 votes)

Release Date: 1953-10-30

Overview: Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but becomes distraught when he finds out that she is married.

Rating: 7.111 (90 votes)

Release Date: 1965-11-12

Overview: Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and leaves town assuming he'll never see Andula again. But when Andula doesn't hear from him, she packs up and heads to Prague, to the surprise of Milda and his parents.

Rating: 7.012 (173 votes)

Release Date: 1944-04-08

Overview: Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.

Rating: 7.529 (257 votes)

Release Date: 1950-01-13

Overview: The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.

Rating: 6.488 (85 votes)

Release Date: 1951-09-10

Overview: Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its people, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.

Rating: 7.2 (114 votes)

Release Date: 1953-01-30

Overview: A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

Rating: 6.91 (217 votes)

Release Date: 1964-02-27

Overview: When a cynical journalist accepts a wager that he won't survive the night in a haunted castle, it unlocks an odyssey of sexual torment, undead vengeance, and a dark seductress who surrenders the gravest of pleasures.

Rating: 7.132 (106 votes)

Release Date: 2001-01-25

Overview: When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real.

Rating: 7 (144 votes)