Movies: Kindai Eiga Kyokai

  • 1973
    Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby

    Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby (1973)

    Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby

    5.51973HD

    Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from corrupt reform schools? Rica could be considered a bit of an expert on reform schools, having spent most ...

    Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
  • 1964
    Onibaba

    Onibaba (1964)

    Onibaba

    7.71964HD

    While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins ...

    Onibaba
  • 1960
    The Naked Island

    The Naked Island (1960)

    The Naked Island

    81960HD

    A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops....

    The Naked Island
  • 1952
    Children of Hiroshima

    Children of Hiroshima (1952)

    Children of Hiroshima

    7.21952HD

    Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath....

    Children of Hiroshima
  • 1968
    Kuroneko

    Kuroneko (1968)

    Kuroneko

    7.31968HD

    In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The gover...

    Kuroneko
  • 2000
    By Player

    By Player (2000)

    By Player

    82000HD

    The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on ...

    By Player
  • 1997
    Tokyo Lullaby

    Tokyo Lullaby (1997)

    Tokyo Lullaby

    6.21997HD

    Hamanaka Koichi returns to his wife Hisako and family in a sadder, run-down section of eastern Tokyo after having run away from home years before. He gives no explanation of his absence and his family asks no questions. It is only through the questio...

    Tokyo Lullaby
  • 1999
    Adrenaline Drive

    Adrenaline Drive (1999)

    Adrenaline Drive

    7.01999HD

    A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A cross-country chase ensues....

    Adrenaline Drive
  • 1992
    The Strange Tale of Oyuki

    The Strange Tale of Oyuki (1992)

    The Strange Tale of Oyuki

    81992HD

    A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha named Oyuki. Meticulous and smartly dressed, Nagai patiently wrote in his diary his thoughts during many...

    The Strange Tale of Oyuki
  • 1956
    Actress

    Actress (1956)

    Actress

    01956HD

    Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness....

    Actress
  • 1953
    Miniature

    Miniature (1953)

    Miniature

    81953HD

    Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate....

    Miniature
  • 1972
    Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl

    Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl (1972)

    Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl

    4.81972HD

    First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang....

    Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl
  • 1974
    My Way

    My Way (1974)

    My Way

    5.71974HD

    Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way....

    My Way
  • 1972
    A Chorus of One Million People

    A Chorus of One Million People (1972)

    A Chorus of One Million People

    01972HD

    A civic music group, created by Tsukasa Nitta, a high school teacher in Koriyama City, and Akiko Watanabe, the daughter of a record shop and teacher of a music class, invites Takuro Yoshida to Koriyama City to hold a concert. He then starts being har...

    A Chorus of One Million People
  • 2004
    Zero

    Zero (2004)

    Zero

    02004HD

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    Zero
  • 1968
    Strong Women, Weak Men

    Strong Women, Weak Men (1968)

    Strong Women, Weak Men

    01968HD

    After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become hostesses at a cabaret....

    Strong Women, Weak Men
  • 1999
    Will to Live

    Will to Live (1999)

    Will to Live

    6.31999HD

    It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2...

    Will to Live
  • 1972
    The Iron Crown

    The Iron Crown (1972)

    The Iron Crown

    5.61972HD

    A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night....

    The Iron Crown
  • 1955
    The Wolves

    The Wolves (1955)

    The Wolves

    6.81955HD

    A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families....

    The Wolves
  • 1970
    Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

    Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970)

    Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

    6.91970HD

    Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yam...

    Live Today, Die Tomorrow!