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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 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
  • 1977
    The Life of Chikuzan

    The Life of Chikuzan (1977)

    The Life of Chikuzan

    8.31977HD

    A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan....

    The Life of Chikuzan
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1962
    Human

    Human (1962)

    Human

    6.81962HD

    The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out....

    Human
  • 1995
    A Last Note

    A Last Note (1995)

    A Last Note

    71995HD

    A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring various stories and news of death and the past...

    A Last Note
  • 1980
    Nurse's Husband

    Nurse's Husband (1980)

    Nurse's Husband

    01980HD

    “Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh. Keiko even had to work on the first night after her marriage. Ten years later, the married couple is still at it. Yauso tends to...

    Nurse's Husband