
Daisuke Katō
1952 1956Flowing
Flowing7.1/101956HDOtsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...
1962A Wanderer's Notebook
A Wanderer's Notebook7.2/101962HDConsidered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...
1959社長太平記
1949Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 16.7/101949HDIemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...
1955Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji7.4/101955HDTragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the...
1954Late Chrysanthemums
Late Chrysanthemums7.3/101954HDWith delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant...
1968Admiral Yamamoto
Admiral Yamamoto8.3/101968HDAs Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese...
1965Sanshiro Sugata
Sanshiro Sugata7/101965HDRemake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo....
1966The Thin Line
The Thin Line7.3/101966HDTashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....
1962The Wiser Age
The Wiser Age7.3/101962HDDrama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
1962Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
1956Sudden Rain
Sudden Rain6.6/101956HDA husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
1960Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Daughters, Wives and a Mother7.1/101960HDSanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...
1958Little Peach
Little Peach5.8/101958HDAnzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named...
1965Five Gents' Trick Book
1963A Woman's Life
A Woman's Life7.1/101963HDA woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
1936Priest of Darkness
Priest of Darkness7/101936HDA boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.
1958Summer Clouds
Summer Clouds7.5/101958HDA war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...
1952Vendetta of a Samurai
Vendetta of a Samurai6.8/101952HDThe famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa...
1966The School of Spies
The School of Spies6.5/101966HDNakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names,...
1951The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji5.5/101951HDGenji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...
1949Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 26.7/101949HDPart 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...
1960The Masterless 47