Movies: Kindai Eiga Kyokai

  • 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
  • 2003
    Owl

    Owl (2003)

    Owl

    72003HD

    A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to stray to their cabin with sex, and kill them. All goes well until a local cop shows up and, then, an o...

    Owl
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1988
    Sakura-tai Chiru

    Sakura-tai Chiru (1988)

    Sakura-tai Chiru

    5.71988HD

    A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing....

    Sakura-tai Chiru
  • 1999
    Adrenaline Drive

    Adrenaline Drive (1999)

    Adrenaline Drive

    7.11999HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1959
    Lucky Dragon No. 5

    Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959)

    Lucky Dragon No. 5

    7.31959HD

    An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the cre...

    Lucky Dragon No. 5
  • 1979
    The Strangling

    The Strangling (1979)

    The Strangling

    4.91979HD

    The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation....

    The Strangling
  • 1969
    Heat Wave Island

    Heat Wave Island (1969)

    Heat Wave Island

    61969HD

    Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitution...

    Heat Wave Island
  • 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
  • 2004
    River of First Love

    River of First Love (2004)

    River of First Love

    6.72004HD

    8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak constitution and lost her husband years ago. She takes care of her son lovingly but sometimes strictly, on...

    River of First Love
  • 1971
    Sweet Secret

    Sweet Secret (1971)

    Sweet Secret

    01971HD

    A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men....

    Sweet Secret
  • 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
  • 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