Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance 1974

6.40

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.

1974

Lady Snowblood

Lady Snowblood 1973

7.54

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.

1973

The Face of Another

The Face of Another 1966

7.77

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

1966

None But the Brave

None But the Brave 1965

6.30

American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations. Told through the eyes of the American and Japanese unit commanders, who must deal with an atmosphere of growing distrust and tension between their men.

1965

Goyokin

Goyokin 1969

7.46

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

1969

Happiness of Us Alone

Happiness of Us Alone 1961

9.00

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.

1961

The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest 1973

6.50

Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estranged relationship.

1973

The Wayside Pebble

The Wayside Pebble 1960

1

In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going well at home, however, where his father does not work leaving the mother to toil . With the boy's family having no money he cannot progress his education and has to drop out of school. A neighbour, who is a bookstore owner, offers the family money to allow the boy to continue his schooling, but the father is too proud to accept and rebuffs the offer forcing the boy to work.

1960

Nami kage

Nami kage 1965

1

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

1965

Hymn to a Tired Man

Hymn to a Tired Man 1968

7.80

Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming.

1968

Sanbaba

Sanbaba 1974

1

A story about being scared of getting old.

1974

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women 1956

6.20

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

1956

The Beast Shall Die

The Beast Shall Die 1974

6.00

Kunihiko Date (Hiroshi Fujioka), a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to take revenge on the men who once drove his father to ruin.

1974

Snow in the South Seas

Snow in the South Seas 1961

1

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

1961

Girls of the Night

Girls of the Night 1961

6.86

In the late 1950's prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this profession they were sent to a reformatory. This is the story of Kuniko, one of the brave women who is released from the reformatory and tries to build a new life.

1961

Bitterness of Youth

Bitterness of Youth 1974

6.30

A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.

1974

Sweet Sweat

Sweet Sweat 1964

1

This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to keep her family together. Her 17-year-old daughter Takeko becomes increasingly upset by her mother's constant drinking and yakuza boyfriend, and runs away from home. Kyo's performance was highly praised.

1964