Hajime Izu Movies

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around the...

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Professor Daidōji has developed a gravity machine called the GX Device. Unfortunately, Shocker wants it; so they attack the professor and destroy his...

A sinister organization launches a wave of audacious attacks in an attempt to gain world domination. Commanded by the evil Professor Gill, masked andr...

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known bein...

Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history relea...

The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.

1950 Japanese film

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes underc...

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and th...

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The fi...