Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build…

Many years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the survivors (called hibakusha in Japanese) are still physically and emotionally devastated by the event. Kuroi Ame ni Utarete tells the interlocking…

One day, kindergarten teacher meets a novice magician and together they travel to another city to find love…

Starring Yellow Magic Orchestra and David Brooks Palmer, YMO Propaganda is 1984 Musical film directed by Shin Saito. Originally premiered theatrically throughout Japan in 1984 and is considered by some…

Nobita requests of Doraemon the Moshimo-box and wishes for the world to become a place where the use of magic is possible. Witchcraft replaces science and technology and everyone makes…

The chronicle of the space age written through a certain immortal psionics’s activity.

Based on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta.

A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy’s life and the lives of the Japanese people. Based on…

Naomi is a university student who is leaving for the US to study in a week; Shuichi is a washed-up gumshoe who’s hired by Naomi’s father to bodygard his daughter…

Indestructible to his enemies and irresistible to women, the professional assassin codenamed Golgo 13 is shrouded in mystery and anonymity. If you’re on his hit list, you’re already dead. Always…

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should…

Nobita and his friends under the waters of the Pacific Ocean. Gian and Suneo take Doraemon’s underwater vehicle and travel through the Atlantic Ocean, trying to find a treasure ship….

An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by his fellow villagers.

Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro’s pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a stuntman to make ends meet.

Cobra, a notorious space pirate, is enlisted by bounty hunter Jane to rescue her sister from the strange being known as Crystal Bowie, but then finds himself drawn into a…

Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the…

On his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s real parents died tragically in a plane crash. Shortly thereafter…

This film stays very faithful to the original down to the smallest details, save for the kangaroo-rat that suddenly appears twenty minutes into the movie and subsequently follows Aladdin around,…

Nothing is impossible for Doraemon’s magic pocket, much less when it comes to using their inventions to live the most amazing adventures. Is there a place where no man has…

A troop of children from eight to thirteen, abandoned on an island, struggling for life in the midst of passion fueled by the differences of nationalities. A story in the…

Something Like It (の・ようなもの No Yōna Mono) is a 1981 Japanese film directed by Yoshimitsu Morita.

A short movie of Doraemon was released on August 1, 1981 in Japan. It is a retelling of the famous Japanese fable Momotaro.

Slow na boogie ni shitekure (also known as “Play it, Boogie-Woogie”) is 1981 Drama film directed by Toshiya Fujita, and written by Yoshio Kataoka and Eiichi Uchida , starring Atsuko…

Seven years ago, Lopplc and Morina were playing at a park. Suddenly they felt an earthquake on the Koya Koya Planet. The quake was so massive that the planet was…

Sci-fi meets martial arts in this lively chronicle of a warrior pilot who returns to his native planet to find it controlled by a wicked tyrant Captain Kogar. He also…

Short film chronicling human progress, or lack of it.

‘Ki or Breathing’ is a spare concoction assembled from slow motion shots of nature and set to a score by the much-acclaimed Tohru Takemitsu.

Second live action “Barefoot Gen” sequel.

Remi, an orphan kid gets hired out to a traveling street entertainer Vitalis when her foster parents fall on hard times.

Doraemon: Nobita’s Dinosaur is a 1980 animated film based on the popular manga and anime series, Doraemon. It was released in 1980, one year after the premiere of the TV…

Ninth movie in the Torakku Yarō series. Momojiro travels to Nagano to take Jonathan’s place driving logging freight through the mountains. There he meets the wild and beautiful Natsu.

Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.

In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo’s underworld.

UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new “blue-bloods” being persecuted by…

Based on the novel by Osamu Dazai and distributed by ATG. The story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese…

The Iron Cross Army are sabotaging oil-tankers with the help of their monster, the Sea-Devil, a semi-mechanical anthropomorphic swordfish with an ability to shoot torpedoes from its mouth. Spider-Man employs…

Five young superhero ninja employed by the International Science Organization oppose an international terrorist organization of technologically advanced villains who are trying to control Earth’s natural resources.

The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother rather than the Emperor. King Kaiba sends out eight Liabe…

The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap victim becomes embroiled in a vicious power struggle between two large corporations over…