
5.6
The World’s Most Beautiful Swindlers
IMDb: 5.6 1964 108 min
Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan (“Fumiko’s Five Benefactors” by Hiromichi ...

6.8
Manji
IMDb: 6.8 1964 91 min
The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

7.8
The Ballad of Narayama
IMDb: 7.8 1958 98 min
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced ...

8.3
Sansho the Bailiff
IMDb: 8.3 1954 124 min
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family’s patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.

6.9
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
IMDb: 6.9 1949 85 min
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is ...