Art Theatre Guild Popular Movie

A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noriko Kurosawa

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fumio Watanabe

Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film - a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kantarō Suga

An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideaki Sasaki

In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanori Yokoo

In late 60s Tokyo, Eddie, a young drag queen, is the favourite of Gonda, the owner of the bar where she works. This relationship provokes the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinnosuke Ikehata

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Tsukasa

A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kuniko Ishii

A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the five-day...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Youki Kudoh

A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Minori Terada

The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsuya Kobayashi

A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

Two university students from Kyoto decide to swap partners and spend the night in an isolated motel. However, one of the couples is attacked....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Kishida

The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

The ascetic houseboy of a Japanese lawyer bears witness to the secretive sexual relationship between the lawyer's assistant and the maid, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saburo Shinoda

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Do-yun Yu

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II