Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha

In the second part of Masaki Kobayashi's epic trilogy, Kaji is tortured by the military police and sent to the front to fight. As he struggles to survive, he proves to be a superb soldier and eventually leads troops on an important mission. Kaji, a conscientious objector, also helps his friend defect to Russia.

A widowed high school teacher finds that the more he tries to do what is best for his son's future, the more they are separated.

Set two years after the final episode of the Fullmetal Alchemist tv series, this film picks up with Edward Elric's attempts to rediscover the alchemical powers that once he had, enabling him to return to his world. Stuck in the parallel realm of Earth, Elric has lost the powers that brought him here, but has taken up the study of rocketry in the hopes of regaining them. He is aided by Alphonse, a young man who bears a striking resemblance to the brother...

The great Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu is best known for the stately, meditative domestic dramas he made after World War II. But during his first decade at Shochiku studios, he dabbled in many genres--including the crime film, which resulted in this trio of magnificently shot and edited silents. Heavily influenced in narrative and visual style by the American movies that Ozu adored but already envincing the compassion and confident precision of...

The Mamiya family is seeking a husband for their daughter, Noriko, but she has ideas of her own.

Minor god Yato is down on his luck. Fed up with his slacker lifestyle, his partner abruptly quits. He has no money, no worshippers, and no shrine to call home. But just when things are starting to seem hopeless, a bus accident forces him to cross paths with Hiyori Iki, a sweet and perky high school girl. After the accident, Hiyori's soul has a bad habit of slipping out of her body, and after enlisting Yato's help to get her back to normal, she begins...

A visit from her grandchildren and the discovery of a half-American relative cause an elderly woman to relive her memories of the atomic bomb that fell on Nagasaki.

Satiric comedy in which two young brothers refuse to talk until their parents agree to buy them a television set. Set in a 1950s residential suburb of Tokyo.

Three hundred years in the future, the landscape of the world has been drastically rewritten. Agito, the son of an aged hero, inadvertently sets in motion the destruction of all that is left when he revives the young Toola from her timeless sleep.

This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin, a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable...