Yasujiro Ozu's final film is also his final masterpiece, the gently heartbreaking story of a man's dignified resignation to both life's ever-shifting currents and society's gradual modernization. Though widower Shuhei Hirayama has been living comfortably for years with his grown daughter, a series of events leads him to accept and encourage her marriage and departure.

A young executive hunts down his father's killer in director Akira Kurosawa's scathing The Bad Sleep Well. Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet and American film noir to chilling effect in exposing the corrupt boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan.

"What is it with this forest?" That is the question for disgraced Tokyo detective Goro Yabuike (Koji Yakusho, Shall We Dance), who finds himself embroiled in a tense struggle revolving around a gnarled, forbidding tree. Goro has fled Tokyo after a hostage crisis escalates into tragic violence.

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking in this seminal "sun tribe" (taiyozoku) film from director Ko Nakahira. Adapted from the controversial novel by Shintaro Ishihara - and critically savaged for its lurid portrayal of the postwar sexual revolution among Japan's young and privileged.

In this early noir from the great Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune bursts onto the screen as a volatile, tuberculosis-infected criminal who strikes up an unlikely, unhealthy relationship with Takashi Shimura's jaded physician. Set in and around the muddy swamps and back alleys of postwar Tokyo, Drunken Angel (Yoidore tenshi) is an evocative, moody snapshot of a troubled time and place, featuring one of the director's most memorably violent climaxes.

Relive the Golden Age of Japanese monster films with this pair of titanic adventures! First, Daiei's fire-breathing flying turtle Gamera returns to battle a horned beast, Monster X, released from a stone statue moved from Wester Island. Facing off in Osaka, they create a demolition derby of destruction you won't soon forget!

The saga of Gamera continues, and his opponents keep getting weirder and wilder! It's the Return of the Giant Monsters when giant vampire bat Gaos squares off against everyone's favorite giant turtle, and in order to weaken the fearsome foe, humans devise a giant record turntable with a large vat of synthetic human blood!

Yukio (Masahiro Motoki) enjoys a seemingly successful life with his family, including a beautiful but fragile wife whom he met under strange circumstances by a river. However, everything changes one night with the arrival of terrifying stranger who looks just like him... with a terrifying secret that will change their lives forever.

In 1966, the Daiei Motion Picture Co. released a trilogy of period films that centered around a giant stone idol that comes to life to defeat evil warlords terrorizing innocent villagers in feudal Japan. Two years later, American-International Television released two of these films, Majin, Monster of Terror (originally Daimajin) and Return of Giant Majin (originally Daimajin Ikaru), to American television, professionally dubbed into English by Titan Productions.

Hana and Alice are inseparable friends - until Miyamoto, a cute boy they spot at a train station, comes between them. Tricking Miyamoto into believing that he is suffering from amnesia, Hana claims that she is his girlfriend. A baffled Miyamoto struggles to regain his memories as he is drawn to the prettier Alice. When the bond deepens, the girls' lifelong relationship begins to fray... propelling them apart.

He's Hanzo "The Razor " Itami, the incorruptible and uncompromising samurai cop, and he packs a weapon more devastating than any sword (just ask any of the female suspects he "interrogates"). From the creator of the Lone Wolf and Cub series comes this legendary 1970s trilogy based on Kazuo Koike's classic mangas starring Shintaro Katsu (Zatoichi) as Hanzo.

Following the collapse of his clan, unemployed samurai Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to commit ritual suicide on his property. Iyi's clansmen, believing the desperate ronin is merely angling for charity, try to force him to eviscerate himself - but they have underestimated his honor and his past.