Movies: Bokuzen Hidari

  • 1954
    Seven Samurai

    Seven Samurai (1954)

    Seven Samurai

    8.41954HD

    A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers...

    Seven Samurai
  • 1952
    Ikiru

    Ikiru (1952)

    Ikiru

    8.31952HD

    Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life....

    Ikiru
  • 1965
    Red Beard

    Red Beard (1965)

    Red Beard

    8.11965HD

    Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Re...

    Red Beard
  • 1964
    Three Outlaw Samurai

    Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)

    Three Outlaw Samurai

    7.51964HD

    Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's gua...

    Three Outlaw Samurai
  • 1951
    The Idiot

    The Idiot (1951)

    The Idiot

    6.91951HD

    Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved in turn by Akama. When Akama realizes that he will never have Taeko, his thoughts t...

    The Idiot
  • 1955
    I Live in Fear

    I Live in Fear (1955)

    I Live in Fear

    7.31955HD

    Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides to have him ruled incompetent and Dr. Harada, a Domestic Court cou...

    I Live in Fear
  • 1957
    The Lower Depths

    The Lower Depths (1957)

    The Lower Depths

    7.01957HD

    Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her you...

    The Lower Depths
  • 1965
    Gamera, the Giant Monster

    Gamera, the Giant Monster (1965)

    Gamera, the Giant Monster

    61965HD

    A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a stran...

    Gamera, the Giant Monster
  • 1950
    Scandal

    Scandal (1950)

    Scandal

    6.91950HD

    A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer....

    Scandal
  • 1960
    The Sun's Burial

    The Sun's Burial (1960)

    The Sun's Burial

    6.51960HD

    In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's g...

    The Sun's Burial
  • 1967
    Two in the Shadow

    Two in the Shadow (1967)

    Two in the Shadow

    7.61967HD

    A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown....

    Two in the Shadow
  • 1969
    Red Lion

    Red Lion (1969)

    Red Lion

    6.41969HD

    Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny....

    Red Lion
  • 1955
    Forever a Woman

    Forever a Woman (1955)

    Forever a Woman

    7.41955HD

    Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In the last stage of...

    Forever a Woman
  • 1969
    Madcap Mixup

    Madcap Mixup (1969)

    Madcap Mixup

    01969HD

    Five fellows are taken by the police for bank hold-ups....

    Madcap Mixup
  • 1959
    The Three Treasures

    The Three Treasures (1959)

    The Three Treasures

    5.41959HD

    The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he h...

    The Three Treasures
  • 1961
    20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2

    20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2 (1961)

    20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2

    01961HD

    The second film in the 20 Duels of Young Shingo trilogy directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda....

    20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2
  • 1970
    Shameless School: Tackle Kiss

    Shameless School: Tackle Kiss (1970)

    Shameless School: Tackle Kiss

    01970HD

    Students against teachers in the wildest kiss-stealing, petting-orgy ever....

    Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
  • 1952
    Vendetta of a Samurai

    Vendetta of a Samurai (1952)

    Vendetta of a Samurai

    6.81952HD

    The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa Akira and starring Mifune Toshiro as the famed swordsman who must face his best friend as they are for...

    Vendetta of a Samurai
  • 1970
    Tora-san, His Tender Love

    Tora-san, His Tender Love (1970)

    Tora-san, His Tender Love

    71970HD

    Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches....

    Tora-san, His Tender Love
  • 1965
    Sanshiro Sugata

    Sanshiro Sugata (1965)

    Sanshiro Sugata

    71965HD

    Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of juj...

    Sanshiro Sugata