M4ufree JAPAN Movies

Nihon no yoru to kiri 1960 Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists movement in Japan

Hungry Soul, Part II 1956 The conclusion to Yuzo Kawashimas Hungry Soul

Kogitsune Heren 2006 Leaving school for the day, seven year old Taichi finds a baby fox alongside a road in rural Hokkaido The two bond, and Taichi decides to leave the fox with the police as a lost item The policeman on duty takes a reluctant Taichi

Osomatsu san 2015 The adventures of young Osomatsu Matsuno and his five sextuplet brothers

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum 1955 An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies or Wild Chrysanthemums, as they are described in the title, or starworts, as they are referred to in the subtitles, and thinks back to when he was f

O Roshiya koku suimu tan 1992 This epic story starts out interesting, if rather gently paced, and gradually builds up to involving and terrific The scenery and cinematography range from grim to spectacular, and are always effective The Japanese actor

Yabanjin no youni 1985 Young writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing the head yakuza, must find a way out of trouble

Koi suru nichiyobi watashi Koishita 2007 Nagisa, a high school girl who has been given only 3 months to live Without telling her widowed father where shes going, she sets out from the city to the small town where she was born She recalls her childhoo

Illusion of Blood 1965 A samurai warrior is haunted by the spirit of his first wife

Himiko 1974 A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk

Go 2001 Sugihara, born in Japan but with North Korean parents, falls in love with a Japanese girl after changing from a North Korean school to a Japanese school His boxer dad teaches him boxing skills used a lot

For Kayako 1985 A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean

Flame and Women 1967 A sterile man arranges for his disapproving wife to receive artificial insemination, after which she starts nourishing a strong desire for the childs biological father

Fine, Totally Fine 2008 Approaching thirty, three eccentric male friends try hard to realize their dreams and have their aspirations come to fruition In their case, it is even more difficult than usual Despite being mates the three are quite differen

Dokuritsu gurentai 1959 When Sergeant Okubos brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and seeks out his brothers killer The command is wiped out by Chinese forces and

Canary 2004 Based on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system, CANARY tells the moving story of two children, each abandoned by their families, who come together in the wake

Brothel No 8 1974 A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan

Ballad of Orin 1977 A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on peoples behavior

Alone on the Pacific 1963 Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination

A Colt Is My Passport 1967 The melancholy, homely Kamimura is a hit man who takes a job to kill a mob boss whos gotten greedy The rival gang lord who hires Kamimura and his driver Shun pays them and sets them up in a hotel for a night while arranging

47 Ronin 1994 A group of disgraced samurai plan a decade long revenge against a corrupt lord

Yokiro 1983 1933 20 years before, Katsuzo was in love with a geisha who gave him a daughter They tried to run away together but they were caught and the woman was killed under his eyes Now he is a zegen aka a pimp who sells girls to the Yokiro, the b

Sukurappu hebun 2005 A cop, a sanitation worker and a pharmacist intersect on a late bus ride thats hijacked by a suicidal political flunky Shingo is a miserable young desk cop bucking for homicide division Tetsu is a restroom cleaning attendant who

Carmen 1945 1988 During the post World War II occupation of Japan, a group of women forced to resort to prostitution band together in the ruins to save up for a dancehall

A Japanese Tragedy 1953 Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow, does what she can to keep her daughter Utako and son Seiichi safe, fed, and sheltered By 1953, its clear that the children, as they enter adulthoo

Osama 2003 The Taliban are ruling Afghanistan, they being a repressive regime especially for women, who, among other things, are not allowed to work This situation is especially difficult for one family consisting solely of three women representing t

Princess from the Moon 1987 Based on a centuries old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter Not the same as the original tale, though, in which the girl was a fairy from

Nichiren to moko daishurai 1958 Legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren Kazuo Hasegawa returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight the Mongol invaders during the 1200s by creating a new form of Buddhism He runs afoul of t

Hunter in the Dark 1979 Yataro Tanigawa, a one eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter clan conflict Tanigawa quickly rises in stature

Come Back Anytime 2021 For more than forty years, ramen master Masamoto Ueda has been serving his legendary Tokyo style ramen to a community of regulars who are not only his customers, but true friends

Kono mune ippai no ai wo 2005 A group of people suddenly find themselves 20 years in the past Hiroshi, a 30 year old businessman, regard it as an opportunity to help a young woman from his past, the memory of whom he has always cherished

Gakko II 1996 AOYAMA Ryuhei must deal with the fact that two of his students at a special high school for the learning impaired Takashi and Yuya have just disappeared He set out to look for them with his fellow teacher, KOBAYASHI Daisuke After search

A Class to Remember 1993 At a night school a diverse group of students ranging from teenagers to the elderly, smart to the under developed and of different races have been assembled to study and finally hopefully graduate The assignment to graduate i

Toku no sora ni kieta 2007 Grade schooler Ryonosuke Kamiki Ryonosuke has just moved to a small town with his father Miura Tomokazu, a government official overseeing the areas unpopular airport construction project Ryonosuke finds a new friend in milk

The Idiot 1951 Kinji Kameda, a war veteran, was almost executed in a military process, that was until a last minute reprieve found him innocent of the charge The resulting turmoil, spent in a VA hospital, led to him suffering mentally, he now clinica

Yamato Takeru 1994 After killing his brother, Prince Yamato is banished from his fathers kingdom until he can bring his dangerous powers under control On his journey, he meets and joins with the magical priestess Oto, and together they go to fight ag

Bye Bye Jupiter 1984 While extracting water from the Martian polar ice caps, ancient carvings are uncovered describing an alien spacecraft crashing into Jupiter, postponing plans to turn Jupiter into a second Sun

A Class to Remember 4 Fifteen 2000 Bored with school, 15 year old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000 year old cedar tree on distant Yakushima Island Through his journey, Daisuke meets a number of interesting people, includin

Gakko III 1998 A widow who has raised her autistic son alone loses her job and begins attending a technical college She meets others looking for a new start in life, including a former salary man with whom she begins a furtive romance

Teacher Deer 1978 NA

Shoguns Shadow 1989 Iemitsu, Tokugawa Shogun III, hates his eldest son Takechiyo all his love is given to his younger son Tokumatsu One day, he orders Takechiyo to an initiation rite in Yedo todays Tokio Takechiyo lives far away under the surveillanc

Peace 2010 What is peace What is coexistence And what are the basis for them PEACE is a visual essay like observational documentary, which contemplates these questions by observing the daily lives of people and cats in Okayama city, Japan, where life

Meoto zenzai 1955 Toyoda Shiros award winner Marital Relations Meoto zenzai, 1955 is one of the directors many adaptations from literary works, this one from a novel by Oda Sakunosuke The film was quite popular with critics, and received both a seque

Jenifa 2004 Jennifer is a European girl who speaks Japanese a little She arrives to the funeral in temple in Japanese countryside and meets a boy there The boy is a juvenile delinquent and works his punishment in temple Jennifer likes this silent boy

Ori no naka no hoshigaru onnatachi 1987 Shinobu Himeno Shinobu Wakana, gets thrown in the clink after a botched robbery and once there she suffers all the indignities that the other inmates and the guards throw at her Pretty much a by the numbers WIP

Toi ippon no michi 1978 Follows railway workers struggles to create unions during a period of economic growth and increased automation

Sumo Do, Sumo Dont 2022 Ryota Moriyama, a senior at Kyoritsu University, receives a job offer at a first rate company but gets dumped by Saki Nishino His professor tells him that he can graduate on the condition that he joins the sumo club and compet

Saint Seiya Legend of Sanctuary 2014 Warriors called Saints are the champions of hope who have always appeared since the Age of Myth whenever evil threatens the world In this present day story, many years since the long fought Holy War we find Saori