All Japanese Films in the Criterion Collection

A widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines.

Scout pilots for a fishing company are startled to discover a second Godzilla, whose battle with rival monster Anguirus threatens to destroy Osaka.

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

Dos amigos que presenciaron un asesinato de crimen organizado, son amenazados por la mafia local para que guarden silencio.

In the closing days of WWII, remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain death by starvation.

A prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers.

A celebrity impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote village. When his controlling manager, the woman he loves, follows, the two must reconcile while dodging reporters.

Tras el descubrimiento de King Kong en una isla, es capturado y llevado a Japón, donde escapa del cautiverio y se enfrenta a Godzilla.

A yakuza gang targets the blind masseur Zatoichi after he defeats their group in a wrestling match. Meanwhile a long lost love of Zatoichi's returns to his life.

Zatoichi promete llevar a una doncella sana y salva a casa, pero descubre que dos peligrosas bandas tienen un misterioso interés en la joven.

A convict fresh out of prison, with a handicapped sister, is coerced by a wealthy mob boss into organizing an armored racetrack car heist.

Zatoichi is mistaken for a thief. To clear his name he must find and defeat the real villain.

One is a young, jazz-obsessed Japanese drifter and other is a black American GI on the lam in Tokyo. The two outsiders become outlaws and the movie depicts their growing bond as an alternately absurd and tragic culture clash.

Un huevo gigantesco es arrastrado a la tierra por un tifón en Nagoya. Empresarios codiciosos sue adueñan del huevo y niegan devolverlo a Mothra. De pronto aparece Godzilla, arrastrado por el mismo tifón.

After being wounded in a fight, Zatoichi is nursed to health by a young woman and her father. Now indebted to the family, he works to protect their ferry business from local thugs.

When Zatoichi witnesses the murder of a young mother he promises to deliver the baby to the father. Along the way he gains the help of a reluctant criminal.

La desaparición de una princesa coincide con la llegada de una profetisa que advierte del regreso de Godzilla, Rodan y la llegada de un monstruo del espacio.

The blind swordsman tries to locate a girl's missing father.

In WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.

After Zatoichi learns of his sensei's murder he uncovers a horrible conspiracy involving the local government and crime family.

After Atsushi commits murder, he is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase full of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret.

The blind masseur and swordsman, Zatoichi, searches for proof an imprisoned man's innocence.

Unos alienígenas del Planeta X solicitan a los terrícolas su ayuda para vencer al Monstruo Zero.

A samurai with a high skill in chess makes friends with Zatoichi, who finds that things become peculiar in his presence.