Soundtrack: Isao Tomita

The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Isao Tomita. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.


The Twilight Samurai

2002 · Movie · 129 min. · Japan

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Rie Miyazawa · Nenji Kobayashi · Min Tanaka

Synopsis 19th century Japan. Seibei, a just-widowed samurai, struggles to care for his senile mother and two young daughters. He holds back from a possible remarriage, self-conscious about his poverty. When ordered to kill a skilled rebel swordsman, he can't evade...

7.6

5K votes

7.6

5K votes

Love and Honor

2006 · Movie · 122 min. · Japan

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Takuya Kimura · Rei Dan · Takashi Sasano · Nenji Kobayashi

Synopsis Shinnojo, a low level samurai, lives with his pretty, dutiful and loyal wife Kayo. He has come to find his position in a castle as a food-taster for a feudal lord to be boring and pointless, and talks about opening...

7.3

1K votes

7.3

1K votes

The Hidden Blade

2004 · Movie · 132 min. · Japan

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Takako Matsu · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Synopsis Nagase Masatoshi stars as a samurai, whose adherence to his code of honor is tested by the forces around him. It is mid-nineteenth century Japan, and the way of the samurai is fading, as Western influences and corruption are slowly...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

A Fugitive from the Past

1965 · Movie · 183 min. · Japan

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Sachiko Hidari · Koji Mitsui · Yoshi Kato

Synopsis A successful businessman's murderous past comes back to haunt him when a prostitute recognizes him as a killer.

7.3

50 votes

7.3

50 votes

7.1

593 votes

Kabei: Our Mother

2008 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Tadanobu Asano · Mitsugorô Bandô · Rei Dan

Synopsis Based on childhood days of Teruyo Nogami.

7.1

557 votes

7.1

557 votes

Gakko

1993 · Movie · 128 min. · Japan

7.0

26 votes

7.0

26 votes

About Her Brother

2010 · Movie · 116 min. · Japan

6.6

65 votes

6.6

65 votes

6.5

52 votes

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare

1973 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Keiko Aikawa · Kazuko Ineno · Keizo Kanie

Synopsis Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead. He finds a young woman dead...

Max

6.5

71 votes

6.5

71 votes

Pictures at an Exhibition

1966 · Movie · 39 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Tezuka

Synopsis A series of short animated segments, without dialog, explore major characters of modern society, such as the plastic surgeon, the fashion-obsessed woman, the rumor-monger, and others, leading to a concluding comment on the progress of civilization.

6.5

100 votes

6.5

100 votes

Black Jack (TV Series)

2004 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Satoshi Kuwahara · Macoto Tezuka

Synopsis Black Jack is an "unregistered" doctor with a clouded, mysterious past. He works with his little assistant Pinoko (who has a massive crush on the doctor), dealing with medical cases not very well known, which can be strange, dangerous, or...

6.4

31 votes

6.4

31 votes

Cleopatra: Queen of Sex

1970 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Tezuka · Eiichi Yamamoto

Synopsis Cleopatra is a 1970 Japanese animated film directed by Osamu Tezuka and Eiichi Yamamoto. When the film was released in the United States, American distributors changed the title to Cleopatra: Queen of Sex and released it with a self-applied X...

6.3

94 votes

6.3

94 votes

Tezuka Osamu's Jungle Emperor Leo

1997 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshio Takeuchi

Synopsis Somewhere in East Africa lives a white lion named Leo (Kimba grown up), ruler of the jungle. Leo lives happily with his wife, Riya (Kitty grown up), and their two children, Rune and Rukio. All is peaceful until one day...

6.2

41 votes

6.2

41 votes

The Midnight Parasites (S)

1972 · Movie · 10 min. · Japan

Direction Yoji Kuri

Synopsis A desolate landscape contains a series of surreal creatures, some humanoid while others completely alien. Their lives intermingle, with interactions ranging from docile and symbiotic to excruciatingly violent.

5.6

51 votes

5.6

51 votes

Ribbon no Kishi (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Masami Hata · Osamu Tezuka · Yoshiyuki Tomino · Sadao Tsukioka

Synopsis Princess Sapphire is a princess that has born with a boy's mind and raised as one because of one angel's mistake (kinda mischief) any way there is no way a girl can take the throne so her parents and one...

5.4

359 votes

5.4

359 votes

Janguru taitei (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Eiichi Yamamoto

Synopsis TV Series (1965-1967). 1 Season. 26 Episodes. In Africa during the mid-20th century: In the face of the encroachment of mankind, a white lion, Panja, seeks to give all wild animals of the jungle a safe haven, free from fear....

5.3

191 votes

5.3

191 votes

Black Lizard

1968 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

5.3

32 votes

5.3

32 votes