Soundtrack: Isao Tomita
The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Isao Tomita. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.
Titles found: 45
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
Planeta imaginario (TV Series)
1983 · Series · 60 min. · Spain
Direction Miquel Obiols · Ángel Alonso
Cast Teresa Soler · Josep Maria Gimeno · Joan Faneca · Joan Cussó
7.1
593 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
7.0
26 votes
Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
1970 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan
Direction Kenji Misumi
Cast Shintarô Katsu · Tatsuya Nakadai · Reiko Ohara · Masayuki Mori
6.9
60 votes
6.9
60 votes
About Her Brother
2010 · Movie · 116 min. · Japan
Direction Yôji Yamada
Cast Ryo Kase · Yû Aoi · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Yuriko Ishida
6.6
65 votes
6.6
65 votes
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
1969 · Movie · 128 min. · Japan
Direction Eiichi Yamamoto
6.5
52 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...
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
Zatoichi Meets the One Armed Swordsman
1971 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan
Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Cast Shintarô Katsu · Wang Yu · Watako Hamaki · Michie Terada
6.4
48 votes
6.4
48 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
Direction Kinji Fukasaku
Cast Akihiro Miwa · Isao Kimura · Kikko Matsuoka · Jun Usami
5.3
32 votes
5.3
32 votes