The Couch Critic Logo
The Couch CriticCouch Critic
TrendingMoviesTV ShowsListsReviewsWhat to Watch
LogoThe Couch Critic

Menu

TrendingMoviesTV ShowsListsReviewsWhat to Watch

© 2026 The Couch Critic

The Couch Critic Logo

The Couch Critic

Your go-to destination for honest movie and TV show reviews from a passionate community of critics. Join the conversation today.

Explore

  • Trending
  • Movies
  • TV Shows
  • Reviews
  • Lists
  • Games
  • About Us

Categories

  • Popular Movies
  • Trending Now
  • Upcoming
  • Airing Today
  • Movie Genres
  • TV Genres

Community

  • Guides
  • What to Watch

Legal

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
  • Cookie Policy
  • RSS Feed
© 2026 The Couch Critic.•Built by Hayden Thorn
Cookie Settings

This application uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.

Shintoho Company

Shintoho Company

JP

Movies

Browse 335 movies from Shintoho Company

Filter by media type
Filter by genre
Sort media results
Stray Dog poster
Movie

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.

Stray Dog

Oct 1949

Ghost Cat of Nabeshima poster
Movie

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.

Ghost Cat of Nabeshima

Aug 1949

Brutal Woman poster
Movie

Tired of poverty, Keiko leaves home and soon takes a lover, but leads a wanton life without paying heed to his advice. However, the younger sister Yoshiko, is an innocent and kind girl. One day, with the sudden death of their mother in a car accident, Keiko learns that she and Yoshiko are actually stepsisters, and that she is the daughter of a murderer. She now plans extortion from Yoshiko's true father who is the president of a well-known trading company.

Brutal Woman

Jun 1960

Lust of the White Serpent poster
Movie

A work with the motif of a legend that remains in the mountain villages of Shinshu and Hida. A white snake helped by a young man transfers to a girl's body, longing for him and burning in an endless passion.

Lust of the White Serpent

Sep 1960

Shin ono ga tsumi poster
Movie

20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).

Shin ono ga tsumi

Oct 1956

Haunted Cave poster
Movie

The treasures of the Aoyamas were buried at the bottom of the sea when a large earthquake occurred years before. Yumi Aoyama is the only person who knows the location, but her family dies one after another through curious incidents, as if the family were under a curse. Yumi is surprised by the ghost of a dead sister who looks the same as the grim figure who jumped into the old well alter stabbing herself with a sword. Fearful that a similar fate awaits her, Yumi seeks the help of her friend Kyoko. Later the ghost appears before Kyoko and her fiancé, Detective Nonomiya. In a haunted cave, Kyoko and Yumi are in deadly peril from those who seek treasures of the Aoyamas.

Haunted Cave

Jul 1959

Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo poster
Movie

A samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his fortune, the magical tanuki is determined to protect its rescuer.

Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo

Jul 1957

The Cock Crows Twice poster
Movie

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

The Cock Crows Twice

Nov 1954

Trouble Over Swords and Women:  A Woman's Mind poster
Movie

Trouble Over Swords and Women: A Woman's Mind

Nov 1951

The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin poster
Movie

In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the River Kitakami. At night, the villagers of Shirayama gather round a blazing fire, and utter incantations while an old headman tempers a sword...

The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin

Sep 1959

The Horizon Glitters poster
Movie

5 criminals organize a jailbreak in search of a cache of stolen diamonds.

The Horizon Glitters

Mar 1961

Dispersed Clouds poster
Movie

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Osen, a middle-aged maid from a nearby inn, takes her in and nurses her, assisted by Dr. Minami, a young physician who diagnoses her illness as a mild case of pneumonia. With Masako in good hands and needing a few days to recuperate, her classmates continue their tour. Masako’s recovery, however, is hampered by her spoiled and immature nature and her determination to punish the world for the loss of her mother.

Dispersed Clouds

Nov 1951

Revenge of the Pearl Queen poster
Movie

Kizaki, an upstart at a trading company has one more assignment for the day before meeting his lovely girlfriend, Natsuki for a date. Little does he know that he's walking straight into a trap set up by his boss, Asanuma and his murderous right hand man. The next day Kizaki finds himself framed for the murder of the company president, and the robbing of the company safe. Natsuki innocently waves goodbye to her loved ones as the boat sails only find herself caught in Asanuma's evil scheming and the object of his lust. In a desperate attempt to escape, she falls to the watery depths. When we next see her she has washed ashore like a siren in the nude on a deserted island inhabited by five castaways who fight each other for her. She learns there's a rich wealth of clams underwater and eventually comes into a large fortune in pearls. Once rescued, she returns to Japan with revenge on her mind.

Revenge of the Pearl Queen

Jul 1956

Flirtation in Spring poster
Movie

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

Flirtation in Spring

Apr 1949

Extreme Lust! Doing a Married Wife poster
Movie

Akiko, a married woman, suddenly becomes strangely frightened by the ringing of the telephone. Her husband, Nozawa, notices her strange behaviour and takes her to a psychiatric clinic. Through hypnotherapy, Akiko begins to tell the truth. A tragedy that began through an unexpected reunion with a man named Numata, a business partner of Nozawa's company.

Extreme Lust! Doing a Married Wife

Feb 2009

Queen Bee poster
Movie

Earlier version or Prequel to Queen Bee and the School for Dragons.

Queen Bee

Feb 1958

The Life of Oharu poster
Movie

During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

The Life of Oharu

Apr 1952

Chikan tômei ningen me-me-me: Part 2 poster
Movie

Pink film by Kôji Seki.

Chikan tômei ningen me-me-me: Part 2

Oct 1977

Ghost Story of Yotsuya poster
Movie

This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend about a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and power.

Ghost Story of Yotsuya

Jul 1959

Jigoku poster
Movie

A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.

Jigoku

Jul 1960

  • More pages
Page 1 of 17