Atsushi Watanabe

Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection fr...

Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Le...

Yojimbo

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen...

Red Beard

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his fir...

The Lower Depths

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor,...

Dodes'ka-den

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an ima...

Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji

Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carri...

I Live in Fear

An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. Wh...

One Wonderful Sunday

Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase housing, sma...

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in...

Samurai Vagabonds

On New Year's Day 1716, Munenaga of Owari and Yoshinao of Kii were both named as candidates for the title of 8t...

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Shadow Over Fuji

The year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which was an open off...

Iemitsu and Hikoza

A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer...

Typhoon Furor

A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed...

The Tale of Oiwa's Ghost

A samurai plots to reclaim his estranged wife after she leaves him over a murder scandal. When her sister falls...

I, the Executioner

Police detectives investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed s...

大当り男一代

Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon,...

The Scarlet Camellia

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so...

The Acrobats of Death

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is respo...

Yagyu Chronicles 2: The Secret Sword

This is the second film in the popular black and white series about the master swordsman, Yagyu Jubei. When the...

Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2

A young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite with his birth father,...

Lord Mito: All Star Version

In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the shores of S...

Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki

Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

音楽大進軍

A 1943 film.

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in...

A Man's Flower Road of Triumph

Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Ghost Ship

Bored Hatamoto film #20

The Cave of the Vampire Bats

A maiden is murdered by a mysterious ninja, unfortunately two young ladies witness this, good thing the bored L...

The Life of a Horse-Trader

Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yonetaro fell a...

Song of Love

The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.

Ninja Assassins

Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi.

Akuma no kao

Samurai Hawk

1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to...

The Neighbour's Wife and Mine

A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are pl...

Bored Hatamoto: Mysterious Crimson Tower

Bored Hatamoto film #21