Etsushi Takahashi

Oshin

Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4, 1983 to M...

Onihei Hankachō

Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as...

Minamoto no Yoshitsune

The chronicles of the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late Heian and early Kam...

The Mirror of Janus

The series is about a girl suffering from multiple personality disorder.

Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu

After the end of the reign of the second Shogun Hidetada, the country was still in turmoil. Meanwhile, Iemitsu,...

Shogun's Samurai

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son...

Japan's Don

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domest...

The Battle of Okinawa

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial comma...

Japan's Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the governmen...

August Without Emperor

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V...

Keshin

Daizaburo Akiba, a music critic, sets up Kiriko, a young hostess, and refines her to become his ideal woman.

The Gate of Youth Part 2

Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.

The Yoshida School

Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the revers...

The Shootout

A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their s...

Red Lion

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier...

East Meets West

A disgraced warrior planning the murder of a Japanese diplomat, and a ninja in the employ of a navy official ar...

Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?

Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Tak...

The Fixer

Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confusion. But h...

Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they...

Last Friends

Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they be...

Kill!

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local...

Men and War III: The Final Chapter

Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family...

Zatoichi at Large

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he de...

The Human Bullet

A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the a...

The Affair

As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger men. After...

Blood Type: Blue

UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon pan...

Japanese Godfather: Ambition

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with...

Asami Mitsuhiko Mysteries

Crime mysteries from 1987 to 1990 based on Yasuo Uchida's novels starring Yutaka Mizutani.

Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family...

The River with No Bridge

A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to...

Solar Eclipse

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and eve...

Japanese Godfather: Conclusion

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who wil...

Onihei's Detective Records

A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.

カナリヤの唄殺人事件

The Corporation

Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion of Manchuria...

Outlaw Cop

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another...