Hizuru Takachiho

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake...

Shimizu Port of Chivalry

An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza....

Stakeout

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to r...

Stepbrothers

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household w...

The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game

13th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

Shingo's Final Duel

After Aoi Shingo, the illegitimate son of Shogun Yoshimune has gained prominence as the finest swordsman in the...

The Third Shadow Warrior

In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true...

Good-for-Nothing

Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom...

Ken ni kakeru

Zero Focus

One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never...

Samurai of the Great Earth

A film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River".

Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Ghost Ship

Bored Hatamoto film #20

Three-Headed Tower

Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that she marrie...

Haitoku no mesu

The Tragedy of Bushido

A 16-year-old youth is ordered to commit ritual suicide to follow his deceased lord into death and preserve the...

Jakoman and Tetsu

In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. O...

With Wife, Children, and Friends

Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two poli...

The Revenge and the Death

A gritty, noirish gangster saga.

Tokyo Omnibus

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small...

To Your Majesty, The Emperor

A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.

August Moon

Avalanche

Street of Wandering Men

When a group of men from the Hanya clan search his town for a missing geisha, a brave ronin decides to help her...

Passion Fire

The time was the first year of Keio (1865). Upon hearing the news that the Imperial Army was approaching Hida T...

Kyūjin ryokō

1962 Japanese movie

A Matter of Valour

Chushingura has been made into a movie several times before, but this time it will be presented in a widescreen...

Castle of Owls

Movie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, th...

Young Ruddy Warrior: Nobunaga Oda

A dynamic story depicting the rise to power of Oda Nobunaga. The story of a young man on the battlefields of th...

Youth in Fury

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Sh...

A Roaring Trade

Akatsuki no chiheisen

This action drama depicts the conflict between orthodox and new yakuza gangsters.

お役者小僧

The phantom thief, known as the "Actor Kid", who was creating a stir in the Daimyo's mansion, especially in the...

Stories about Jirocho: Ishimatsu and Oiwake Sangoro

Ishimatsu is strong in fights, but weak in relationships with women and enjoys great popularity among them, and...

White Blaze

A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same nam...

Grand Contest

The story of an unusual friendship between a vagabond, masterless samurai and a magistrate.

The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 3: Sword of Revenge

The final, third part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an act...